I hate 3D. In the real worlds it\u2019s somewhat OK so you don\u2019t crash into the car in front of you. But in the theatres it\u2019s just a pointless rip-off of which I hope it\u2019s going to die again \u2013 and soon.<\/p>\n
Movies in Technicolor and with sound \u2013 that were revolutions in the theatres. The evolution of special effects from Ray Harryhausen to CGI \u2013 that\u2019s what brought movies forward.<\/p>\n
3D? Not so much. The horribly boring Avatar<\/em> started a trend which just won\u2019t stop so far. And what\u2019s even worse is that ever more theatres fail to show the 2D version at all because it\u2019s much easier to milk your customers with the 3D ticket prices.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong; despite my actual glasses I don\u2019t have a problem to perceive the 3D effect. It\u2019s just that in my eyes (no pun intended) no movie became any better with it than it would have been without it. Either the movie is good on its own or its not. It\u2019s just that simple.<\/p>\n Just to make one thing clear: I\u2019m not an art house fetishist, I\u2019m watching standard summer blockbusters which sometimes allow you to check your brain at the door and just enjoy the nonsense on the big screen. And I still would not want to watch Armageddon 3D<\/em> because even that movie works for me because of the wonderfully out-of-tune \u201cLeaving on a Jet Plane\u201d by John Denver and Steve Buscemi\u2019s ride on the nuke \u2013 and not because of the short CGI sequences where Bruce Willis is almost crushed by a ricocheting asteroid fragment.<\/p>\n The whole 3D subject wouldn\u2019t be worth a note to me if (as hinted at earlier) the 2D version would still be shown at the theatres or if they wouldn\u2019t ask for such a steep extra charge.<\/p>\n I would love to watch Man of Steel<\/em> on the big screen, but I\u2019m seriously considering not doing it.<\/p>\n For one, I\u2019m a movie-in-the-original-language (\u201cO-Ton\u201d) watcher. But the local theatre only show it in O-Ton at 4:45pm. But for a movie evening with friends I\u2019d be willing to watch it in the German dubbing.<\/p>\n But even the base prices for the tickets have gone up over the past few years. Now you pay at least \u20ac6 on \u201cCinema Tuesday\u201d on the weekend you pay at least \u20ac9. AND another \u20ac4 for a 3D feature I neither want nor need. That adds up to \u20ac11 for a single seat on \u201cCinema Tuesday\u201d and a surcharge of 57% on the base price of \u20ac7.<\/p>\n But thanks to per cent calculation it\u2019s only 40% surcharge on the weekends. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n As of now I have a personal limit of \u20ac13 or \u00a310 which I\u2019m willing to pay for Blu-rays and then I can watch the movie as often as I like \u2013 in English.<\/p>\n So now I\u2019m asking myself if a one-time consumption like a visit to the theatre in the wrong language and with too many dimensions is really worth the asked price just to have a big screen \u2013 and I\u2019m seriously leaning towards \u201cnyet\u201d.<\/p>\n Luckily Man of Steel<\/em> has already made a ton of money or else we would read in the Die Zeit<\/em> (a German weekly magazine) again* how all these evul movie pirates are destroying cinemas all over the world.<\/p>\n *Die Zeit<\/em> blamed the theatrical failure of Cloud Atlas<\/em> on the pirates and Google, not on the convoluted plot and general mainstream inaccessibility. <\/p>\n
\nSince the movie runs for 148 minutes you pay another \u20ac1 for its length.<\/p>\n