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[[File:bwana-devil.jpg|frame|3D! The wave of the future! Color? Pfft. [[It Will Never Catch On|It'll never catch on]].]]
{{quote|''"IT'S LIKE I CAN TOUCH YOU!"''|''[[Don Hertzfeldt|The Animation Show]] host, after [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}BXZN9S7a5xk trying on 3D glasses for the first time]''}}
'''3D movies''' first became a fad for a few short years in the 1950s; they were expensive to show and required special equipment that was often not used correctly. A second 3D movie fad began in the early 1980s with the low budget Western ''Comin' At Ya!''; this was when film franchises started releasing their [[Third Is 3D|third movies in 3D]], and television station would even occasionally show 1950s 3D movies using red/blue glasses.
After trickling out around 1984 or so, 3D movies came around again in the 2000s, creating the third 3D movie fad. Advances in computer technology made it much easier to create 3D movies in general, and especially in computer animation. This is also after IMAX had spread. People have noted modern 3D has worked best with animation with animated feature films being the most highly praised 3D productions to date such as ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'' (98% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]) and ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' (99%). However, the increased costs to produce 3D movies, coupled with the recent decline in
3D Movies have their own variation of [[Shoot the Money]] where things will jut out towards the audience a lot more frequently than would occur in a 2D movie.
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Thanks to the proliferation of 3D movies, studios naturally have jumped at the chance to [[Money, Dear Boy|get more money out of their audiences]] by converting movies into 3D which were shot "flat" (with only one camera). However, this often turns out imperfectly, due to having to squeeze a lot of intricate post-production work (imagine having to cut out a piece of an image in Photoshop, then adjust it to move twenty-four times a second—now imagine doing it for multiple layers of an image, for the entire length of a feature film) into the short period before a fast approaching release date. Critics such as [[Roger Ebert]], already pretty biased against 3D, are even more venomous towards fake 3D.
It has been noted by several of these critics that, like the other big periods of 3D movies in the 1950s and 1980s, the recent boom of 3D releases comes when Hollywood's profit margins are significantly under threat by an outside force (television in the first case, home recording and VHS in the second, downloading and DVD today) with the consequence that studios are desperately looking for any old gimmick that will get people into movie seats. There has also been some recent [https://web.archive.org/web/20110501035944/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html concern] about 3D movies wreaking havoc with the focus and convergence of people's vision. Another issue has been a few theaters being too lazy to change out the 3D lens of their projectors when they put on a 2D movie instead, leaving those patrons stuck with a very dim image on the screen to watch.
See [[Three Dimensional Episode]] for non-3D series with episodes in 3D. (Which can overlap with 3D movies if it's a series of movies.)
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== Movies Filmed in 3D ==
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* ''[[Bolt]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Fly Me to the Moon]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Journey to
* ''[[Astro Boy (film)|Astro Boy]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' (2009). [[James Cameron]] created a lot of the 3D filming technology used today for this movie and let other film-makers have it in an attempt to revive the 3D film fad [[The Chessmaster|so that there will be a 3D film fad when his movie comes out]]. It was regarded as the movie that really showed how 3D was more than just a gimmick and utilized the depth of it. To the extent that even [[Roger Ebert]] praised it.
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* ''My Bloody Valentine 3D'' (2009)
* ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' is an interesting example. While the real-world scenes were shot in 2D, the scenes on The Grid were shot using [[James Cameron]]'s [http://avatarblog.typepad.com/avatar-blog/2010/05/new-technology-in-avatar-performance-capture-fusion-camera-system-and-simulcam.html Fusion Camera System,] complete with IMAX-3D format film.
* ''[[Up]]'' (2009), the first 3D [[Pixar]] movie, though it was also released in 2D. During his review [[Roger Ebert]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110809172138/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/05/up_up_and_away_in_my_beautiful.html ranted at length] about how inferior the 3D version must be and also admitted that [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|he hadn't even seen]] the 3D version. His arguments through the years about how 3D can negatively affect a film have been [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207230520/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/08/dminus_for_3d.html pretty persuasive]. He mellowed out for ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', though, as noted.
* ''[[Hannah Montana]]/Miley Cyrus The Best of Both Worlds Concert in Disney Digital 3D''.
* ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]] [[The Movie]]: The Fateful War''. This was the 1st sentai series to have a movie fully shot in Digital 3D.
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** ''[[Disney Animated Canon|Mickey's Philharmagic]]'' (2003), [[Visual Effects of Awesome|which is their best so far.]]
* Via [[Follow the Leader]], Universal parks brought us ''[[The Terminator|T2 3-D: Battle Across Time]]'' and ''[[Shrek]] 4-D'' (which has nothing to do with ''Shrek Forever After'', by the way).
* Averted with ''[[Scott Pilgrim|Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', which is reported to have been filmed in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130723024030/http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/breaking-scott-pilgrim-in-2d-colea.php revolutionary 2D.]
* ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]: Dark of the Moon''. We can only hope they don't retitle it to ''Transformers 3-D''.
