
Forgive me Father for I have sinned, yes it's been a year since my last post. I decided to start posting again. Not that anybody is actually reading this. :\ OK, now that that's out of the way....
I friggin' hate 3D movies and videos. Yes, amidst the biggest draw for a 3D movie in history--what up, James Cameron--I am saying that this is the worst move in entertainment technology that we could be making. Allow me to demonstrate.
3D is an old technology! 3D movies have been around for 50 years and coming up on 60! And although the technology has been improved somewhat, those improvements are not worthy of five decades of upgrades. This is the year 2010! We should be out near Jupiter haggling with HAL about how to save the Discovery but no we're stuck in terrestrial movie theaters awed by hot pokers coming out at us from the big screen.
Which brings me to my next point. 3D movies are typically--can't speak for Avatar yet because I haven't seen it--lame as the scripts are written to provide as many gimmicks as possible, thereby all but ensuring the story is shit.
And now 3D television?! Talk about impractical. Are all our guests for the big game or movie night going to have to bring their own glasses? Do manufacturers and content providers expect us to don glasses whenever we watch TV? WTF is going on here?
Speaking of glasses, can there be a less attractive and more nerdy facial accessory than a pair of 3D glasses? And what of our visually impaired friends and family? I can't believe wearing 3D glasses on top of prescription glasses is at all comfortable.
No, my friends, we truly missed the entertainment boat when it was decided to chase 3D tech over holographic. That's where we should be: in theaters watching holographic movies with our bare eyes! I say we boycott this trend now before it's too late and my wife has to purchase tiny 3D glasses so the damn dog can watch AFV in 3D!
Howard Stern may have put it best: "Don't we see in 3D all the time already? I wanna see 2D." Well, maybe not the best, but it works.