Finally, some good news.
Ever since James Cameron revolutionized the film industry fetish fan fiction websites with Avatar in 2010, 3D has become all-but standard for most wide-release movies. The format, which ranges from “fine” to “vomit-inducing” in terms of the experience you’ll have watching, has been a great way for the flagging movie theater industry to jack up prices for the blockbuster crowd.
And honestly? Good. 3D undoubtedly provides a different “spectacle”, but it comes at the frequent cost of coherent action scenes, and the fact you have to actually wear spectacles. The last film I saw in 3D was The Last Jedi, and I only did that by accident because I didn’t read the IMAX website carefully enough.
The only successful use of 3D in a film I have ever seen (YMMV; I am very much a 3D grouch) was in 2009’s Coraline. The added depth of field provided by Henry Selick brought realism and life to the claymation world. Claymation is, perhaps, the only form that can really benefit from the format. It looks uncanny with live-action, and is a needless, artificially generated concern for animated movies.
Death to 3D, is what I’m saying. We’ll be better off without it, and, whisper it: it may just force the big movie theater chains to improve their day-to-day experiences. Wouldn’t that be wild?
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