# So the new Hobbit movie is out (pre-screening) for reviewers and celebrities. Anyone seen it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933 "2012-12-04T04:18:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/41 "2012-12-05T14:39:33Z")
Stories are starting to come out that the 48fps is making people sick: > **[New 'Hobbit' film makes some moviegoers sick](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2012/12/03/new-hobbit-film-makes-some-moviegoers-sick/1742247/)** > > The way it was shot is leaving some queasy. > **[The Hobbit: what's the gross-factor as film-goers complain of sickness?](https://www.theguardian.com/film/shortcuts/2012/dec/03/the-hobbit-film-complain-sickness)** > > Early reports suggest that Peter Jackson's take on the Tolkien tale triggers nausea. So which other films have faced similar criticism – and how did they fare at the box office? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/42 "2012-12-07T02:20:10Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > This accords pretty much perfectly with what I have predicted about the films in the past, except that it seems to characterize the LOTR films positively, whereas I (though I originally liked them) think that the LOTR films are really, really bad. The Hobbit films are going to be worse. So let’s say you’re the director. How would _you_ have approached presenting LOTR on film? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/43 "2012-12-07T02:42:55Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Chill. Have some lembas. Try some of the cordial of Imladris. 😉 > > It’s only a movie. It won’t change one line that the perfessor wrote. > > I think it’ll be cool to see what PJ’s vision of The Hobbit and the appendices look like. It was a blast watching his LOTR films. I didn’t agree with everything he did, and found some of his choices silly, and indicative that he just didn’t understand JRRT as well as _ **I** _ did, but it was still fun. > > The Hobbit flicks will be the same for me. Good or bad, I’ll always have the books. Totally agree. I didn’t like all his choices but on its own merits LOTR is one of my favorite movie(s). It adds or takes away nothing from the books. > [@jayjay](#): > > [List of IMAX theaters that will show The Hobbit in High Frame Rate 3D](http://www.imax.com/community/blog/peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-will-be-shown-in-high-frame-rate-3d-in-select-imax-theatres/) WTF? Only 2 in the state? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/44 "2012-12-07T03:57:37Z")
You’re lucky to have two. My state has only one!:mad: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/45 "2012-12-07T03:59:37Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You’re lucky to have two. My state has only one!:mad: As does mine. Admittedly, mine’s probably closer than many other people’s are to them, but it’s still a good hour, hour and a half away. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/46 "2012-12-07T05:22:19Z")
8 hours in state, 3-4 hours out of state. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/47 "2012-12-07T05:29:33Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > WTF? Only 2 in the state? Surprisingly, New York only has one! And unfortunately it’s not the \*real \*IMAX at Lincoln Center, but one of the “fake” IMAX screens. :mad: [IMAX vs IMAX Lite](http://consumerist.com/2009/05/12/does-your-local-cinema-have-imax-or-just-imax-lite/) (Link has an image showing the difference in size between the Lincoln Center screen and the smaller IMAX screens. It’s pretty amazing, the Lincoln Center screen is about **4.5** times bigger!) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/48 "2012-12-07T17:01:26Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Surprisingly, New York only has one! And unfortunately it’s not the \*real \*IMAX at Lincoln Center, but one of the “fake” IMAX screens. :mad: Same in Las Vegas - showing at the Red Rock Casino movie theater at the “fake” IMAX. We went to see a film in IMAX there once - what a rip off - screen is not really any larger than the largest screen of any multiplex and it was a waste of money to pay extra. If you have ever been to a “real” IMAX, you will never settle for these rip offs again. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933/49 "2012-12-07T17:18:58Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Surprisingly, New York only has one! And unfortunately it’s not the \*real \*IMAX at Lincoln Center, but one of the “fake” IMAX screens. :mad: > > [IMAX vs IMAX Lite](http://consumerist.com/2009/05/12/does-your-local-cinema-have-imax-or-just-imax-lite/) (Link has an image showing the difference in size between the Lincoln Center screen and the smaller IMAX screens. It’s pretty amazing, the Lincoln Center screen is about **4.5** times bigger!) I’m pretty sure both are IMAX lite in NJ. But at least it’s not that far. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-hobbit-movie-is-out-pre-screening-for-reviewers-and-celebrities-anyone-seen-it/642933.md?page=2)