I just saw Green Lantern in 3D the other night and I decided me and 3D are through. That is, if the movie is also showing in 2D and neither version is on an IMAX screen, I'm saving my money. When I was looking for showtimes for GL I unconsciously thought "might as well see it in 3D for the fullest experience," but two or three times during the movie I said to myself "Oh yeah, this is in 3D. I forgot. Yeah, I guess that thing is up here and that other thing is back there." But then I'd forget about it again.
What I question is the whole idea that movies need to progress as far as possible into reality. I'm just not sure that assumption is correct. A couple of times when I've seen depictions of holographic TVs (in comic books, or articles about THE FUTURE), it's been people watching miniature characters on a tabletop, like the chess board on the Millenium Falcon. And I always thought that was lame; I want backgrounds, setting, stuff, displayed on a screen. Until you've got a working holodeck for me, I don't see the need to go in there.
But IMAX is different. I freaking love IMAX, when it's actually on an IMAX screen that towers over me (somehow they're allowed to show IMAX movies on normal screens and I don't get that at all). It's got to be the right movie to take advantage of it; there have been times when, like my 3D experience, I just kind of forget that it's there. But for Speed Racer, Sucker Punch, Dark Knight, Tron Legacy, the big stuff is the right stuff.
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