We told you last month about NBC's plan to plug their shows during the Super Bowl game on February 1. Now it turns out that they're also going to show some stuff in 3-D.Two commercials during the game will be broadcast in 3-D: one is for the new animated movie Monsters vs. Aliens, and the other is another ad for Sobe that features wacky lizards dancing (because last year's ad was so great?). If, however, you're not a fan of commercials but are a fan of wearing red and blue eyewear, you're in luck: the episode of Chuck that airs the night after the game will also be shown in 3-D. You can get the glasses (thanks to Intel) in Sobe displays in supermarkets and other stores.
3-D movies and shows are always disappointing. For every effect that makes you smile, there are 27 that are just really lame. Besides, I think Heroes might be more fun in 3-D. I think it lends itself to 3-D more than a show like Chuck does. We'll probably have these silly scenes of Chuck throwing a cell phone towards the camera or someone suddenly using a javelin.
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1-07-2009 @ 11:31PM
Bryan Price said...
RE: JJ - "You're gonna knock an eye out!"
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1-08-2009 @ 12:33AM
Elf said...
For the Janet Jackson halftime performance, 3-D glasses would not have been required. I think 36-C glasses would have been sufficient.
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1-08-2009 @ 2:00AM
steve said...
ahh. reminds me of that arrested development episode where they made fun of this kinda stuff.
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1-08-2009 @ 3:58AM
Patrick said...
Ugh. I really wish the media companies would remember that not everyone likes 3D shows or movies. Some of us have vision problems that prevent us from being able to watch 3D programming (3D programming depends on viewers having more or less equivalent vision in both eyes, and if you're blind in one eye, it doesn't work).
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1-08-2009 @ 11:11AM
robert said...
i'm with you on that, the vision in my left eye is so bad that even corrected i'm unable to really see anything more than blurry shapes with limited detail.
no form of 3-D works for me and the old school red-blue glasses are the worst.
1-08-2009 @ 1:43PM
Lenny said...
My vision is pretty good, but I don't find much of this 3D to be very convincing. More often than not it just looks like a slight case of double-vision with a side order of splitting headache.