I'm not defending 3D by the way. I find it useless to most movies (and alas so far all movies I've seen where it added something were movies that sucked anyway) and distracting for the most part. I totally disagree with ironclad it's a more immersive experience, to me it's the opposite and gimmicky (I hate it when stuff in movies make me think too much of the technology behind them) and as I almost always get bad headaches when I work for more than 30 min with the damned 3D glasses on, the last thing I'd want is put them on on my leisure time to see movies. The only movie I'm considering seeing in 3D this year is Tintin, as I'm curious to see what one of the best American directors of blockbusters has done with it - and because it's animation and so won't be as distracting to the flow of the movie.
I don't think about the technology during the film. I mean, it depends. They should never go overboard with the "in your face" effects, because those actually do make you notice you are watching a "ride" from a secure seat. But the depth I saw in Avatar or some scenes of Tintin made me part of it all and that was among the most fun I had at the movies in recent years.
When Jackson says in this feature that some people who watched the early 3D footage already thought he cut the cinema walls open and actors were playing the scenes behind it, it sounds very promising as far as I am concerned.
Some of that comes from my job. I can usually make abstraction of most VFX as long as they are unobstrusive (at least in drama, in action movies I don't mind bolder stuff) and get distracted only by errors and such, or by extremely clever stuff that spark professional curiosity at the wrong time, but with 3D so far it's never been good enough that it could forget about the technique behind it, or find it believable. I don't think the technology at this point gives very impressive results. In a few years, no doubt this will get much better, but for it's still pretty much at the same early stage as I had seen many years ago from early tests from a developper.
I still perceive faked depth when I see it - that's very cool for some scenes when you watch only those (like on a 3D demo reel I saw last year at the "office"

I'm mildly curious to see what Jackson will make of it too, but I'm not very interested in his Hobbit (never liked the book to begin with, and find Jackson's idea to "LOTR-ize" it and inflate it to two movies kind of weird).
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