SvennoJ said:
nanarchy said:
Kaizar said:
Over 70% of Americans like 3D, and over 90% of foriegners like 3D.
People already have Netflix & Hulu Plus & Blockbuster & Redbox & Vudu & etc. etc. for 2D movies, so why spend $10 to see in theaters when you only spend $1 to $8 a month to see on your own time?
The 2013 predictions have clearly failed as Great Gatsby & Man of Steel & so fort have already shown.
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could you provide some citations of where you are getting these numbers. Not saying they are wrong but they are hard to believe. I would have trouble finding more than half a dozen of my friends that will even put up with 3D and of them I only know 2 that actually like it. 90% sounds like BS. I have Netflix too, I still go to the cinema as the experience is better, 3D to myself and many others detracts from that experience significantly. It will also take a lot more than a few blockbuster movies to make this year not a decline and it is still way too early to tell on that front.
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I think he's referring to Russia and China, where indeed you can get the bootleg 2D version as soon as or before the movie comes out. (unlike the netflix excuse where you have to wait a year at least) And it's still considered cool there.
http://www.theloop.ca/showbiz/movies/news/article/-/a/2230761/3D-movies-are-cooler-in-China
The Wrap reports that between 40 and 60 percent of U.S. box office returns come from the 3D versions of new films (around half of all moviegoers choose to see the regular, non-3D version). Elsewhere, that figure is as high as 90 percent. Russian and Chinese audiences are flocking to 3D films at a rate much higher than their American counterparts
Not 70% of Americans btw.
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2012 had like 601 movies with up to 45 of them having a 3D version.
Basically less then 1/12 of those movies where in 3D with a cheaper 2D alternative version to pay for, but somehow the 3D movie screenings of movies that make up less then 10% of all movies made up 40% to 60% of profits in theaters when they only charge $1 to $3 more then a 2D movie screening cost.
So nice way to doge reality like your source did.
Posting your source for more people to crunch the numbers that all your links intentionally ignore:
http://www.theloop.ca/showbiz/movies/news/article/-/a/2230761/3D-movies-are-cooler-in-China
So clearly in 2013, more then 70% of Americans right now, currently like 3D movies.
