So the new Hobbit movie is out (pre-screening) for reviewers and celebrities. Anyone seen it?

[muldoonthief]

Stories are starting to come out that the 48fps is making people sick:

New 'Hobbit' film makes some moviegoers sick

The Hobbit: what's the gross-factor as film-goers complain of sickness?

[astro]

@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?

[Loach]

@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

WTF? Only 2 in the state?

[Baker]

You’re lucky to have two. My state has only one!:mad:

[jayjay]

@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.

[thelurkinghorror]

8 hours in state, 3-4 hours out of state.

[Eyebrows_0f_Doom]

@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 (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!)

[DMark]

@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.

[Loach]

@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 (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.