3D no better than 2D and gives filmgoers headaches

[Nasir]

I go to a movie every chance I get, and usually it has to have body count, special effects and whatever else ( OK, I will say it, gratuitous sex and violence ) to take my mind off my customer problems with the machines I repair. And, the screen is BIG and the sound LOUD, nothing at all like what my good neighbors are used to by now!!
So bring on 4D ( Spy Kids movie with 3D glasses and a smell card, from what I gather ..... ) and entertain me please!!
Conan the Barbarian was better presented in 3D than Captain America, but being the holiday season, the queues are much bigger then my patience, otherwise it would have probably been a new world record of watching three 3D movies in 3 days!!!
I am not a movie critic, but some films just take your breath away, and compel one to comment to people about it, for me they are just a way to block out the world for a couple of hours, just like going to the gym ( where I spend the best part of an hour in the sauna/jacuzzi/turkish bath ).

[markw]

I go to a movie every chance I get, and usually it has to have body count, special effects and whatever else ( OK, I will say it, gratuitous sex and violence ) to take my mind off my customer problems with the machines I repair. And, the screen is BIG and the sound LOUD, nothing at all like what my good neighbors are used to by now!!
So bring on 4D ( Spy Kids movie with 3D glasses and a smell card, from what I gather ..... ) and entertain me please!!

This is all entertainment, cotton candy for the mind. If it takes you away from the harsh realities of everyday life, then more power to it.

After all, this isn't brain surgery where someones life is resting on it. It exists to give us a few giggles and/or thrills and if one cannot extend them some literary license and suspend belief for two hours, well, then they deserve to be dissatisfied. IF finding flaws in life is their biggest turh-on, well, I'd rather spend my time enjoying life than spend all my time trying to find every flaw in it.

Unless one deals with this as a profession, all this nit-picking and sneering at a less-than-perfect simulation is not unlike debating which nudie magazine provides the most realistic simulation of a sexual experience. It may show a lot of dedicated effort, but to what avail? It still ain't real, and it never will be!

While I'm no fan of 3D, I have no problem with those who like it. And as long as they don't stop releasing 2D in favor of 3D, I have no problem, but I really think 4D will be easier to implement in the home.

BTW, my favorite 3D scene was the one in "The A-Team" where the inmates were watching the movie with the red/blue glasses. That was one heckuva effect. (Pssssst... I saw it in 2D.)