The downside to living in the Silly Valley of the East...

[jsbowden]

Finding a theater that WASN'T showing Coraline in 3d. I think there my be three in the entire DC metro area.

Those of us with monocular vision require 2d screenings, and my wife says that wearing 3d glasses over regular glasses is massive suckage.

So, even if you CAN do 3d, how about do those of us who can't or would prefer not to deal with it a favor and do a 2d screening along side the 3d?

Or die in a fucking fire while I wait and just Netflix it when available.

The movie itself, while not a straight adaptation, is great.

Comments

[tober.livejournal.com]

I thought Boston was the Silicon Valley of the east. In any case, I have the same problem (born with strabismus which was corrected last summer, never had binocular vision). I'm planning to suck it up and go see the movie in 3D tomorrow anyways because I can't find a non-3D screening. At least it's either orthogonally polarized glasses or shutter glasses, not red-green glasses (which I think are considerably worse for those of us who have monocular vision).

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

:blink: on opening weekend tere were only a few 3d showings. UA bethesda, for example, was 2d.

thanks for the warningn about the glasses; shall try to remember to wear contacts

also it'll be in 2d all over after the next 3d thing comes out next week.

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I think the 3d adds all that much, anyway. But that is pretty annoying.

[ceara.livejournal.com]

We were stuck with 3D, as my objections to it didn't extend to driving 200 miles to the nearest non-crapsack theater showing it in 2D. Still, it made me really cranky. (Also, there's one cinema in town that serves food at your seat and doesn't allow anyone under 17 after 8 pm, which is obviously the venue of choice for those who want to see children's movies without children present, but no 3D screens there. Annoyance upon annoyance.)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I live in Seattle and had to drive to Lynnwood, a suburban wasteland a little north of me, to see it in 2D. Then, I saw it again in Seattle where they were only playing it in 3D with some other friends.

None of us really liked the 3D experience. The one or two minutes of 'oh, look, the needle's coming out right at us' wasn't worth the glasses, the slight disorientated feelings, etc.

All the previews were lauding the coming onslaught of movies in 3D. Boo.