So as I mentioned last night, yesterday we went to see Alice in Wonderland and low and behold, it was in 3d.
And I’ve got to admit that I’m just a little confused by the push that 3d has been getting – a healthy bit in the last couple of years, but even more so here in 2010 already. It seems like every other big name movie to hit the screen has a 3d version, kinda like the one we just saw, which simply leads me to wonder … why??? I mean, at least in the last couple of years, a movie in “3d” had maybe ten or fifteen minutes of actual 3d (usually the key action sequence), but Alice was entirely in 3d, which frankly just seemed like too much.
What’s worse – “the latest buzz” from the tech center is that 3d is expected to be the next big thing, a la what comes after HD, but I’m just not seeing it.
First of all, watching two hours of 3d Alice in the theater ended up giving me a nasty headache that ended up lasting most of the night.
Secondly – who wants to sit around their own living room wearing 3d glasses?!
To me, 3d is a gimmick, and until it actually gets interactive (think VR), it always will be. And that’s fine for theme park attractions or even those action-packed movie sequences where I feel like Optimus Prime is kicking ass right all around me, but it just doesn’t have any appeal to me beyond that short-term, gimmicky phase. Besides, although you can definitely argue that 3d technology has gotten considerably better over the years, it still doesn’t bring the impact that, say, high definition brought to our living rooms. I mean, the difference is clear as night and day, to the point where years ago before there was much of any content at all, us early adopters would sit around watching nature documentaries on The Discovery Channel just because it looked absolutely incredible in HD!
I just don’t see that with 3d, though, and I for one certainly won’t be running out to buy a new 3d television anytime soon … if ever. Give me a beautiful-looking flat screen that’s approaching sizes to make my living room feel like my own personal theater and I’d much rather go that route instead. If I want 3d, I’ll go watch Muppet*Vision over at Disney World… 😛