Analysis Of 'Why I Hate 3-D'

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The film industry has always been a modern industry where new inventions are constantly on the rise and put into films to improve the film lovers’ movie experiences. Just a few years ago, the world was introduced to a new third dimension. Instead of just using your imagination to put yourself in the same room as the characters on the screen, the 3-D effect did it for you. In Roger Ebert’s “Why I Hate 3-D,” (And You Should Too) he states his many arguments and then gives good supporting evidence that have some very significant points about 3-D that people don’t take into consideration. Even though his personal opinion and feelings clearly shine throughout the article, it gives the reader something to really think about. As a film lover and a free time film critic as I am, I love reading articles like Ebert’s where the main point is strongly connected to my own thoughts. His article about 3-D movies is basically my exact opinion. Roger Ebert is a film critic who was the first person to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He has been working as a film critic …show more content…

He is the director of the famous Lord Of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit movies. When the Lord Of The Rings movies came out in 2001, 2002, and 2003, 3-D movies were not popularized yet, but the effects of the movie were so astonishing that film critics around the world acknowledged that they were the best films made yet and that they were so ahead of time with its effects and resolution. However, when The Hobbit’s first movie had its premier in 2012 with 3-D effect as an option, it did not get the same response as the Lord Of The Rings movies. Don’t get me wrong, the effects were still something over the top, but what the 3-D effect did was making the shots seem like the movie almost was animated. The effects were so good that mixed with the 3-D, people couldn’t tell if there were real actors or a computer who made up the

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