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bunnJust clicked on link for The Hobbit movie, and discovered that Vue cinemas have it all ready set up in their Coming Soon section - in 3D. But not in not-3D. The only cinema listed on their site as showing it in 2D is in Birmingham.
This must, I hope, be a booking engine glitch? I have seen 1 film in 3D, and it was enough to convince me that I - never - want to see another one. 3D does baaaaad things to the strange part of my brain that becomes direly nauseous if given the illusion of motion while sitting still - the part that means I cannot play any first-person perspective computer game, or watch films that make extensive use of the 'shot on a hand held cam' conceit.
I want to see this film! I want to enjoy it! I do not want to have to take a bucket and spend the whole time squinting at it sideways!
This must, I hope, be a booking engine glitch? I have seen 1 film in 3D, and it was enough to convince me that I - never - want to see another one. 3D does baaaaad things to the strange part of my brain that becomes direly nauseous if given the illusion of motion while sitting still - the part that means I cannot play any first-person perspective computer game, or watch films that make extensive use of the 'shot on a hand held cam' conceit.
I want to see this film! I want to enjoy it! I do not want to have to take a bucket and spend the whole time squinting at it sideways!
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Date: 2012-11-12 02:02 pm (UTC)Am blind in one eye... 3D movies are a boring waste of money for me.
I have problems watching them through the glasses with my good eye, so I end up having to take them off so I don't get a massive headache... which means that the film is a lot blurrier than usual, and rarely has good dialogue or soundtrack to make up for it.
*sigh*
I'm very lucky that my husband is understanding.
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Date: 2012-11-12 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-14 11:58 am (UTC)though IMAX is worse... just because it's bigger doesn't make it better! - in face it is usually worse, because you sit further away from the screen!
And is even more expensive than 3D.
Also - I have NO peripheral vision...
...so I end up walking out with a headache and a cricked neck.
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Date: 2012-11-12 02:08 pm (UTC)I wonder how many 2D 'prints' are available to cinemas, as Vue are generally good about getting in the 2D audience.
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Date: 2012-11-12 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-13 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-12 04:36 pm (UTC)I will be very cranky if it's a choice of seeing The Hobbit in 3D or waiting for DVD...
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Date: 2012-11-12 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-13 02:30 am (UTC)(I hated Avatar the movie so much I could not comment on the 3D, except I guess in general 3D doesn't blow me away. There's some argument that filmmakers are treating 3D like 2D, i.e. keeping the shallow planes of focus instead of trying to replicate the 100% clarity of the real world that the human eye sees, but I'm not sure even taking more advantage of the medium would help. Those shallow planes of focus get used so much in story-telling. Plus, you know, glasses, nausea, gimmicks.)
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Date: 2012-11-13 04:52 pm (UTC)If I want to see a really there dramatic production in 3D I go to the theatre.
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Date: 2012-11-13 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-12 05:47 pm (UTC)A bit of a pain, but might work out cheaper than driving huge distances for the 2D version!
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Date: 2012-11-12 11:44 pm (UTC)*well, OK - bit of an overstatement really. 'Mildly annoying' would probably be more accurate.
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Date: 2012-11-13 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-12 06:04 pm (UTC)Also, I'm miffed enough about them stretching this out to three films that I will probably wait on the DVDs just on principle. It's The Hobbit, for goodness sakes, how is it a six hour story?
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Date: 2012-11-12 11:54 pm (UTC)As to the three films - I am SO on for that (particularly as I believe they are putting in much of the Appendices to LOTR as additional content). Even having to watch in 3D will probably not prevent me from going...
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Date: 2012-11-24 09:49 pm (UTC)This this this. I have a large Fuchs' spot over the central vision of one eye (meaning I only have stereopsis peripherally, so 3D is a waste of time for me anyway) which *also* means I have a lot less light coming in anyway, so add in the 3D lack-of-light effect and the whole thing is so dark it's like squinting through treacle. (I've only seen one 3D film, Clash of the Titans, which was enough to know I never want to see another.)
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Date: 2012-11-12 08:22 pm (UTC)And anyway, I never adjusted to that newfangled computer animation Pixar stuff, and still grump about how in my day we had nice flat animation that talented people drew by hand. Which kind of suggests I might be saying the same thing about 2D films if they were to go the way of the dodo.
Hopefully your local theater is just under some mistaken assumption that the 3D will be more popular and decided to get the showtimes for that in order before dealing with the regularD.
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Date: 2012-11-12 11:56 pm (UTC)3d is all gimmick, no value so far as I can see. :-/
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Date: 2012-11-13 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-13 02:31 am (UTC)ME TOO.
I've enjoyed some of Pixar's movies quite a lot, but it's despite the animation, not because of it. :-/
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Date: 2012-11-13 06:08 pm (UTC)