http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/ Engadget Comments for Roger Ebert gives 3D thumbs down, shocking headlines two thumbs up http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/Color is so superfluous and contributes nothing to the movie-viewing experience. It's just a way to tack on a few extra dollars to the ticket price.

HD contributes nothing...

You could theoretically do this for every advancement in film technology. It's still young, I think we'll be impressed with 3D very soon.]]>May 2nd 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
3D should have waited until we had the right technology (no glasses, better viewing angles). Higher framerates are quite important to making video feel more natural -- I was playing with a 120fps webcam the other day, and the difference was astounding!]]>May 2nd 2010 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/There are improvements to be made. But right now, for most movies, I'd rather a normal movie than a 3D one. ]]>May 2nd 2010 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/I agree, I'm not a fan of 3d movies because they just give me a bad headache and for some reason makes my left eye water. Because of that I noticed during a good portion of Clash of the Titans 3D that it was mostly 2D, was able to watch portions of it without the glasses on, made me wonder why I bothered paying extra.]]>May 2nd 2010 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/I agree, it's not ready yet. But telling your audience to hate it is pretty extreme in my opinion. Let it mature, let the early adopters hash out the good from the bad; don't just write it off because its still taking baby steps.]]>May 2nd 2010 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
For that matter, moving pictures are superfluous. What happened to the good old days of books with photographs. And don't even get me started about the talkies]]>May 2nd 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
The problem with 3D isn't the technology (though that will be improved). The problem is the same as with any new effect: filmakers depend on them to bring asses to seats and forget that a movie needs a story and characters that work for the audience. Remember the early CGI movies that came out? They looked pretty at the time but it wasn't until something like Terminator 2 came out where the CGI was just a compliment to the movie, not it's soul purpose for being.

It always comes back to making a good story with interesting characters. Once filmakers remember that, we should start seeing movies that use the technology to compliment the story, rather than be the story as is now the case with 3D.]]>May 2nd 2010 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/Personally I find the flicker of 24FPS annoying. ]]>May 2nd 2010 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
That's as poor an arguement as any I've read.

3D is lame, why? It does nothing for story telling. Colour does, music does, well used special effects do. HD hmmm not really. 3D could in another 2 or 3 generations of it.

Avatar's story, it's emotive content, has as much impact in 2 or 3D. I've observed and questioned people on the issue.

For 3D to be as colour or sound or good effects in aiding story telling it needs to respond to head movement and focal length. Without that it's a gimmick as it always was.

Eg: a mystery film using 3D and the viewer focuses on a tabletop where a clue is that would otherwise be out of focus. Or looking behind something by moving your head to see what otherwise is hidden.]]>May 2nd 2010 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
I think 3D may well be here to stay, I'd like to see better display technologies for the home, and it really has to be shot in 3D or left in 2D. The cost isn't going to be a big deal in the long run. In the short term, yes, it's expensive, but HDTVs used to be about 10x more expensive a decade ago, cost usually goes down with time.]]>May 2nd 2010 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://j.mp/avatar-2-coming-soon]]>May 2nd 2010 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
I agree completely!]]>May 3rd 2010 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/i agree, its also bad that some films just completely rely upon 3D as their main selling point and have an awful storyline (avatar for example)

also, piranha looks amazing XD]]>May 3rd 2010 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
I hope it doesn't catch on. When I went to go Avatar, I was greatly disappointed with 3-D. It was View-Master quality at best. Most of the time it was blurry and I couldn't really tell what was going on too well. Maybe that's because 3-D is new, studios have only been dabbling in it for 95 years. Or maybe I just can't view movies in 3-D. Either way, I'm not enticed to go see another.

I had another problem when I went to see Avatar as well: glare! Despite wearing polarized glasses, I was almost overwhelmingly distracted by it. That WILL need to be fixed beore I pay extra to give 3-D another chance.]]>May 4th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/German for "The 3D, The"?]]>May 2nd 2010 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/Nobody who speaks German could be an evil man.]]>May 2nd 2010 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
WIN!!!!!!!]]>May 2nd 2010 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/I'm here.]]>May 2nd 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
You forgot to unnecessarily clear the room first.]]>May 2nd 2010 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/how am i supposed to wear glasses over my glasses eh?
]]>May 2nd 2010 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/Buy contacts. If that's not feasible, then wear bigger 3D glasses.

The solutions aren't elegant or practical, but that's all we're stuck with for now. The glasses-over-glasses thing gives me a headache, so I have to put my contacts on every time I go watch a 3D movie. It's seldom ever worth it.]]>May 2nd 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
The cheapo $3 3D glasses given for Avatar fit over my glasses perfectly.]]>May 2nd 2010 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
Indeed, I wore the glasses over my prescription glasses and didn't have too much issue. Of course it may have been slightly more annoying than to the person next to me without script glasses, but it wasn't really a bother.

And after rewatching Avatar on Bluray, I really missed the experience of it in 3D which was really was amazing. So immersive that it changes the movie watching experience.]]>May 3rd 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/the people who are raging against 3D are probably the same people would would rage against surround sound. rage against high def TV, rage against blu-ray or HDDVD, or pretty much rage against anything that isn't the status quo. This is new. Learn that its going to take directors and studios time to figure out how to use it. Until then its purely a gimmick to draw in people. And also understand that exceptional directors on the 2d medium may not be able to do 3D in a way that doesn't blow. tarantino, spielberg, Scott, may all suck at 3D. But there may be a no name director that has the knack for doing it. This could open up a whole new world for no name directors.]]>May 2nd 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6N5gXr784Y

Same garbage you see today but fun to watch in context with today's attempts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYYgd6vker0&feature=related

And lets not forget one of the biggest selling all time 3-D movies....LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N25u6YZhHgE

This is just a small sample. I'm only allowed to attach 3 urls. Enjoy
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what creative advertising, how much are you getting paid for that little plug? And if you aren't, why are you promoting such shit?]]>May 2nd 2010 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/It's called sarcasm. Engadget uses it a lot when talking about not-so-good products. See: Crapgadget.]]>May 2nd 2010 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/02/roger-ebert-gives-3d-thumbs-down-shocking-headlines-two-thumbs/May 2nd 2010 10:14PM