I find 3-D absolutely unnecessary and actually dulls the colours that I intended to be dazzled by in Avatar. And although I did not like the film (and continue to like it less and less as it’s popularity grows [seriously people, wtf - the characters sucked]) I would have loved to see High Res colours on a digital screen – but no, I got to see a 3-D version of Pandura. Blow me.

I’ll see any horror film in 3-D (with the exception of another Saw flick [again, wtf people]) because I know there’s a point to the 3-D.

Great post Lizz, keep writing and thanks so much for this topic!

As you say, the studios could invest the money in “technology to keep movies evolving”… but perhaps 3D IS that technology. Not the final product, but a step along the way. If you compare Coraline to Up to Avatar, the technology has been used more effectively, more naturalistically, to add to the films; maybe the next step, or the one after that, gets it all right.

Or maybe you just get another Amityville 3D.