The Hobbit (Dec 14, 2012/Dec 13, 2013/Dec 16, 2014)

**Rhinox** · 2012-12-01 08:38

It is a tough read.

Don't think anyone said they sucked.

**Qalbert** · 2012-12-01 08:48

Hobbit is what got me into pleasure reading. when I was little my mom would read it to me, and I was annoyed that it took so long for her to read out loud so I swiped the book and started reading it myself.

**Ohemgee** · 2012-12-01 09:58

I kind of feel like a horrible human being for not pre-ordering tickets already. Its just hard to convince people not to see it on Friday and Saturday nights and go on a Sunday afternoon where you don't have to deal with dumb people and their kids.

I think my sister and cousins will go the Sunday to watch it, but my sister is the only tolkien fan besides me.

**Omniyoji** · 2012-12-01 18:07

It's so old, of course a lot of people want to see this movie. Your father's father maybe read it. The first time I read this in middle school. Need to check it out again before movie comes out.

**Cichy** · 2012-12-01 18:09

Shut up and go read your Twilight books

**Omniyoji** · 2012-12-01 18:16

Sorry, I don't read twilight books.

**Cichy** · 2012-12-01 18:16

talking to Zealot

**Kaisha** · 2012-12-01 18:45

So is there anywhere playing this in 48fps 2d? I'm only seeing "HFR 3D" for Cineplex owned theatres in my area.

Also, never read the Hobbit here, but I was under the impression it was one book, not a trilogy?

**Tyrath** · 2012-12-01 19:45

It is one book. They are using other Tolkien books to flesh it out into a larger trilogy.

**Rulke** · 2012-12-01 20:13

@kaisha: 48fps is 3d only

**6souls** · 2012-12-02 16:21

Better quality of TV Spot 9 featuring Smaug

**Rulke** · 2012-12-02 18:47

Originally Posted by 6souls

Better quality of TV Spot 9 featuring Smaug

3 seconds of a blurry dragon outline and I still went crazy.

**Eurell** · 2012-12-02 18:57

Originally Posted by Rulke

3 seconds of a blurry dragon outline and I still went crazy.

**Rhinox** · 2012-12-02 20:40

lol

**Tyrath** · 2012-12-04 15:24

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ueasiness.html

'Hobbit film wizardry left us feeling sick’: Cinema-goers complain camera speeds and 3D effects caused headaches and queasiness

The Sunday Times reported one 'avid Middle Earth fan', who had flown to New Zealand from Australia for the premiere, said: 'My eyes cannot take everything in, it's dizzying, now I have a migraine.'

Another fan tweeted: 'It works for the big snowy mountains, but in close-ups the pictures strobes. I left loving the movie but feeling sick.'

The Sunday Times said one fan described having motion sickness similar to being on a rollercoaster.

They said: 'You have to hold your stomach down and let your eyes pop at first to adjust. This is not for wimps.'

However, others praised the way the film - starring Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins - had been shot.

Hollywood director Bryan Singer wrote on Twitter after the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Wednesday: 'Having some serious frame rate envy. Amazing and involving. Loved it!'

The 3D company that worked with Jackson on the shoot said the new technology should actually stop people feeling ill.

Matt Cowan, chief scientist at RealD, told stuff.co.nz: 'What you will experience is smoother motion.

'The effect you get for things like explosions is much more real.

'It is a great experiment and kudos to Peter Jackson for doing it.'

The movie - the first in a trilogy - is shot at a camera speed of 48 frames per second - double that normally used.

Critics did not react warmly to an unfinished version of the film describing it as looking like a 'made for television BBC movie - so uncompromisingly real, slightly sped up, that it looked fake. It was jarring.'

The movie came under fire earlier this year after critics who had seen ten minutes of the unfinished film compared it to a made-for-television film.

Ian McKellen, who reprises his role as Gandalf in the film, defended it as 'more exciting' and said the 3D brings fans into Middle Earth.

Thousands of people crowded into central Wellington, New Zealand, for the chance to see some of the films stars including Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett and Andy Serkis, who plays Gollum.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is due to be released in the UK on December 14.

The second film The Desolation of Smaug will be be released in 2013 with There and Back Again released the following year.

Seeing it in 3d on a huge imax screen anyway

**Cail** · 2012-12-04 16:41

cry moar people!

**Guyverarmor** · 2012-12-04 17:03

Damn pussies

**tyven** · 2012-12-04 18:53

from movie line

“It felt like watching daytime soaps in HD, terrible BBC broadcasts, or Faerie Tale Theater circa 1985, only in amazingly sharp clarity and with hobbits.
Part of the problem is there’s too much detail in every frame that the magical filter of cinema that makes most 24 fps film so pleasing to the eye is gone; every prop on a set too clear, and even a performance by someone like the very fine Ian McKellen looks embarrassingly, unnaturally theatrical.”

I was worried about this, hopefully its not actually that bothersome. im not super fanboy which means if its hella boring and looks like fucking BBC i will be disappoint.

**Fievel** · 2012-12-04 19:02

Starting to get a little worried too, would be such a huge let down if this movie sucks.

**Omniyoji** · 2012-12-04 19:15

If you don't like HDTVs running in 240Hz mode you won't like 48fps.

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