Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release)

[Reelo]

I HATE 3D. If there was a word stronger than "hate", that's what I'd feel.

Try loathe, abhor, despise...
I'm with you there. They are showing it in 2D over here at 10AM (first in the morning) and at 0AM (last in the evening) all other slots during the day are 3D.

 

[joshvanrad]

Is 3D still doing that well? Is 3D selling more tickets than 2D?

 

[Kylash]

My local theaters had about 5 screens for 3D and 1 for 2D, ridiculous.

 

[Wolfsburg]

I'm also on board the anti-3D bandwagon. It does nothing for me and is just a distracting gimmick as far as I'm concerned...

 

[Bryancd]

Is 3D still doing that well? Is 3D selling more tickets than 2D?

It's a higher price point ticket.

 

[joshvanrad]

I understand that very well, but are they outselling 2D ticket sales?

 

[Bryancd]

I understand that very well, but are they outselling 2D ticket sales?

No but they are more profitable and sell in sufficient numbers to justify the cost of converting some films.

 

[jcoffman99]

Outselling, probably not. Generating more revenue, you betcha.

 

[joshvanrad]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

 

[Hanslow]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Why's that

 

[kristen jones]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Dude.... lighten up a bit. I don't like the 3D gimmick either... but alot of the public DOES. I get that it isn't all about me or my wants, so I don't slash my wrists when something i don't care for becomes popular... I'll just see it in 2D instead.

There have been a couple of movies lately that have only been playing in 3D in my area...and I suffered through them. All told it wasn't *that* bad in those cases because the 3D was seemingly restricted more to lengthening the depth of field than letting things poke out at you (which i REALLY dislike) so it isn't that i don't get what you're saying... only that i think you're being a bit extreme.

 

[joshvanrad]

I'm half joking.

 

[Reelo]

I -as well as most of us here- grew up with 2D, 24fps cinema. It's what I percieve as "classic".
Higher framerates (like the Hobbit) suffer from the soap-opera effect (I don't understand why people would watch a movie on a modern TV with motion smoothing/interpolation turned on: it's horrible) and 3D just isn't as "sharp" as 2D (even though at 24fps, fast movement in 2D suffers from blurring, it's something we're used to)

 

[CutThumb]

I think 3D has its place in cinema. Some of the best effects films I've seen were in 3D. I thought "Avatar" with its intense colours and dense set pieces worked brilliantly. Similarly "Gravity" was just a superb experience in Imax 3D.
But I've booked "The Force Awakens" for 2D because to me nothing would make it seem so unlike my original experience of "Star Wars" than seeing it in 3D. Watching "The Hobbit" was a mistake in 3D and I don't wish to repeat that.
The younger generation seem to enjoy 3D and so do I for certain films. I'll be seeing "Spectre" in 2D and I don't think its being released in any other format. I'll wait and see what people think of the 3D version of TFA.
Personally, I just want to feel I'm jumping back nearly forty odd years to being that kid in the cinema who just sat there in stunned amazement at what he was watching on the screen. I can still remember that exact feeling decades on. Even now when I put the film on, after seeing it countless times, that opening still has the power to move me back through time and thrill me.
I'm sure TFA will do the exact same thing.
But I do slightly envy the person who'll be sat watching their first SW movie ever in 3D when that Star Destroyer soars on to the screen.

 

[kristen jones]

I -as well as most of us here- grew up with 2D, 24fps cinema. It's what I percieve as "classic".
Higher framerates (like the Hobbit) suffer from the soap-opera effect (I don't understand why people would watch a movie on a modern TV with motion smoothing/interpolation turned on: it's horrible) and 3D just isn't as "sharp" as 2D (even though at 24fps, fast movement in 2D suffers from blurring, it's something we're used to)

I do agree with this...for myself. My husband loves to turn on the "vivid" setting on the flatscreen--which i abhor. I think the "cinema" mode looks better. He also loves high frame rates and 3d and hi def and all of that... and I do not. I prefer the other. Everyone likes something different.

When we're out in a big world, it's majority rules. In our house, The Lady rules! ;-)

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I'm half joking.

Well then the half of you that isn't joking needs to lighten up and be more like the other half then. :thumbsup

 

[Getoninja]

People who see it in 3D are posers

 

[NeoRutty]

Hate 3D and especially that James Cameron is pushing so much for it. I know he's all about the theater experience, but damn it's annoying (cameron also was all for raising prices to like 30 bucks... he's nuts).

But I'll see it in 3D on the 17th simply because 2D wasn't an option for opening night (at least not where I live). I will hunt down 2D Imax for my second viewing...

 

[kristen jones]

People who see it in 3D are posers

....No....people who see it in 3D are people who like to see movies in 3D.

and also are people with more disposable income.

But mostly they are people who like to watch movies in 3D. Not Losers.

 

[joshvanrad]

I'll say this, I've never seen a movie in 2D and thought, "That movie could have been better if it had used 3D."

 

[Curmudgeon]

I can understand the appeal of 3D but for me the strain on my eyes makes it harder to enjoy the movie.