3D movie headaches

[HotHolly]

3D movies used to give me a nasty headache - felt like premigrane stage. For some reason my eyes dont want to focus. That was with the old 3D - red and blue lenses.

Now with the new ones, I thought I had a little eye strain, but nothing that bad. I didnt think I was coming out that messed up. Holy was I wrong.

I went to see the Princess and the Frog. That was the 1st movie have seen in a while where I left without having a nasty headache and eye strain.

Does that happen to anyone else? Its only with the 3D movies. Since everything is going all 3D, the movies totally suck for me now.

[Roy]

I don't care for the 3D movies, at least the ones I've seen so far. A quality job on 2D suits me fine.

[Imagebuffet]

Several years ago, I went to an IMax presentation of "Space Station 3D." IMax used polarized glasses, which fit over my regular glasses, to achieve the 3-D effect. I had not problem with it and the effect was realistic. I greatly enjoyed the movie.

[JohnT]

Originally Posted by Roy

I don't care for the 3D movies, at least the ones I've seen so far. A quality job on 2D suits me fine.

Same here.

[zeroendless]

I've avoid 3D movies for as long as i could due to migraine. But last year, i was forced to seated though the Monster vs Aliens 3D private preview at Dreamworks campus and it was a torture! I felt like throwing up and have to remove the glass, close my eyes for every 15 minutes or so... I couldn't walk out because that would be very rude considering Jeffrey Katzenberg was in the crowd. :)

But the 3D prototype Blu-ray version of the movie, viewed with a passive clear polarized lenses was breathtaking. Theater's one? Forget about it!

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Back in 1973/74 Andy Warhol did a 3-D movie-FRANKENSTEIN- and he used Polarized lenses, one lens was at one angle and the other was at another angle and if you looked at the movie without the glasses you could see the two images over each other with the angle shift and if you looked at say something in the theatre you just looked as if you were wearing sunglasses. Well those special effects were very good (more so in the center of the screen) and I wondered why no one else used that technology for their 3-D's since the colors were excellent in the movie and the 3-D effect was extremely sharp. (one scene a person who has had their body ripped open falls onto a grate and their innards start falling down with the camera under the grate-I remember people trying to dodge the guts-also a scene where a well endowed female thrusts her bared breasts at the audience and you thought that they would hit you in the face and then there is the hedge shears that are used to attack someone [remember that I saw this back 35 years ago and those scenes are stuck in my head]). So good 3-D can really have an impact on people and it has been around that long. I guess the cost of the glasses in this version just make it a bit costly and that you have to be precise with the lens alignment which means that every pair has to be checked in some way. Also if I remember right that you couldn't really tilt your head too much or the image would get goofy.