tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post3981582267341531354..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: 3-D -- it's so unfair!By Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-1040747234070326762011-12-06T19:14:50.344-08:002011-12-06T19:14:50.344-08:00not to blame you, but this is why 3D will never be...not to blame you, but this is why 3D will never be mainstream. special hardware in order to enjoy it, and it's so subjective how the eyes will (or won't) process it.DyHrdMEThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621011643939597497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-36043185387407107282011-12-06T17:47:25.068-08:002011-12-06T17:47:25.068-08:00Don't worry, as this comic explains, you'r...Don't worry, as this comic explains, you're not missing much: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/3d_moviesCodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15244519478946026617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-20707038321015473872011-12-06T13:53:50.386-08:002011-12-06T13:53:50.386-08:00I'm the same way! Captain EO was lost on me.I'm the same way! Captain EO was lost on me.Deannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01982223330215608312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-25393676758175162872011-12-05T19:52:22.799-08:002011-12-05T19:52:22.799-08:00I have YET to see a 3D film where it made a differ...I have YET to see a 3D film where it made a difference. A girl three seats down from me, during AVITAR, told my girlfriend and I she was getting vertigo from watching it in 3D. All the action in the very back of the screen is blurry.<br /><br />I saw HUGO in 2D and the sun rose again today!<br /><br />Does ANYONE own a 3D TV?Normhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10344626134240504739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-27108319821072405262011-12-05T17:59:48.932-08:002011-12-05T17:59:48.932-08:00I failed my first driver's test because of sti...I failed my first driver's test because of stigmatism; it turned out that I'm one of those people who process their vision through one eye at a time. I can bounce back from 'left' eye to right eye; i can even try hard and look through both at once but its kind of a strain. Somewhere in the process i also started to become wall-eyed, like jack elam. You never know why jack elam always played a weird, goofy loner type until you look like jack elam.<br />seriously.rockfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02835472375196889875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-79658759880780427342011-12-05T16:10:27.295-08:002011-12-05T16:10:27.295-08:00"... Likewise Avatar; without the occasional ..."... Likewise Avatar; without the occasional thing looking like it's going to poke your eye out, how else will you stay awake?"<br /><br />Mac, to what shots in Avatar are you referring?<br /><br />(James Cameron made a specific effort to *avoid* gimmick shots like that).Dave Oldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13215102320199051371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-33052450674903532372011-12-05T14:27:39.928-08:002011-12-05T14:27:39.928-08:00Try Read-D 3D with the polarized glasses, since th...Try Read-D 3D with the polarized glasses, since the lenses are not requiring each eye to do something different, you might be able to see it. Please don't give up. There is a lot of good in 3D if people would stop trying to shove 2D-made-into-3D down our throats.Texas 1sthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807020350499195184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-34566947857510982682011-12-05T11:13:44.509-08:002011-12-05T11:13:44.509-08:003D is seen with the brain, rather than the eyes: i...3D is seen with the brain, rather than the eyes: it requires significant mental processing. People born cross-eyed, who have the corrective operation too late in life (a few years old), never learn to see in 3D: the brain doesn't bother to learn. If your eyesight has been corrected so it's optically OK, you can teach yourself to see in 3D with significant effort.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06248182899977033579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-34409144101122202682011-12-05T08:41:41.693-08:002011-12-05T08:41:41.693-08:00I hate 3D. It gives me a headache. I only watch ...I hate 3D. It gives me a headache. I only watch 2D and refuse to see anything else. I understand I'm posting from a place of "3-D Privilege", because I COULD see a 3-D movie if I wanted to, and you are not allowed that luxury. However in my glorious opinion, you are not missing anything. I am hoping the 3-D craze blows over soon. This is one fad I am not jumping on the bandwagon for.purplejillynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-56134643099037302212011-12-05T07:51:52.786-08:002011-12-05T07:51:52.786-08:00I never could get my eyes to do the red-blue 3D. ...I never could get my eyes to do the red-blue 3D. Columbia Sony recently published the Stooges two shorts in 3D for home use and included two pairs of glasses. Not only can I not see the effect with the glasses, I can't see the picture. It's just a jumble of lines.