3D Technology. Love it or Hate it?

3D is what Hollywood and the rest of the world is talking about ever since "Avatar" came out. Things are changing all around us. If people didn't know there are now at least three different televisions that you can purchase that can offer 3 dimensional viewings. Many critics agree that this is the new technology for movie watching.

The podcast by Lenard Lopate which featured Lawrence Cormack and Phul McNally. McNally works at Dreamworks Animation and Cormack is an Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Texas. Throughout this podcast they discussed 3D technology and how it effects the brain and eye movement. But they also discussed 3D sickness that people sometimes have after watching a movie. I was shocked to find out how they created the 3D films was with two cameras and then in post - production they worked with the computer graphics. They discussed the cameras directors are using and how live action cameras are different but amazingly they are getting smaller and smaller, so small they could be hand held. A very difficult task that filmmakers had to deal with was projecting and capturing the system. They also discussed of how people get sick during a 3D movie because of motion sickness. And the fact that people's eye's are moving back and forth, is what causes some pick to feel sick during a movie. There was a caller that called in and he made a smart comment about the glasses and how they are kind of like sunglasses. The men did a fine job explaining that the movie is actually very light and in post-production they make it that way and for the future they are finding ways to make it better.

Then they discussed what made 3D technology so famous and popular, "Avatar." The fact that people kept going to see it over and over, not for the story but for the atmosphere of the movie, is what the men said. They said that viewers were submegered into the story and they loved that they were in the movie. I think thats why so many people like 3D, they like the action on the screen. The fact that the person or object in front of them is somewhat real and you are sent into the movie.

I like the ideas of 3D movies for most movies, including action and horror movies. It would be so much fun to sit in a war movie and see the reality of the setting. The viewer can feel apart of the action instead of feeling like they are just watching it happen. Though the whole 3D technology is brilliant and very futuristic, I would not want to see certain movies in 3D. In the magazine, Entertainment Weekly, director Judd Apatow commented saying that in his movies, featuring nudity sometimes, no one would want to see someone's stuff in 3D.

My question to the people making these movies is why can't you make a 3D movie and a 2D movie? My point is to instead of forcing viewers to sit through a movie that they may not want to see in 3D, why not have the best of both situation?s