Some call it nauseating, a cheap gimmick, and even a con. Mission Impossible and the Cornetto trilogy's Simon Pegg once said it's a bit like "seeing someone you respect trying too hard. Like witnessing your dad in leather trousers," and Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee once referred to the medium simply as "purely bad." Then again, what would he know, he made 2003's Hulk.
Of course, I'm talking about 3D in movies, games, and media. Not the shift from pixels to polygons, but the "hand reaching out from the screen with a wink and a nod" kind of 3D — the kind of 3D I unashamedly love. To me, when done right, 3D media can transform screen into stage, and it doesn't bother me one iota that people look at me like I've just confessed to liking Ska music whenever I say so. In fact, as an act of defiance, I'll be quietly skanking my way through the remainder of this article in the background.
