Has 3-D arrived ... at last?

This week's release of the ancient Viking tale "Beowulf" in 3-D could catapult three-dimensional movie going into the future.
The 3-D film sure has a checkered past. It seems like every decade a studio thinks 3-D is the next big thing, releases a couple of 3-D clunkers and then everybody forgets about it. I remember seeing ads for 1981's "Comin' At Ya" as a boy, but even then I was wise enough to avoid it.
But today's 3-D glasses are more comfortable than past models, and technological advances have made the experience far more enjoyable than ever before (witness the small scale delight that was "Meet the Robinsons"). Dark Horizons has the skinny on more 3-D films coming our way soon. And since theaters need a new weapon in the battle against flat screen televisions, 3-D will have to do until the real thing comes along (to paraphrase Tommy Lee Jones in "No Country for Old Men").