{"id":1596,"date":"2011-05-13T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/dear-3d-please-die-already-again\/"},"modified":"2019-05-12T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:39:29","slug":"dear-3d-please-die-already-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/dear-3d-please-die-already-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear 3D, Please Die Already (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=https:\/\/images.fandango.com\/images\/thor561134.jpg \/><\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you young&#8217;ens a story about the ancient year of 1983. I was a very young and impressionable little film freak, but even I could smell the stink from the pile of 3D movies that was hitting the screens. Jaws 3, Friday the 13th Part 3, Amityville, Parasite, Spacehunter, Starchaser, Comin&#8217; at Ya!, Treasure of the Four Crowns &#8230; and those were the good ones. Yes, for about 18 months, the 1950s sensation was back, and it sucked.<\/p>\n<p>3D was invented as one of several gimmicks created to keep moviegoers distracted from how awesome television is. And then it came back in the &#8217;80s to try and distract people from those new-fangled VHS machines and high-tech video game set-ups like the Atari 2600. And now it&#8217;s back for an extended stay because someone in Hollywood looked around and said &#8220;Crap! There are way too many entertainment options these days! We need to dust off our secret weapon! Yes, my brilliant fellow studio executives, we must resort to 3D again. We&#8217;re desperate.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Now, however, we have all sorts of allegedly dazzling technology that will allow 3D to be well and truly &#8220;immersive,&#8221; which isn&#8217;t exactly what the creators of Amityville 3D were going for, so surely this is a welcome return. Computer technology will allow 3D to become mainstream, commonly accepted, and perhaps even awesomely popular! Plus they charge a few dollars more for the 3D screenings! Everyone wins!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, except for my assertion that 3D sucks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/new-news\/dear-3d-please-die-already-again\/2965 target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/new-news\/dear-3d-please-die-already-again\/2965<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you young&#8217;ens a story about the ancient year of 1983. I was a very young and impressionable little film freak, but even I could smell the stink from the pile of 3D movies that was hitting the screens. Jaws 3, Friday the 13th Part 3, Amityville, Parasite, Spacehunter, Starchaser, Comin&#8217; at Ya!, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/dear-3d-please-die-already-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dear 3D, Please Die Already (Again)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}