<br /><br />The only 3D that ever worked for me (I have not seen a movie in a theater for over ten years - too much crap out there) is the episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun that they 3d'ed for sweep month. I could see depth in places but was still disappointed in my limited ability to detect it.DwWashburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03057278992504418291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-83050503573747491352011-12-05T07:48:39.627-08:002011-12-05T07:48:39.627-08:00You're not missing anything. I can see it, bu...You're not missing anything. I can see it, but it doesn't add anything to the movie-going experience. Except a bad headache and a feeling of having been ripped off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-48439123520191536692011-12-05T06:24:19.661-08:002011-12-05T06:24:19.661-08:00I could never see the old 3D, so I had pretty low ...I could never see the old 3D, so I had pretty low expectations of the newer technology. Then my wife and I visited Moody Gardens in Galveston last summer, and they had several short nature films in 3D, so I tried watching a couple. I was amazed at the quality of the 3D effects in the first one. But by the end of the second one, we were both already starting to get eyestrain and headaches. We'd watched about 30 minutes total, with a break to change theaters in the middle. I couldn't imagine sitting through an entire 90-120 minute film that used it. <br /><br />Bottom line: 3D blows you away at first, but after 15 minutes or so, it becomes an unendurable ordeal. It's the Celine Dion of special effects.Pat Reederhttp://www.comedy-wire.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-49634702861099962652011-12-05T04:28:53.819-08:002011-12-05T04:28:53.819-08:00I have strabismus, too. I took up track and field ...I have strabismus, too. I took up track and field in school because it was the only sport that didn't involve a flying ball that could hit me in the face whilst I was trying to catch or hit it. <br /><br />So I can't see depth in 3D movies, either, and I'd make a crummy play-by-play announcer for any baseball team other than Houston. <br /><br />But 3D is not as important to me as is a movie's writing or absense of Adam Sandler.Lou H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17611461956944372901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-22883727792780479762011-12-05T02:00:41.554-08:002011-12-05T02:00:41.554-08:00I thought I was the only one. Funky glasses shoul...I thought I was the only one. Funky glasses should not be relied upon to upsell stupid 3-D cats and loser movies. And I am not bitter or twisted.HogsAteMySisterhttp://hogsatemysister.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-50994692692985557052011-12-04T23:58:53.820-08:002011-12-04T23:58:53.820-08:00Is it that a larger portion of the world cannot se...Is it that a larger portion of the world cannot see 3D movies that anyone ever thought, or is it simply all of them, for some reason, are drawn to your blog?Tim W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16860726607106078491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12321941228424692262011-12-04T20:11:46.735-08:002011-12-04T20:11:46.735-08:00Hi. Recent lurker, long time admirer of your work....Hi. Recent lurker, long time admirer of your work.<br /><br />I, too, cannot see in 3-D. I was born with a condition called Strabismus. It's a muscle imbalance behind the eyes. I see out of one eye at a time. Besides not seeing in 3-D, I can't judge distances either. I had an operation at age 2 to uncross my eyes and another one at age 10 for the same thing. Since I've never been able to see in 3-D, I don't know any different from 2-D vision. My left eye is 20/400 uncorrected while my right eye is 20/40. Until recently, when I have developed a cataract in my left eye, I would read up close with my left eye and switch to my right eye to look at anything further than 5 feet in front of me. So, I have monocular vision, not binocular vision like most people.<br /><br />The best way I describe it to people is to say if you held up a life size photo of someone next to that person, a "normal" sighted person would see the photographed live person in 3-D but the photo version would be flat 2-D. That flat 2-D is what I always see. I just don't know any different.