Great moments in 3-D movie history

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The truth about 3-D movies is that only a few of them are even okay, and most of them were really boring and bad. That makes perfect sense-- if the movies had been good, they wouldn't have needed the special 3-D effects. For every House of Wax, Creature from the Black Lagoon, or even Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, there were many more duds like Bwana Devil and Robot Monster.

I think 3-D is much better suited to jokes about the process itself, like SCTV horror parodies Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Slave Chicks and sequels 3-D House of Pancakes and 3-D House of Representatives. And, best of all, this trailer for Albert Brooks' first feature, Real Life. It has absolutely nothing to do with the movie itself (other than a brief 10-second spiel in the middle), and is a classic Brooks short film all by itself. Don't worry if you don't have a pair of 3-D glasses-- just borrow some red and blue cellophane from the person next to you.