Agreed. In many theaters it depends on what night u go to the theater. 2D options are not always available every night. And usually on the big nights like Friday and Saturday nights only 3D is available.

Id like to see your research on that, because the major chains currently have less than half their screens with 3D projectors, and aim to achieve higher percentages.

So your assumption that more people go to 3D because they don’t have the option is just statistically incorrect.

I don’t know how things are in Canada, but many of us here in the U.S. are reporting that we don’t have the 2D option. I may be able to travel an “extra 15 mins” to see a movie in 2D but that would be on some shitty 15 foot screen. And I’m lucky to even have that option.

Man the complaint wasn’t about the drive. The complaint was that there are a lot of us who don’t like cheap 3D that is only put on the film to make extra money and it sucks for us that don’t have a choice. I wish I was fortunate enough to have the choice to see films in 2D. You can love 3D all you want but the end of the day, it is mostly used as a gimmick to get people to spend more money at the theatre, regardless wether the tech is better now then it was in the past. And I’m not saying its going to go away either. But the only exception here is that a few of the films with 3D actually benefit from it and as for the rest, it doesn’t enhance the experience, just the cost of the ticket. And that is why whenever there is a post here about 3D, most of the comments are about how much it sucks. The reason 3D films sell more tickets then their 2D version is because many people DON’T HAVE THE OPTION! It’s not because they prefer them.

Even if it was in 3D, you would still have the option to attend 2d.

“A lot of us” is a wide generalization when in reality it is still a rare situation that you would not be given the option of both.

It might not be 99.999%, but its still the vast majority, of which you are still the exception to the rule, not proof against it.

Nearest town is 3 hours away? Be thankful you HAVE a theater.

What! My point was that there are many people who don’t have the option to see a 3D film in 2D. You were making the generalization that almost everyone (99.9999%) are able to choose whether they see a movie in 3D or not. But there are a lot of us who either see a film at the inflated 3D prices or not see it at all, thus going back to Cloud’s original point about how some don’t want to travel just to see a film in 3D. Your right, I don’t have the option. The option to NOT see a film in 3D, like I want.

You are just proving my point that situations where there are no 3d options are rare and the massive majority of the population do have that option.

If the next closest town is 3 hours away then you are the exception. Not the proof.

The IMAX version of Order of the Phoenix had the last 20-30 minutes in 3d. It was pretty much just the final big battle IIRC. The 3d was okay, not great, but not awful and totally distracting either. Apparantly Half-Blood Prince had the opening sequence in the IMAX version in 3d as well, although I didn’t personally see the IMAX version of that one.

Ya Rodney . . . your assessment of 99.999% of the country not having the problem with only getting a movie in 3D is quite inaccurate. I live in Kansas and we have 1 theatre in town and if the film comes out in 3D, we get it in 3D. No other options. The next closest town with a theatre is 60 miles away and has only one screen, which was just updated to 3D, so now they get 3D only. Almost every town in the area, even the ones with a theatre with more then one screen only get the films in 3D. I have to drive a minimum of 3 hours to go to a theatre that shows a film in both 3D and 2D. And I know there are plenty of other states that have this problem as well. It’s just not an option for people who don’t live on the coasts or near cities. And we make up more then 0.0001% of the population. Just throwing that out there.