<br /><br />So yeah, 3-D movies or 3-D anything (Captain Eo too, thankfully) is wasted on the likes of me.Don K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-62127296576910713162011-12-04T19:51:04.556-08:002011-12-04T19:51:04.556-08:00I've heard that Andrea Bocelli has a problem w...I've heard that Andrea Bocelli has a problem with 3-D also.YEKIMIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01921751875397071034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-70109313825152187612011-12-04T19:47:22.906-08:002011-12-04T19:47:22.906-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.YEKIMIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01921751875397071034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-23996480281946140922011-12-04T19:06:19.744-08:002011-12-04T19:06:19.744-08:00I only use one eye. I was cheated of the 3D exper...I only use one eye. I was cheated of the 3D experience as a child, too. I spent HOURS staring at the those ridiculous posters that looked like spilled ink that were supposed to resolve into a 3D dinosaur. I was cheated.<br /><br />I actually got a little scared when the latest crop of 3D crap hit a few years ago. I dread telling my son (currently 3) that I can't attend a 3D movie with him because I'll be leaving on a stretcher with blood coming out of my ears if I am subjected to that.<br /><br />Hopefully the neighbor dads will take pity on my son and take him with them when they go see Cars 3(D) coming in 2015.Reboundinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01610595028216626302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-19407110352339422032011-12-04T16:11:04.149-08:002011-12-04T16:11:04.149-08:00"Maybe drop out of society, sublet the Unibom..."Maybe drop out of society, sublet the Unibomber’s shed, sell Comcast cable in the wilderness."<br /><br />Wow, if you own Comcast cable, you're rich enough to have someone killed and implant their eyes. I can give you a list, if you'd like.<br /><br />And wouldn't it be ironic if you were asked to write 3-D movie? <br /><br />Me, if the 3D is well done, I don't mind, but it's not usually something I really remember much or that enhances the movie. I thought it worked well for Avatar, but I've seen a number of 3D movies (including Puss In Boots), and can't say I liked the movie better because of it. In fact I probably couldn't even name them (other than Puss In Boots, because you mentioned it).Tim W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16860726607106078491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-76278346121992343022011-12-04T12:56:37.263-08:002011-12-04T12:56:37.263-08:00I'm sorry you can't experience the opening...I'm sorry you can't experience the opening scene of Hugo, that movie is gorgeous! For all you 3D naysayers, come and see me after you see"Hugo".<br /><br />In other news, I was at a very large pub for Bedlam last night and EVERYONE in the bar sang along to the Cheers theme song during that Allstate commerical, it was great. Then when it ended 3 guys yelled "Norm!" It made me smile and think of you.<br /><br />Sorry again about the 3D.xjillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-36134804213136248022011-12-04T12:30:10.181-08:002011-12-04T12:30:10.181-08:00I hear you Ken. I am mildly dyslexic, but thanks t...I hear you Ken. I am mildly dyslexic, but thanks to years of special ed reading classes, it didn't become a problem - unitl the coming of 3D, latest incarnation. I have heard that 3D causes headaches for about 15 to 20 percent of the public and I fall in that category thanks to my condition. <br /><br />Fortunately, this works to my advantage. I am also cheap and just don't believe in paying that extra five bucks to see a movie in 3D. I have a medical excuse that holds water with those willing to pay for the priviledge of 3D.<br /><br />I am so thankful that Chris Nolan is going the IMAX route with the next Batman. That should rock.Jim Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-42964866233685278442011-12-04T12:06:04.538-08:002011-12-04T12:06:04.538-08:00This is very funny. Although I'm sorry you'...This is very funny. Although I'm sorry you've been deprived of 3-D, I find it more disturbing that you used to skip as a child.RCPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251247613686669877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-40843413414122390642011-12-04T11:46:53.135-08:002011-12-04T11:46:53.135-08:00Earl is always on about his vision issues also. I...Earl is always on about his vision issues also. Is bad vision, like, something endemic to TV writers?<br /><br />And how amazing that my word verification is Iaria, the medical term for your condition!<br /><br />Also, I was reading something sports-related about you at some other site and someone named pumpkinhead posted a comment on it there, but it wasn't me. How amazing that two different people who follow you have the misfortune of having been named pumpkinhead by their respective parents.pumpkinheadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-71233830719457883112011-12-04T11:38:46.548-08:002011-12-04T11:38:46.548-08:00“What’s the point of making a cartoon look real an...“What’s the point of making a cartoon look real anyway?’<br /><br />Because only then will you truly believe in that sword-fighting cat. Likewise Avatar; without the occasional thing looking like it's going to poke your eye out, how else will you stay awake?Macnoreply@blogger.com