How will you be seeing 'The Hobbit'? In 3D? IMAX? 48fps? Digital? 4K? (Page 1 of 7)

Wait a sec, it wasn't actually shot on Imax though, right? It's just being upscaled to the imax screen?

There'll probably be completists out there that have to see it in every combination possible.

It'll be interesting to see if HFR takes off, or just feels like cheap video.

HFR here too.

If I make a trip out to WEM I'll probably see it in IMAX, otherwise 2D.

No 3D, no 48 fps for me even if I could (and I probably couldn't around here; sometimes you even have to struggle to find an undubbed version viewing). Teague just said it, there's the risk of ruining your experience with the movie, and I won't have that.

But I'd definitely be up to experiencing the 48 fps afterwards. 3D? Never cared for it, and I don't think it's going to change with higher fps.

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I thought, why not, so snagged a ticket to the 3d 48, at my local theatre, which is a nice big one. Whether I get the opportunity to use the ticket due to work is another issue, but we'll see.

I'm going to the premiere, seeing it in 3D HFR Digital Imax, the way it was meant to be seen (for better or for worse), but not the way it was meant to be heard! There's no theater within 4 hours of my house that's showing the film with all the bells and whistles, including Dolby Atmos sound. Shame, I wish I could have gotten the chance to hear it that way. Oh well, Atmos will probably be way more widespread next year, and especially the year after that.

I'm sure I'll see it in 2D 24p at some point as well.

Like most, I'll definitely be doing the 2D 24fps for the first viewing. Even though 48fps is just going to look like that motion smoothing crap you get on new TV's these days, I'm still curious to check it out anyway.

It's exactly for that reason that I think HFR is going to become the next "new technology craze". People that love LOTR and are curious about the new tech are going to buy a ticket, and the film will make a ton of money. But from a Hollywood exec's point of view, I can see them going "well it made a lot of money because of HFR, let's make every movie like that from now-on!"

It happened with Avatar and 3D, and I can definitely see it happening again!

Tolkien fans not arsed whether The Hobbit is loyal to book...

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts … 2112951061

2D, 24p. I don't have the option to view it in HFR here, but 3D is an option, which I'll be opting out of. I don't like 3D unless it's animated films.

Granted, the only live action films I've watched in 3D are Pirates 4 and HP7-2, which weren't shot in 3D, but still. I enjoyed it in How to train your dragon and Tintin, though the latter kind of lost the whole "WHOA IT'S 3D!" effect rather quickly. It was just there and not in-your-face at all.

Don't have an HFR theater around... not horribly disappointed. If I can manage it I'll be doing 2D 24p. (But that relys on our one movie theater in town not being it's regular d-bag self and only showing 3D versions. So not hopeful on that front)

I don't have as much against 3D as most people., but still come on, it's the Hobbit, I don't want no distractions.

If I can manage it, the cities about 2 hours away have HFR, so I might go check it out there after I've already seen it (a few times), but only so I can make an informed opinion. (But as of this posting, I'm pretty sure it's gonna look horrible)

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