* ''[[Contagion]]'' was supposed to be shot in 3-D but the first camera tests (from a new camera being tested for the first time) weren't satisfactory, so it was shot flat. Same with [[Inception]].
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* ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Megamind]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Resident Evil: Afterlife]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Saw]] 3D'' (2010)
* ''[[Shrek]] Forever After'' (2010)
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* ''[[Step Up]] 3D'' (2010)
* ''[[Tangled]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' (2010)
* ''[[Yogi Bear]]'' (2010)
* ''The Adventures of [[Tintin (film)|Tintin]]'' (2011)
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== Movies Filmed in 2D and Converted to 3D ==
* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', originally a fully 2D [[Stop Motion]] picture from 1993, got a 2006 touch-up as a 3D Movie for its theatrical seasonal re-release for Halloween 2006. It's been re-released in October each year.
* The two ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' films also received a 3D touch-up in October 2009 as a lead-up to ''Toy Story 3''. The UK had to wait until January 2010 for ''Toy Story 2'' to be released in 3D. The "fake 3D" effect was averted, thanks to the nature of CG animation: Pixar could simply re-render the whole film from the masters with a split virtual camera. Other such post-3D CGI movies include:
** The first three ''[[Shrek]]'' movies (on BD only)
** ''[[Elephants Dream]]'' (and presumably, the other two [[Big Buck Bunny|Blender]] [[Sintel|Foundation]] shorts will be soon)
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* ''[[Piranha 3D]]''.
* ''[[My Soul to Take]]''
* ''[[Harry Potter and
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''
* ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' with [[Jack Black]].
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* ''Cyberworld 3-D'', in which the entire selling point was "Watch clips from ''[[Antz]]'' and the Homer 3 segment from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' converted to 3-D".
* The 2012 re-release of ''[[Top Gun]]''.
* For IMAX screenings, a portion of ''[[Superman Returns]]'' was converted into 3D; similar partial conversions were done on ''[[
* ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' (2009 conversion of the 1979 original)
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{{quote|'''Murdock''' You can see these bullets in 3D! It's like we're actually being shot at!
'''B.A. Baracus''' We are getting shot at you crazy ass fool! }}
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Tenth Doctor uses what look like 3D glasses to see the background radiation of the void (the gap between parallel universes) in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/
* Fry and Leela attend a 3D movie in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Fear of a Bot Planet". The glasses don't work on the one-eyed Leela, however.
* ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]'': Scooter works at a theater showing a 3D movie. Advertising for [[The Muppets (film)|the 2011 film]] would later make a point of the fact that the film was ''not'' in 3D
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* One episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had the crew watching a 1950s 3D movie with red/blue glasses on the holodeck, and [[Techno Wizard|B'Elanna]] [[Lampshade Hanging|points out]] to [[Fan of the Past|Tom]] (who created this holodeck simulation) how absurd it is to use a technology capable of producing ''solid'' 3D images to [[Retraux|simulate a cinema in which a 2D film uses effects to seem 3D]]. He dismisses her objection basically on the principle of [[Rule of Cool]].
* Parson in ''[[Erfworld]]'' acquires a pair of red/blue glasses that enable him to see characters' and creatures' [[RPG Mechanics Verse|combat and movement stats]].
* An episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'''s [[Show Within a Show]] ''Tool Time'' was shot in 3D. When asked how 3D belonged on a legitimate show about construction Tim replied that it didn't, hence [[Self-Deprecation|why they were doing it on]] ''Tool Time''.
* This trope was parodied by [[Sock Tube Presents]].
* [[SCTV]]'s Count Floyd occasionally ran a low-budget "3D" horror flick, notably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87WgmGHz9U4 Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Stewardesses]. They did several of these, including ''Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Slave Chicks'' (in Smell-A-Rama!), and a few-second-long "peek" at ''Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Pancakes''.
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** Some of the cutscenes were later put together and turned into an actual (eight-minute) 3D Movie as a bonus feature on the ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|SBCG4AP]]'' DVD. The DVD doesn't come with 3D glasses, though.
** You can play the PC version of the game in 3D (if you have the graphics card and drivers in order to do so).
* [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1985/09/14/ This]{{Dead link}} ''[[Garfield]]'' comic from the mid eighties.
{{quote|'''John:''' Why did we waste our evening at that movie? And why was the photography so bad?
'''Garfield:''' And why did they hand me three pairs of 3-D glasses? }}
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* The [[Sega Master System]] also used the field-sequential process for its SegaScope 3-D games, of which eight were produced: ''Blade Eagle 3-D'', ''Line of Fire'', ''Maze Hunter 3-D'', ''Missile Defense 3-D'', ''[[Out Run]] 3-D'', ''Poseidon Wars 3-D'', ''[[Space Harrier]] 3-D'' and ''[[Zaxxon]] 3-D''.
* ''[[Starship Titanic]]'' came with anaglyph glasses for a certain puzzle involving a starfield.
* [[Sega]]'s ''SubRoc-3D'' in 1982 was the first 3D [[Arcade Game]], with shutter glasses attached to the cabinet. (It was ported to the [[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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