Switching Topics to 3D

I'm going to stop talking about technology stuff for a while, because, quite frankly, I'm burned out on it. It's only been two days of Apple and Microsoft, and I'm already bored with them. So, on to a topic that both angers me and fuels me to write originally instead of just "covering" something.

Numerous 3D films are in production and many are still in planning stages (up to 2013). Most of them don't even need to be done in 3D. It's mainly done as a gimmick. Good original stories are being thrown to the sidelines for cheap thrills of "Woooaaaahhh, it totally, like, looks like it's coming at me." Don't get me wrong, it's cool technology and all, but there comes to be a point where it's just sensationalism. 3D doesn't necessarily bring anything to the table and provides more of a hinderance. There's almost a stop in the story, every time they have to "remind" the audience that they're watching a 3D movie. For example, in Monsters vs. Aliens, does the boss really need to stop talking to play paddle ball? Do I really need to see Scrooge get high on PCP and shoom around the screen like a bat out of hell?

It almost scares me to think that kids will grow up on these 3D experiences and look at normal movies as a thing of the past. Every movie by 2024 will have to be chock full of gimmicky sequences of people falling towards you, explosions and a tire comes straight at you, bumper pool from the perspective of of the pool que, it'll even invade the porn sector and we'll have money shots that make you feel in the scene.

The only real innovation that I saw made use of the 3D was Up. When life is happy, things are huge, there's depth, there's saturated color that bursts out, feeding your eyes with nothing but beautiful imagery that you can't cease to take in. But then there are low points in the film. Where the older man just slugs himself around in a very flat, boringly mute color space house. As the film unfolds, so do the visuals. It's a really thought out movie, all the way through and if that's what 3D can do for movies, then I'll take everything back. Unfortunately for Pixar, Toy Story 3, just looks like a half baked idea, that was just being made to fund their next endeavor.

Plot spoiler: You find out that the toys aren't really alive, and that the kid suffers from a severe form of depression where he disconnects from the real world to make up "fathers" that he never had in real life.