Perspectives on the Death of Stereo3D

I’ve written about my perspective on Stereo 3D cinema before. A summary of that perspective goes like this:

• Doesn’t make the cinema experience better
• Isn’t worth the cost
• Most people Dont want it or Dont care
• Is a desperate attempt to prop up a failing business model
• It’s a matter of time before someone sues for damage to their eye-sight and this will create a litigation snowball at which point the Risk-Adverse studios will run away from 3D like fleeing lambs.

But who cares what my perspective is? Lets take the perspectives of a few others smarter and more experienced than I.

Phillip Hodgetts

“Wearing the 3D glasses keeps reminding me that I’m outside the experience looking in, something that’s not obvious without the glasses; and Every time we change camera angles, in 3D I need to take a moment to work out where I am in space, taking me out of the movie for just a moment-at every cut!”

Kirsten Thompson

“3-D has been getting less and less profitable, relative to 2-D, over the past five years. It’s an ominous, downward trend that started long before Avatar and Alice in Wonderland and continued after.”

Walter Murch

“The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an inferior and inherently brain-confusing image is outrageous. The case is closed. So: dark, small, stroby, headache inducing, alienating. And expensive. The question is: how long will it take people to realize and get fed up?”

Christopher Nolan

“I find the dimness of the image extremely alienating.”

The Graphs

http://www.slate.com/id/2264927/pagenum/all/#p2

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/rise-and-fall-3d-19407