Not me. I always hated 3D and have no interest in seeing it in that version.
I’ve talked about 3D on here before, but does it bother anyone else’s vision? In several different cases, including in theaters and a 3D television, I found the visuals intense to the point of being uncomfortable to look at the screen. Nothing 3D has been smooth and seamless for me; instead, it’s shaky and hurts my eyes, and I haven’t actually been able to experience the illusion of a 3D image coming towards me outside of theme park attractions (for whatever reason that is!). Plus, there’s the whole compromise of the film’s original brightness/saturation, which is just a shame. Oh yeah, and the glasses are pretty annoying to put over my regular glasses.
So yeah, in other words, I HATE 3D. Plus, I often see movies with my dad, like animated ones, and he can’t even see 3D because of his vision. Even though I would love to see some Disney movies on the big screen, I absolutely refuse to see them in 3D. Luckily, though, I haven’t had the problem of not having a 3D vs traditional choice at a theater (yet). When that choice gets taken away, that’s when I start protesting. 
blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html
That’s a pretty good article on the subject. The “strobing” effect and convergence are what bother me.
I definitely agree. 3D always gives me a headache which is another reason why for my hate of 3D.
The effect is physically bothering to a percentage of people. You guys must be among them.
It’s a visual thing.
For me, only a few movies truely work in 3D. I know some don’t look like their in 3D at all. I think I once read that about the Last Airbender.
I read somewhere that 3D is starting to die out.
I personally don’t get headaches or anything from 3D, but I do prefer 2D. That was an interesting article.
I agree that 3D is starting to die down. A sample of that is if you take a look at how Cars 2 and Kung Fu Panda 2 did with 3D ticket sales. I know they were sequels, but still.
3D is a fad. It comes and goes. I has been since the 50s or so. Once it dies, it will be done for a few years or more and the will come back again.
What do you mean with “I know they were sequels”
That’s pretty true.
Should edit that out. Anyway, Kung Fu Panda 2 really underperformed imo. It must of been since it opened against The Hangover Part 2.
And sad, as well, since the second Hangover was awful while KFP2 was quite good.
I agree. I could be way off on this but didn’t KFP2 make 48M on its opening weekend? It actually did pretty good worldwide.
People seem to underestimate worldwide gross. Just because KFP2 didn’t make a ton of money in America doesn’t mean it didn’t make a ton of money overseas. Yes, there are distribution costs, but films like KFP2, Tintin, Arthur Christmas etc have made money because of their worldwide performances rather than losing it.
I like to look at worldwide gross as a measure of box-office success. However, there are a lot of factors to consider, and the “half-profit” rule of thumb doesn’t always apply. Distribution costs/licensing vary per country, so it’s not always accurate to assume that X percentage of box-office receipts goes back to the home studio. In the case of Arthur Christmas, the numbers don’t suggest it made its money back yet–it all depends on how much Sony spent on distribution, advertising, and prints. Studios are famously not forthcoming about these costs. But it would be great if AC entered the profit zone on DVD sales.
io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-d … profitable
As for the topic at hand…most anticipated animated film of 2012 will be Brave (the obvious), but the big burning question is whether Hotel Transylvania will get made and be any good. Oh, that’s two questions, sorry…
Arthur Christmas was always going to perform better worldwide-or more specifically, the UK-anyway because it’s part of the culture. Ditto with Tintin; very popular in France, Belguim, parts of Asia because thats where the comics were popular.
However, the cost of advertising and distribution is an interesting topic…
Yep, and another interesting topic is how tax breaks in various countries are putting the squeeze on UK studios, including Aardman. It would be very sad if The Pirates! (another highly anticipated 2012 movie) ended up being the last under the Sony/Aardman partnership. Times are tough here, there, and everywhere…
I’m curious about Hotel Transylvania. Not really sure if I agree with all of the director changes that film has been though.
Anyway, it’s a shame the Aardman films don’t do well here since most of their films are critically aclaimed.
There was something in the paper a few months back about that 
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I’m actually British 
. Over here, Aardman are part of the culture. Wallace and Gromit shorts every Christmas, every kid I know watches Shaun the Sheep and has merchandise, and the jobs there are sought after like gold dust, as you can imagine. There’s so much Americanisation with animation here because not enough British made animation seems to surface. It’s a dying shame.
I’m really looking forward to Pirates! though . Arthur Christmas did very well here, it got to number one something like 6 weeks after it’s release which is odd but tactful . I think Aardman will fight their corner.
The Pirates looks pretty interesting. I loved the Britian trailer that was released for the film.