For my Spokane Public Radio movie review this morning, I discussed "Hugo." Not a big fan, for reasons that I enumerate, mainly involving director Martin Scorsese's inability to follow a fairy-tale rendering of fantasy the way he does so naturally with hard-edged stories such as "Mean Streets," "Goodfellas" or "The Departed."

One thing I didn't mention, however, was his use of 3-D. Not that impressive. Oh, it's OK, as is the whole visual package. But it's just curiously lackluster, about as far from "Avatar" as it is from, hmmm, "Beowulf." I still prefer what Werner Herzog did with "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," which at least amplified the images Herzog captured without drawing undue attenttion to themselves.

Below: The trailer for Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."