Are audiences tired of remakes and 3-D?

God bless 3D discussion topics.

"Hey, you wanna' know why that thing that works can't possibly work?"

"I've been wondering that. Please do tell."

"Because you have to look at one point while focusing on another. We didn't evolve for that. Such an action violates the mechanics of the human body almost as badly as wearing shoes with padded soles."

"Shock. Gasp. Something that unnatural would surely get in my way while I enjoy the natural process of percieving a rapid slide show as smooth movement."

"But it gets worse."

"How is that even possible?"

"You have to wear glasses to see the 3D."

"Fuck! Glasses? You mean those things that are so difficult to don, wear, and remove? I mean... at least glasses aren't as complicated as pants. But still...Fuck!"

"Yeah, thank God we don't have to wear pants to see a movie. How inconvenient would that be?"

"I would never watch another movie again."

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Originally Posted by Opaque

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White boy detected.

The amount of money spent for the 3D effect versus the actual 'benefits' of having seen the movie in 3D are wildly disparate (it's a boutique effect, is what I'm getting at). Also, wearing glasses to see said effect is silly - not cumbersome or hard, just asinine.

Remakes make sense from the point of view that Hollywood owns (the "familiarity" thing). In the real world, they don't make sense unless the original had terrible acting/directing/writing or whatever.

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

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You're the worst.

Wearing glasses on top of my existing glasses sucks balls. The payoff is also not all that great. I'll do it when I go out to a theater because it's kind of neat, but in the comfort of my own home, wearing 3D glasses to see something in 3D that looks like blurry shit to everyone else around isn't really all that practical.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

You're the worst.

Wearing glasses on top of my existing glasses sucks balls.

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I can see where you're coming from. I mean, I wouldn't want to put pants on if I already had smaller pants on. After I put my shirt on, ain't no way anything else is going over my torso. And just imagine how silly you would look if after you put socks on your feet, you had to put another covering over top of them!

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wearing 3D glasses to see something in 3D that looks like blurry shit to everyone else around isn't really all that practical.

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And we wouldn't want to break the cycle of "practical" while we eat $8 popcorn and watch a demolition team destroy a 1/100 meticulous scale model of New York city.

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

I can see where you're coming from. I mean, I wouldn't want to put pants on if I already had smaller pants on. After I put my shirt on, ain't no way anything else is going over my torso. And just imagine how silly you would look if after you put socks on your feet, you had to put another covering over top of them!

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You're reaching pretty far. You win, I guess, I really don't care that much. I wouldn't do it at home but in the end it's up to the consumers at large whether the technology becomes standard.

It won't.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

There's good reason why this same 3d shit went away in the late 70s/early 80s. It's a stupid gimmick that adds very little to the movie.
You can argue what you want about 3d being how we see the world, 3d movies don't look like you're looking into the world, they look like you're staring at a diorama.

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Shit...I could never quite describe what I feel "3d" actually looks like....nail on the head, my friend.

Yoshi and Cheebs are the only ones who care about 3D on TNL.

I like it, but there's no way in hell I'm shelling out for the 3D blu rays. Fuck these assholes with their padding of the product. Instead of selling me two blu rays, a DVD, and a digital download for $40, how about you just sell me the 3D bluray for $20.
I got the TV and 5 pairs of glasses, and they just sit unused.
Aside from Wipeout, none of the 3D games that are available for PS3 interest me.
If I didn't need a tv anyway, and the deal I got wasn't impossible to pass up, I wouldn't have opted in.