Are 3D Movies The Future Of Cinema? - Granite Grok

Are 3D Movies The Future Of Cinema?

Is 3D worth the extra cost and is it the future of cinema
Is 3D worth the extra cost

I read somewhere that within the movie industry there is a growing consensus that 3D movies are the future of the big screen experience.  My initial reaction was that this is only true the way unemployment is the future of job growth in Obama’s America.  Just because Nancy Pelosi says it is doesn’t make it so. ?

And the problems are related.  Movies in 2D are already too expensive.  3D, which is the Mc Donald’s Drive-Thru cashiers equivalent of adding the apple pie to every order because there is no alternative, puts the big screen experience for the average American family out of reach.  My response to that is to just stay home, and not just because you can’t get a lower ticket price if you bring your own 3D glasses.  I have discovered what I like to call my Red Box mentality.  It goes something like this.

Even though I can take a Red Box movie home for just over $1.00, and view it several times before returning it if desired, and Red Box has plenty of current and classic titles, and convenient locations where I live, work and shop, and I can return the movie to any location regardless of where I rented it, and payment is quick and easy, more often than not I cannot find one single thing worth spending the dollar and change on.

Without even breaching the issues of pervasive left wing themes and stereotypes pouring out of the liberal entertainment establishment, we are left with the basics of economics.  If I sold my TV at retail, I’d still only get about 6 trips with the family to see what passes for the average, modern day, 3D movie experience.  Add a visit to the concession stand and it cut the visits nearly in half.  Taken together I have no motivation to embrace what Hollywood is selling, inclined to or otherwise,  even after it hits Red Box.

If it is not worth a buck and change, it is not worth much of anything.  Or is it just me?  It is that the left leaning fare is just too much for center right America?  Is competition to blame?

To it’s credit, television has managed to provide enough decent programming in recent years to keep more people at home.  Streaming internet on big screen televisions is also an inducement to hit the couch instead of a movie theater.   And after paying the cable and internet bill who has any money left in this economy to go to the movies anyway, no matter how many dimensions a film has?

 

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