Are there any websites or apps that not only review new movies, but also suggest if the movie is worth seeing in 3D? I usually don’t pay the extra for 3D, although some times I’m forced to if the only convenient showings are in 3D.
This site seems to be what you want, although I can’t vouch for its quality.
For home 3D it is pretty hard to top Pacific Rim. Perfect use of 3D by del Toro.
Thanks for inquiring about this, dalej. I am a semi-geek of 3D – and have the home projector to prove it – and I’m always on the lookout for well done 3D movies. Most 3D movies are perfectly fine in 2D, but three that stood out to me that should be viewed in 3D are:
Hugo
Gravity
Avatar
I had hoped for The Walk to be awesome in 3D, but it didn’t really grab me any more than the 2D version.
I’m curious if anyone has seen Mad Max in 3D and 2D and found the 3D version any more compelling.
The Jungle Book (2016) was an excellent 3D movie.
Coraline had some of the most innovative use of 3D I’ve ever seen. Not gimmicky in the least and added significantly to the story.
Dredd had terrific slow-motion 3D sequences, from the POV of users who took a drug - named SloMo - that slowed down their perception of reality and made it all sparkly: the results up on the big screen were quite beautiful.
I ended up with a 3-D plasma set and blu-ray player along with the glasses.
I’ve got a handful of 3-D movies and the only ones I really feel need to be seen in 3D are Tron:Legacy and Finding Nemo.
Pretty much nothing except Tron has felt like it used 3D as anything but a way to get an extra two bucks outta me. The computer world is well suited to the effect and it was a way to further indicate it’s changed from the real world.
Otherwise, occasionally a shot here or there looks good (Force Awakens made me know what a star destroyer in the eye feels like) but just as often there’re somtimes shots that just don’t come out quite right and devolve into a improperly separated mess.
Life of PI by Ang Lee. Coraline gets another vote.
Not a big fan of 3D, but Gravity made pretty good use of it.
Dr. Tongue wasn’t too bad.
Interesting how Wim Wenders seems so sold on 3D being the wave of the future.
I’m not so convinced.
It Came From Outer Spave still has some of the best use of 3D effects I’ve ever seen.
Beowulf impressed the hell out of me, back in the day.
2D animation, when converted to or adapted with 3D, seems to be pretty nifty as well, although I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing that much of it. And for a full-on marriage of the two, Paperman was pretty breathtaking in 3D.
Having read that article, I have absolutely no desire to see his drama 3D movie and am completely certain it is NOT the future except for block buster effects driven movies. Sorry Wim, you don’t win them all.
But yeah the 3D in “The Force Awakens” was pretty much the only thing I liked about it, but I saw it on 3D IMAX, not sure if it would have the same effect on a home 3D setup.
Doctor Strange was really good in 3D.
However, as of a few years ago, Coraline was only released in 3-d on video in the “old style” blue/red glasses 3-d, not polarizing 3-d. I haven’t seen it in that format to know whether the 3-d is still as amazing in that format, but all in all it is by far the best 3-d movie I have ever seen. The only film I’d give more technical props to is Avatar because it is harder to create a “realistic” looking 3-d live action film, but Coraline is the stronger movie beyond just visuals. (As a matter of fact I’d say that the 3-D theatre Coraline is my favorite movie ever.)
As far as other movies whose 3-d added to the experience, I’d say last year’s Star Wars counts in that 3-D added a little to the experience. Tron, Prometheus, and the Hobbit movies were spotty – sometimes it added something, sometimes it seemed like it wasn’t even 3-D, and for the Hobbit movies, it sometimes even made the experience worse because it made the already-present blurriness stick out even more.
I watched this today and was thinking how great the 3D was, particularly the mirror dimension scenes in NYC.
Other than that my top 5 would probably be:
Avatar
Life of Pi
Gravity
Hugo
Jungle Book
Most Pixar films make good use of 3d as well and I can’t wait to see what they do with the next Incredibles film. The first one had some great action scenes which would worked great in 3D.
Need to give a shout out to the best use of 3D in a documentary: Cave of Forgotten Dreams.