foiling pirates, and bumping up ticket prices.
I can't watch it, as it plays havoc with my already dodgy eyes.

Took 5 year-old son to Monsters vs Aliens. He wouldn't wear the glasses as he found them uncomfortable. Promising he'd wear them this time, we took him to How to Train Your Dragon accompanied by his 3-year-old sister. Both kids took their glasses off within 10 minutes. But I wouldn't say the 3D enhanced my enjoyment of either film - I was just as underwhelmed as you.

So we watched Toy Story 3 in glorious 2D and loved it (and saved ourselves a bit of money).

Watch films in 70mm on a huge screen than watch films in 3D.

Toy Story will be the last 3D I spring for...

Seen a few of the kids movies in 3D - I thought Monsters vs Aliens worked okay, but after that I've also been totally underwhelmed. I had high hopes for both the Toy Story 1&2 3D re-release and Toy Story 3 as those guys at Pixar tend to know what they are doing..... but again, totally underwhelmed.

The only movie that really did work in 3D and that was more for the "immersive" feel rather than the 3D effects was Avatar.

Kids, aged 8 and 5 went back to see it in 2D a week later, and enjoyed it far more.

It's a gimmick, and a means of charging extra.

Rubbish.

my local place charges the same as for a bog standard flick, but it's a Euro for the glasses...

but that said i'm sooooo there for Pirahna 3D.

Explotation movies are the only natural home for 3D.

I did. Thought the 3D effects were pretty good.

It's very simple. The reason that Toy Story 3 is the best 3D film that's out there is that the fact that it's in 3D is not the reason for its existence. The effects are subtle - so much so, that you forget it's in 3D at all - and one gets the feeling that it would be just as good in 2D. There are no POV shots of someone spitting into the loo, or stock shots of things that protrude or jump towards the viewer. 3D is a gimmick; nothing more. Take away that gimmick, and is there still a film of the same quality? As impressed as I was by Avatar at the time, I wouldn't want to think what it's like without the 3D spectacle. I mean, you might have to start paying attention to things like the script.

... Chesty Morgan's Deadly Weapons in 3D?

... now that TV and home video (and more & more cinema) is all digital, 3D strikes me as a case of they can do it because they have the technology and the bandwidth. Just because they can doesn't always mean they should.

That's not the whole story of course, but TV retailers have been complaining for a while about the price and margins on flat panel TVs. Retailers are lucky to be making 12% on a flat panel TV.

In doing some research for an article I wrote for a trade magazine a few months ago I found a press release from Hitachi from 1999 announcing the launch of a 1080i 42" plasma TV. Recommended retail price? $9,999.00. You can buy a 1080i 42" plasma (over here in the US at least) for less than $800 today. A 42" 1080P is around $1,000. You can imagine how TV retailers feel about that. And you can understand how grateful retailers are to have a new technology to sell. The 3D movie that was in theaters 3 months ago will be available on 3D Blu-Ray any day now and you can enjoy it in the comfort of your own home.

It's not surprising that several big electronics retailers have gone to the wall in the last couple of years.