Additional aside:
In this "modern era" of 3d, I have only seen two 3d films: Avatar and Transformers 3.
I liked Avatar's 3d effects; I thought they were natural and well done.
In T3, I thought it was gawdawful and distracted from the experience. If, as I suspect, the majority of 3d films fall closer to Transformers 3 than Avatar, I will definitely be going out of my way to find 2d showings, or waiting until Blu-Ray. 'Cause, FUCK, the 3D was useless and annoying in this flick.