Ghost Rider: Oh now THAT'S annoying!

The fact that someone can make money selling glasses that make things 2D should really tell them something lol


As to the "well we see in 3D" nonsense that someone tried to make that I'm not going to go back and quote. The problem is precisely that we do see in 3d and what they are claiming is 3D isn't... 3D is created by our eyes seeing two images and then blending them together... but not just that. We also have other things that gives us 3D perception such as when I move my eyes and ears tell my brain that my location has moved and maps me in where ever i am on a map... Headaches are likely caused by these two factors clashing along with eye strain in general. In other words when you watch a 3D film your brain is fighting with itself because the it's not 3D it's the illusion of 3D and so when you move your head the perspective doesn't move which then causes a "hey what the heck?" thing in your brain... likewise when a scene rapidly shifts and changes perspectives your ears are going "He hasn't moved!" but your eyes are again telling your brain the opposite. This constant switching on and off of which sense you can trust while your brain is also saying you can't trust either is likely why people get headaches.

true 3D can only occur in a per person environment so that the image can move to match your perspective... which would be awesome, but we're never going to see it because that would be insanely expensive to film something from every angle in 3D and then have that streamed to a something that tracks your head motion and then produces the appropriate image...That's with todays technology...

Real 3D will exist soon enough through holograms that they already have semi-working Altered reality gadgets and virtual reality...

As to why they are doing it... it's basically to charge more because they are dying... They're on life support as it is now with distribution being so much better and home video and audio equipment being so much better. It's part of a system that is around just to feed into obscuring the reality of that whole industry. That era of theaters is over.

I used to think downloading movies off the internet for free was wrong, but now with the way Hollywood is making everything 3D just to charge more money, my opinion is changing.

Not sure what I'll do if I find myself thinking it's okay.

As for the pointlessness of 3D or overt catering to it in movies, I finally got around to seeing on DVD the mocap/cgi A Christmas Carol from a couple of years ago. Boy did that have scene after scene of pointless in your face 3D (SCTV Count Floyd 3D - OOO, SCARY!) as if the movie was part of a theme park's 3D motion ride.

For the price that we paid on the last 3d movie we saw we kept the friggin' glasses. Will be reusing them in the future, if there is a future.

The 3-d experience ruined alot of the motion we were expecting to see, blurring out millions of dollars worth of special effects, cg and detail.

Alot of the scenes, motion was so obscure and difficult to tell what was going on, had we not already seen it in 2-d we would have been lost.

Friggin' Star Wars. Bleh.

We are gonna pass on 3-d Ghost Rider.

I should have spent the money on another months sub but baby had cabin fever and I can't win any arguments with baby.

edit: the opening logos were better 3-d than the movie!

If the people I met at the last hero summit are any indication of what the people are like in this forum, then I'd just like to say as a community we whine about a lot (and I mean A LOT) of QoL issues. "I don't like 3D because it's gimmicky" or "it makes my head hurt" or "I'm an autumn and the glasses are clearly Tropic chic." I absolutely identify with other nerds. I have no compunctions admitting I am one but with that being said if I were to complain this much about such banal minutiae around my friends, they'd cave my chest in and it would be for my own good. If you don't like it, that's all well and good and to say so is also fine. But to say it's stupid because you can't enjoy it like the rest of the populace can is petty.

I'm reminded of Louis C.K.'s bit about folks who moan because their flight was delayed or they had to taxi for prolonged periods.

"I had to sit on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh my god, really? What happened then, did you fly through the air like a bird, incredibly? Did you soar into the clouds, impossibly? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight and then land softly on giant tires that you couldn't even conceive how they ******* put air in them?...You're sitting in a chair in the sky. You're like a Greek myth right now."

LOL seriously, I want to say sardonically, "Really? The glasses are clumsy? Even though they give those photographic images depth and literally add a new dimension to story telling? Take a step back and gain a little prespective!"

the technology is definitely not perfect. Saying people are whining when they are reasonably voicing their opinions and experiences after they gave up money, well... that's just hostile.

why so hostile?

I wouldn't say I feel hostility towards anyone per se despite the tone of my previous post. And like I said if you don't like 3D, I can understand that. But ever since 3D became the trend a few years ago folks on these boards have cursed it to no end. I, for one, don't understand the fuss. In most cases where 3D is available so is a 2D version, yet these same people still hate that the rest of the general public opt to see things in 3D. It's like staying in because you hate the cold but it's not enough because still you feel the need to curse the folks who have elected to play in the snow.

Only theatre I like to go to only has it in 3-D. No 2-D option available at all. I generally try to support the generes/films I like by seeing them in the theatre, since that's what most bean-counters still rely on as a metric of success.

As a result, I will NOT be seeing it in their theatre, and will buy it when it comes out on DvD for much cheaper than the ammount I'd pay in admission, and in the format I want to see it in... as often as I want... on my huge-*** TV screen that gives the same effect as a theater when all the lights are out as far as I'm concerned.

Not whining about it one bit. Just stating a fact, and throwing in my opinion on it since there's a thread about it.

Saw the movie myself today with friends. Wasn't great cinema by any stretch of the imagination, but I had fun, and that's what I paid for. Was certainly better... well, less dumb... than the first one.

Saw it in 2D. As for the 3D thing, I won't pay to go see a 2-hour migraine, and I won't pay to see a two hour movie after paying to convert it to a non-migraine. If theaters want my money, I will always have the option. If they decide that doesn't matter, I'll not be wasting my time.