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John Carter 3D rant.
Mar. 12th, 2012 05:51 pmI was reading the New York Times today and they had yet another article about how the movie didn't so great this weekend at the box office. I found it interesting that they mentioned all this behind the scenes stuff for what went wrong with the movie but they didn't once bring up that many people refuse to watch movies in 3D.
I know for myself I didn't get to see the movie until Sunday afternoon at 4pm because they only had 2 non-3D showings this weekend 4pm and the other at 10pm. On Friday night there was no way I could make the 4pm or the 10pm showing. I couldn't stay up until midnight because I had early morning plans on Saturday. Sunday was the soonest we could see it. I can tell you the showing I went to was sold out. I can't help but think if they saved their money and skipped 3D Disney would have made more money on this movie. I don't know how much 3D costs to put on a movie but I kind of want to tell the studio people to save their money and spend it on marketing, other special effects, or better writers. Or just pocket the money and produce something else with it. Whatever they spent is far too much if it is keeping people from seeing their movie.
I know I'm not the only one that detests 3D. My husband I both got headaches last time we tried a 3D movie and the 3D costs five dollars more on top of an already expensive ticket. For a Disney movie you would think the people in charge would expect parents to bring kids to watch the movie, but they don't ask how is a family supposed to afford 3D prices??? It cost me and my husband 20 dollars to see a matinee movie. I imagine for a family of four that would be 40 and that's without popcorn or drinks.
For once, I would like to see an article that points to 3D as the main reason people didn't see the movie. Because it's been proven time and again that people will pay to watch crap *cough* Transformers *cough.* Quality isn't the reason for why people aren't seeing the movie.
To be fair John Carter was a lot of fun to watch and I thought a good family movie. It was just really frustrating that they only had two available showtimes for people who did not want to see the movie in 3D. I imagine there were other people who could not make either of those two showtimes and decided to wait till next weekend or wait until the movie is out on DVD.
I know for myself I didn't get to see the movie until Sunday afternoon at 4pm because they only had 2 non-3D showings this weekend 4pm and the other at 10pm. On Friday night there was no way I could make the 4pm or the 10pm showing. I couldn't stay up until midnight because I had early morning plans on Saturday. Sunday was the soonest we could see it. I can tell you the showing I went to was sold out. I can't help but think if they saved their money and skipped 3D Disney would have made more money on this movie. I don't know how much 3D costs to put on a movie but I kind of want to tell the studio people to save their money and spend it on marketing, other special effects, or better writers. Or just pocket the money and produce something else with it. Whatever they spent is far too much if it is keeping people from seeing their movie.
I know I'm not the only one that detests 3D. My husband I both got headaches last time we tried a 3D movie and the 3D costs five dollars more on top of an already expensive ticket. For a Disney movie you would think the people in charge would expect parents to bring kids to watch the movie, but they don't ask how is a family supposed to afford 3D prices??? It cost me and my husband 20 dollars to see a matinee movie. I imagine for a family of four that would be 40 and that's without popcorn or drinks.
For once, I would like to see an article that points to 3D as the main reason people didn't see the movie. Because it's been proven time and again that people will pay to watch crap *cough* Transformers *cough.* Quality isn't the reason for why people aren't seeing the movie.
To be fair John Carter was a lot of fun to watch and I thought a good family movie. It was just really frustrating that they only had two available showtimes for people who did not want to see the movie in 3D. I imagine there were other people who could not make either of those two showtimes and decided to wait till next weekend or wait until the movie is out on DVD.