Gaudy 3D

Just to say that I did not like 'Avator' but really enjoyed Guy Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes' - what was there not to like?

'Avator' was my first 3D movie and I found the experience well, gaudy; unecessarily over the top. I've seen film that has transported me over the years to different worlds and I have found them totally captivating. I never forget the first 'Star Wars' movie and being enthralled. When I look back now of course, by today's standards the effects are lame, but back then they were not, I believed in them and that was without 3D.

I cannot equate with the visual effects for 'Avator', and this is not just because the story was shallow and lame. To begin, I kept wanting to take my 3D specs off out of curiousity to see what the film looked like without them. Not that different really, and this was a little dissapointing, not a real portal to another dimension after all, a bit of a sham I remember thinking. And one more thing, the 3D experience made me feel ever so slightly queasy, sort of vaguely travel sick.

And of course if I was more concerned about the specs and the cleverness of the cinematic effects, the real magic of being taken up by the film had not occurred. In other words I didn't believe it and I remained outside of the experience. I had not been transported like I was when I saw Sherlock Holmes.

Maybe it would be unfair to judge on the strength of just one film whether cinema will benefit using 3D effect. At the moment however, I find the specs just too disconcerting.