The Hobbit film leaves fans with an unexpected sickness

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Well I'm fucked.

I get motion sickness from some video games (Half Life 2 and Mirror's Edge specifically), get incredibly car sick and suffer from sea sickness as well.
You get motion sickness in those games because of field of view. I'm the same way.

You could just adjust it.
 
Good news for film fans. Here's hoping this attempt to force a godawful trend crashes and burns even harder than non-Avatar 3D did.
 
High frame rates actually reduce the ghosting that causes headaches in 3D.

But you know, a couple people in one cinema tweeted about it so I guess we ought to write the technology off!
 
I think I'm going to go see this movie in theaters twice. Once at 24fps 2D, and once at 48fps 3D.

This is what I'll probably do. I'm seeing it on opening night in 2D (I think) and then I'm going to hit up another theater that's showing it in 48fps w/ Dolby ATMOS.
 
I love how the news media pounces on anything new or different to scare people. This article was probably heavily exaggerated and spiced up. Same shit was said about the 3DS and any new ride at Disneyland that uses a new technology.
 
Good news for film fans. Here's hoping this attempt to force a godawful trend crashes and burns even harder than non-Avatar 3D did.

Keep in mind Peter Jackson shot the Hobbit with a 270 degree shutter angle instead of the normal 180. The 270 will generate a differnt look. Avatar has a native 16:9 aspect ratio the Hobbit 2:35:1.

I think it is a mistake to draw conclusions about 48fps considering all the other stuff Jackson decided to do.
 
I have two choices:

Liemax in 3D

or

HFR 3D.

Not sure I want to gamble on the Y&R in middle earth or pay the premium to watch in Cinematic framerate.
 
Guys, HFR isn't costing anything extra. If it's somehow just become more expensive than a normal 3D screening, then that is your theatre acting like dickholes.
 
Guys, HFR isn't costing anything extra. If it's somehow just become more expensive than a normal 3D screening, then that is your theatre acting like dickholes.

I know the HFR showings in my area all cost more than the 3D ones. What does it matter if it's the theater's choice? Doesn't change the fact that it's costing more to see in 48fps.

edited to sound less dickish, but you caught it anyway. :lol
 
So? Regardless of where the extra charge is coming from and why, that doesn't change the fact that HFR tickets are more expensive.

Except they aren't more expensive. They're more expensive at your cinema. That is what I'm saying. My cinema is charging what they normally charge for a 3D film. WB has made it clear that cinemas shouldn't be charging more and if they are then you ought to take it up with them.
 
For a split second I thought this was going to be another BS story about them being clinically depressed that Middle Earth isn't real, like after Avatar premiered.

I'm very curious to see what the common reaction to HFR 3D is. It is on a technical level, better. That is an undeniable fact. But if some people physically can't handle it? Then the odds of it being the new standard are pretty damn low.
 
I hate most of the arguments against HFR. The worst one is it feels like a soap opera. How the fuck does higher frame rate make a movie feel like a soap opera? What the hell does that even mean?
 
I hate most of the arguments against HFR. The worst one is it feels like a soap opera. How the fuck does higher frame rate make a movie feel like a soap opera?
Because people are used to seeing movies in a low frame rate that's been the standard for the past 80 years for no reason (except the technical limitation of the 1920s).
 
Yeah the soap opera comparison is the worst.

I can understand people saying it feels like watching a stage play - since ultimately that is what it more closely approximates with character's movements resembling real life more than 24fps.

What I'm most interested in seeing is the slow-mo scenes in 48fps.
 
Except they aren't more expensive. They're more expensive at your cinema. That is what I'm saying. My cinema is charging what they normally charge for a 3D film. WB has made it clear that cinemas shouldn't be charging more and if they are then you ought to take it up with them.

That's great that WB isn't charging more for HFR. Doesn't change the fact that some theaters are. That's my point: at the end of the day, regardless of where the decision is coming from, there are going to be a lot of people who will be charged more for wanting to see the movie in 48fps.
 
Real life is running too fast for me guise. Everything being in Ultra HD is making things a little too real as well. WHAT I DO?

False equivalence.


The way your eyes work while watching a 3D movie isn't the same thing they do when you are walking around in your every day life.
 
Yeah the soap opera comparison is the worst.

I can understand people saying it feels like watching a stage play - since ultimately that is what it more closely approximates with character's movements resembling real life more than 24fps.

What I'm most interested in seeing is the slow-mo scenes in 48fps.

People defending it keep saying that but I don't know why it is a bad comparison. I see it and think "This looks like a TV soap opera picture" it is the first thing that comes to mind.
 
False equivalence.


The way your eyes work while watching a 3D movie isn't the same thing they do when you are walking around in your every day life.

I'm poking fun at the 'EYES ARE RECEIVING TOO MUCH INFORMATION' bullshit going on in the article.

People defending it keep saying that but I don't know why it is a bad comparison. I see it and think "This looks like a TV soap opera picture" it is the first thing that comes to mind.

See what? You've seen The Hobbit?
 
I'm poking fun at the 'EYES ARE RECEIVING TOO MUCH INFORMATION' bullshit going on in the article.



See what? You've seen The Hobbit?

I've seen the TV's that have the "soap opera" effect. Hell, my dad has one that I watched some movies on when I went home for the holidays.
 
Wow PJ has managed to get all the way to release date without giving us a 48fps trailer to judge it before hand..
 
Wait, people have to have seen 48 FPS before they can complain about it? What about the defenders who claim it looks "nothing like" soap operas? What are they basing their opinion on?
 
But he hasn't seen The Hobbit, how would he know?
Well no ones seen the Hobbit running at 24fps either are you saying that'll be a surprise too?
The Hobbit's HFR and the " TV soap opera mode" can't be compared in any way.
Except when people who have seen the movie say it looks like a soap opera.
Not saying it'll look bad, but thats what it will look like. Remember that James cameron only found out about HFR after doing the Ghosts of the Abyss documentary. He wants to make movies look like documentaries.
 
Wait, people have to have seen 48 FPS before they can complain about it? What about the defenders who claim it looks "nothing like" soap operas? What are they basing their opinion on?
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Not saying it'll look bad, but thats what it will look like. Remember that James cameron only found out about HFR after doing the Ghosts of the Abyss documentary. He wants to make movies look like documentaries.
I'm not saying HFR can't look like a soap opera, I'm just saying that on a technical level the soap opera mode and HFR in The Hobbit are two completely different things and shouldn't be compared.
 
According to twitter, nobody died from 48fps at the guild screening at the academy today.

Some comments that the higher frame rate was "weird" and "interesting", no mention of sickness. One guy said the 3D was some of the best he has seen.
 
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