3D movies, Yay or nay?

3D movies - once it was a myth – now it’s happening. As 3D technology progresses an ever increasing number of movies, especially some old classics, are being rendered from their initial 2D patterns into 3D scenes. While this has a few people amped up for remembering their most loved movie in theaters, but, it has also quite agitated others. Some people love or hate 3D movies, based on their experience of sickness or enjoyment. It’s all likely in their mind.

In Pakistan, 3D cinemas started screening in 2010 when atrium cinema launched in Karachi. Nadeem Mandviwala, director of Atrium Cinemas Karachi, said that he first saw 3D movie in 1983 and then it took him 27 years to bring 3D technology to Pakistan. 3 Bahadur was the first Pakistan-owned 3D movie that screened by Atrium Cinema, Karachi. And it’s still going with the same pace, Cine Star, Cinepax, Cineplex, Nueplex, Centaurus have been launched that give high-quality and IMAX 3D technology to the viewers. But the debate remains the same, is 3D as successful as it ought to be?

Yet 3D has not turn out to be as admired as some might have anticipated. Many people say watching 3D gives them awful side-effects such as nuisance or nausea. The legitimacy of today's 3D blockbusters can overwhelm audiences. By using 3D glasses to exhibit various pictures to the two eyes, stereoscopic 3D technology tricks the mind into trusting it is watching scene instead of a flat image on a screen. Presently 3D TVs empower viewers to encounter the effect at home too.

What the interest of 3D in motion picture theaters is, mostly as it collapse the movie going impact. It transforms it into a spectacle that takes away the concentration of what's really happening onscreen - the story, the on-screen characters, and the composition of the plot. But you have to wear glasses if you want to utilize your ticket.