Entertainment Geekly: My Bloody Valentine 3D Blu-ray Review
If 3D is supposed to be the future of home entertainment, and this is the best Blu-ray has to offer, I think I’ll stick with 2D…
There are so many, many reasons that My Bloody Valentine 3D doesn’t work in a home theatre environment. And this has nothing to do with the movie itself, but more the problems with the 3D technologies used.
For a start, the Blu-ray disc comes with a couple of pairs of 3D anaglyph cardboard glasses. This is probably the biggest let down – Instead of using the same technology as the cinema release with the polarised glasses, instead the entire film is a complete washout of pink. Nothing detracts from a film like losing all the colour from every scene. Not only that, but the 3D effect given by the anaglyph glasses is minor at best – a key scene where a pickaxe violently dislodges an eyeball has very little impact in terms of 3D
Second is the problem of distance. When I sat down with CEO of Dreamworks Jeffrey Katzenburg, one of the concerns he voiced was that for 3D to work properly, it needs to reach your peripheral vision. Even with 50 inches of plasma mounted on my wall, for the screen to hit my peripheral vision I’d need to be standing less than a metre away, which just doesn’t work.
Fortunately the Blu-ray disc also features a 2D version, letting you watch the film without the red/green glasses. Whether that in itself is enough to convince you to give it a go is another matter altogether, but ultimately, My Bloody Valentine 3D is proof that 3D is still a long way from being a part of your home cinema experience.
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Lets not overlook the fact that all of these “3D” techniques completely alienate people whose eyes, like mine, don’t focus on the same point. No amount of polarisation or multi-coloured lenses is going to fix that…
That’d be green/magenta, not red/green. But yeah, while anaglyph sucks, we won’t be seeing polarised glasses at home anytime soon. 120Hz displays, LCD shutter glasses and 3D-capable Blu-Ray players that connect the two are a lot more likely.
I don’t think full peripheral vision is a necessity. Nothing does that short of IMAX. More of a problem is focal disparity, where your eyes have to focus on your TV while simultaneously converging on a point at a different distance. Less of an issue when the screen is far away like in a cinema, but a real problem in the home.
3D will take off in the next few years when the new screens are available to buy. If you see 3D in the cinema it is a mazing, this is coming soon to homes.
regardless of what technology may or may not work together this film sucked ass! the 3-d nightmare on elm street was better. i’m pissed i spent the money for the 3-d version and it is to late to take it back. if i wanted a headache i could have turned the radio on for free!