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The only problem? It's in 3-D.
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Or The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
Or A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey?
Or Kung Fu Panda 2?
Or Mars Needs Moms?
It just occurred to me how much of this is Disney's fault. Still, I hear talk of 3-D televisions and the 3-D-capable evolution of the Nintendo DS, and I see no end to this 3-D craze. Which is baffling, considering how NO ONE likes 3-D.
Perhaps it's just the people I hang out with, but--without exception (except for this one friend)--the reaction is always the same: No matter how enthusiastic someone is about seeing a film, the instant they discover it's showing in 3-D, their excitement deflates, and there's often a pouty face or listless dejection that follows. I'm feeling the same way about The Green Hornet--I want to leave the house for a few hours, leave my wallet at the concession stand, and enjoy a movie that promises to be stupid amounts of fun, with nothing else for me to compare it against or expect it to be.
Plain. Old. Fun.
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Let me put this in another perspective: When I go out to a restaurant, I'm not forced to wear a tight helmet that makes my jaw ache as I chew (and have them charge me extra to wear it). I don't order take-out so I can eat restaurant food--which gets cold by the time I get home--without needing to deal with the aforementioned Meal Helmet.
As I said, there are movies such as Avatar, that truly need 3-D. Captain EO is a regular Meal Helmet convention--it simply doesn't work if you remove the key ingredient. It was fun enough to see the effects-heavy TRON: Legacy in 3-D, but as my girlfriend pointed out, the 3-D commercial before the film, which had water spraying all over the place, was the best part of the 3-D experience.
I feel like I'm repeating myself, but in a different context: Don't implement motion controls unless your video game absolutely requires them. Don't reboot a franchise unless there are no more stories to be told. Don't put your movie in 3-D unless you positively need to poke your audience in the eye.
3 comments:
Green Horet had actualy a T.V. show. If you want to see it it's on sci-fi channel (the show)
Everything you said is exactly true. I haven't watched The Green Hornet movie or Avatar yet, but I watched Tron: Legacy and decided they didn't need 3D since they didn't make full of it; aside from it costing more, it hurt my eyes after a while, without having baffled me with the amazing immersiveness 3D is supposed to promise. I just want it to come out on DVD.
Anonymous: I actually picked up a DVD of the Green Hornet TV show. Maybe a review will be in order once I watch it!
Tom0027: Y'know, I'm a little sad that I didn't see Green Hornet in the theater, even with the 3-D (which I'm gradually building a tolerance to). Action movies just aren't the same on my smaller screen.
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