I'm perplexed. 3-D used to be a joke, a holdover from the 50's when movies like ROBOT MONSTER and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON employed it to keep butts in theater seats and fend off the coming revolution known as TELEVISION.

To me, 3-D is a gimmick, nothing more. The fact that all the major broadcast networks and studios are banking on it to be their future is just weird and irritating.

3-D tried a comeback in the early 80's with titles like "Treasure of the Four Crowns" (a Raiders rip-off) and an asinine plotless movie called "Comin' At Ya'" which basically was a two hour excuse to throw shit at the viewer's face.

I'm probably just a curmudgeonly old fart who resists stuff deemed "new and exciting" but this whole 3-D wave reeks of failure. But then me n' my 13 inch analog color TV and Beta collection.... well, I'm probably not the best authority on this...

I was just having a conversation with my father about the coming 3D wave, and I confessed I was not at all excited. In fact, this followed a conversation in which he tried to convince me that not all movies had to be about the story, that sometimes it's the wow and the special effects that make a movie great. Sorry, but I still need a good story. Anyway, perhaps my father is right and the reason I don't care about 3D is because I am not traditionally and early adopter.

Not interested. Period.

Unless all TV will be written, directed, and produced by James Cameron :)

I doubt that most of us interested in the story will care for this.

I see it as a threat to the creation of story in film and television. It seems that more and more people just want to be excited by pretty colors and popping images.

I get it. That market makes up a majority of viewers. It's just disappointing as a viewer and as I said above, threatening to a writer.

How would you feel when your great story is shoved to the side by a 3D movie with little substance? I would imagine that most writers are already feeling the pressure since this isn't necessarily a new concept or problem for them.