How to watch The Hobbit

Infidelus said:
This is how I'll be watching it. Haven't needed 3D for the last 42 years to enjoy a film, and I don't see that changing for me personally.
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Your choice of course, but it's an odd thing to say imho.
Would you still be happpy watching SD quality video with mono audio?
Roll with the times dude....:D

I know some people can't handle 3d due to headaches etc, but i think it's still a step toward a better movie experience when done right.
 
Katoom said:
A review of the 48fps screening. http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-debuts-in-48fps/


Not sure what to do.:confused:

Go local for 2d, local for normal 3d or wait and get a train to go see it in 3d HFR?
Seems like a waste to see it in normal 3d.
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Hmm....having read that link, it's exactly how i felt when i bought my first 1080p tv 3 months ago and watched a blu-ray. It looked too real and shiney and took me a while to get used to it, looking just like the quote in that link suggested.
It felt like watching daytime soaps in HD, terrible BBC broadcasts, or Faerie Tale Theater circa 1985
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I've had LOTR trilogy on BD for about a year, but refused to watch it on anything less than a 1080p tv. When i did you could tell the CGI from the indoor and outdoor sets and it was disturbing tbh. I lost some of the belief in the 'reality' of middle earth if you get my drift. Watching it on DVD all the production layers looked seemless on the screen.

So......i'm not too sure now, maybe go see it in 24fps 3d.
 
What a odd thing to say, Roll with the times dude, ;)

Telling people to roll with the times and you have only just got yourself a 1080 tv the other month. lol

3d adds nothing to the experience at all IMO and many many others. 2d all the way for me.
 
ZG002 said:
What a odd thing to say, Roll with the times dude, ;)

Telling people to roll with the times and you have only just got yourself a 1080 tv the other month. lol

3d adds nothing to the experience at all IMO and many many others. 2d all the way for me.
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Yep....rolling......never said how fast though did i!? ;)
 
Going to see it on Sunday at the new Nottingham IMAX in HFR3D.

I'm not a fan of 3D really, but I will pay the extra for the IMAX experience and just to see what the new Tech is like. I am hoping the 48fps will eliminate a lot of the blurring and judder you get with 24fps 3D.

I'll then go and see it again with other friends in a normal 2D cinema anyway! (unless it's rubbish :p)
 
Hmmm... I have Thurs and Fri off, could go and watch it in Wimbledon for a 3D IMAX, but the cheapest is £13.10 for an 11am showing!

EDIT - Sod it, booked for an 11am showing on Friday :D
 
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Bleh, booked early when there was just a 3D version and an Xtreme 3D version at vue Plymouth. Now they've added the 3DHFR version and it's £4 cheaper per ticket!

Find it a bit strange that the largest screen at Plymouth isn't a HFR screening though :confused:
 
MORE SPEED said:
Bleh, booked early when there was just a 3D version and an Xtreme 3D version at vue Plymouth. Now they've added the 3DHFR version and it's £4 cheaper per ticket!

Find it a bit strange that the largest screen at Plymouth isn't a HFR screening though :confused:
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Yeah, Wimbledon are only doing the HFR screening midday on Thursday, and not on the IMAX screen. Given I don't know if I would like HFR (and I will probably be hungover on Thursday), I opted for just IMAX on Friday.
 
Yep, Same at Odeon metro centre, IMAX screen isn't HFR but it's being show in HFR on a normal screen.
 
I'm sorry to hear some people's IMAX screens are not playing HFR.

I'm not sure why the hell some Odeon IMAX screens would play the Hobbit in 3D IMAX but not HFR and give the HFR to a non-IMAX screen... You would've thought the IMAX equipment, namely projectors, would have been capable of doing 48fps... Perhaps there's still a chance it will play at 48fps and it just hasn't been announced yet...
 
None of the above: I plan to wait until all three films are out and watch them at home. If this had been - as it should be - a single long film then I'd probably watch the 3D version. But splitting it three ways is just silly, and I don't fancy a year-long wait between each.
 
Banzai_Joe said:
Your choice of course, but it's an odd thing to say imho.
Would you still be happpy watching SD quality video with mono audio?
Roll with the times dude....:D

I know some people can't handle 3d due to headaches etc, but i think it's still a step toward a better movie experience when done right.
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3D doesn't interest me in the slightest. It's just another gimmick designed to help part you from more of your money. That, and like various others, I've spent years wearing glasses. I now mostly wear contacts, and the last thing I want to do is have to put yet another pair of specs on just to watch a film. No thanks. 2D for me.
 
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