Why 3D is rubbish
[Philip Lelyveld comment: this is mainly a complaint about the miniaturization effect of poorly-engineered 3D.]
I went to see the second 3D film this afternoon, which may account for my rather foul mood. It was a film I will have the pleasure of reviewing in The Press newspaper next week. It's an Australian shark movie called Bait, and boy did it suck. This is not giving anything away here, but there is a sequence where a giant tsunami washes away an Australian coastal city. In 3D, the giant wave swallowing up apartment blocks looked like a spilt cup of coffee knocking over a matchbox.
I'm not the only one to notice this. Guillermo del Toro, who is a cinematic genius, worried that his giant monsters and robots movie, Pacific Rim, would be ruined by the miniaturising effect of 3D.
See the full story here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/the-picture-palace/7905524/Why-3D-is-rubbish