3D cinema was the big idea that never took off - but with digital technology and better specs, will it finally to leap out and grab us?

By Paul Connolly. It’s the stupid goggles, right? Surely they are the reason why 3D movies – which have been around for more than a century and enjoyed a golden age in the 1950s with Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder and then a resurgence in the 1980s with classics such as Jaws 3-D – have never really taken off.

The glasses look stupid, fall apart at a touch, slip off your nose all too readily and are not so much 3D as 0D.

And if you’re a spectacles wearer, well, forget it – 3D movies are not for you. Read more …