OlasDAlmighty said:
Alright... so my problems with 3D.
1. Manipulation. Tickets to see a 3D movie are significantly more expensive in my region than tickets to see the regular version of the same movie. A friend of mine is a manager of a local theater, and he admits that they've been making money hand-over-fist since they cut down on the number of standard showtimes in order to get people to pay for 3D tickets. Every theater in my area has followed suit.
2. Manipulation, Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. Everyone seems to point at Avatar as the champion of modern 3D films. Yet, when Avatar came out on DVD/Blu-Ray you couldn't get the 3D Blu-Ray for it. Why? Because the film distributor had a deal with Panasonic at the time. The only way to get a 3D Blu-Ray of Avatar (other than auction sites and whatnot) in my region was to buy a Panasonic 3D TV. If you bought a Sony, you were shit outta luck. I have no idea if the 3D Blu-Ray for Avatar is more readily available in retail stores now, but that was a business practice I really wasn't too fond of back then. Especially when I had to explain it to customers at my Best Buy who would inevitably be angry about the situation.
3. 3D TVs. I don't know how much this has changed, as I haven't been following the technology since I left Best Buy, but the 3D TVs we had really weren't very good for anything
but 3D movies. They also forced you to buy the glasses, which were incredibly expensive for such a flimsy item. If you were going to have company over, you better hope you have enough glasses, or someone's gonna get stuck watching a blurry mess, because the TVs themselves don't come with very many pairs. They were also pretty prohibitively expensive, despite the fairly small selection of movies that actually were made for them.
4. Motion sickness, vision problems, etc. If theaters start phasing out standard showtimes, or relegating them to the "off hours," people that get ill or physically uncomfortable from watching 3D movies are going to be stuck either dealing with it or just abandoning going to theaters all together.
5. 3D Re-releases. This one might be seen as kind of petty, but I can't stand it when older movies are re-released into theaters for 3D. In many instances it sounds like the 3D either wasn't very good or simply added nothing, and was likely just an excuse to bleed more money out of fans. The biggest example I can think of for this is when Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was re-released in 3D. There's a midnight showing review of it by the Cinema Snob that goes into quite a bit of detail about how obvious the movie was as a quick cash cow.
There's probably more that I can think of, but I'm supposed to be working right now, so I should probably pretend to do some work for a little bit.