Well I think the reference you're citing is more about the length of the film - 3 hours and 45 minutes - moreso than the fact that it's in Technicolor. A closer parallel would be comparing Gone With the Wind to a Michael Bay Transformers film, in that almost 3 hours of cinema is typically hard on the viewer, and moreso when there are tons of visual explosions and loud sounds that wear down on an audience.

I love THX theater sound. SDDS. All of them. However, those tools can be very much abused by certain practitioners, and that's not the tech's fault. Basically I think that improvements are welcomed but gimmicks never last. Is VR a new gimmick in the grand context of entertainment? We're about to find out it seems.

> Well I think the reference you're citing is more about the length of the film - 3 hours and 45 minutes - moreso than the fact that it's in Technicolor.

It's both – if the film had been in black and white, the comment would not have been made, nor if the Technicolor portion of the film were shorter (e.g. in The Wizard of Oz, which the reviewer had seen some months prior).

Okay I mean I follow your assertion, but I don't ascribe that much weight to the mention of color versus the context of the length of the picture.

One thing this discussion does bring up though is that if VR can only be worn comfortably for 20-40 minutes, will it have a viable mainstream future?

I'm fairly confident that the VR headsets of today are equivalent to the bulky brick-size cellphones of yesteryear – the utility they provide to the early adopters is more than enough to offset their cumbersome nature right now, but in 10 years' time everyone will want one, and they'll be priced much more competitively.

...or the production quality might degrade to the point of bursting into flames, like those $XXX self-powered scooter boards, which dampens the appeal.

To be honest, it _was_ a long picture.