3-D movies... really?

It seems like movies are beginning to be generated towards 3-D. So far I have seen 4 movies in 3-D at the theatre: Disney's A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, and even Spy Kids 3 back in the day. I will admit it was different to experience a movie in 3-D, but after the first 5 minutes or so I hardly noticed it was in 3-D. I always come out wondering why I have those ugly glasses on my face, thats how much I would forget the movie was 3-D.

Now you may be wondering where I am going with this... but it seems to me that the directors created shots in the first few minutes of the film specifically to entertain the 3-D hungry audiences. Then after those few minutes... whoever was in charge of special effects got lazy. I mean the 3-D is not so obvious or fun for the rest of the movie, only during specific climaxes. So it makes me ask myself... is it really worth the extra $3 to see 3 minutes of really cool 3-D and then 2 hours of crappy 3-D? Being an extremely poor college student... not really.

I guess when I think of 3-D, I expect the amusement park type 3-D. I know when I would see the 3-D shows at SeaWorld, Disney World, etc. the 3-D was always exciting because a cannon ball seemed to be like an inch from your face. Am I crazy for wanting movie theatre 3-D to be more exciting? I guess I was just expecting so much more from these 'amazing' 3-D pictures.