Probably when the third part of the trilogy comes out next year!!! As it is The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was great, took the kids this afternoon. They're stringing it out a bit but still a good watch. That Evangeline Lily!!! I'd pull her ****ing Elve ears off!!
I'm taking my kids to watch it tonight , hope I don't fall asleep , still groggy from last nights festivities ....
Only saw the first one on DVD, wish I'd seen it at pictures. Really does it justice. Paid for the VIP seats, glad i did as its a bit of a bum number. 2 hrs 40.
Dont watch the high frame rate version. It is completely distracting and really makes the movie feel like ****.
Maybe I should expand on the frame rate. This will sound weird but the frame rate makes it seem to real. It will be clear that 80% of the movie was filmed on a set. You will know the second that any CGI thing hits the screen. All the actors will feel like they are the worst actors of any movie you have ever seen. It will be clear that all props are fake, all their outfits arent real etc. The reality of the high frame rate makes it completely obvious that you are watching a movie. It does not allow you to zone out and enjoy what you are watching it causes you to constantly be saying to yourself. Wow orlando bloom is terrible, that armor isnt made of metal, nice stage, is that sword made out of plastic, why is everything in this shot CGI etc etc.
I think he means at home, and he's right. If your telly is too good, it makes watching films painful, almost in the way 3d makes things 'pop out', anything CGI sticks out like a sore thumb.
Should just add that it's not just frame rate but mainly the colour ratio that makes the difference. Also a lot more noticeable on bigger screens, specially if you're sat too close.
No if you watched it in 2D than you watched it in the standard frame rate. If you saw it in 3D you most likely watched it in the standard frame rate. You have to see it in 3D HFR to watch it in the way it was actually filmed. It isnt the color ratio that is the issue. Standard films as in every film you have ever seen are filmed at 24 frames a second. The hobbit was filmed in 48 frames a second. Your eyes at 24 frames a second fill in the blanks so to speak as your brain can tell that there are frames. At 48 frames a second your mind does not fill the blanks as 48 frames a second is as fast as your brain picks up the pictures. This makes the movie unbelievably more realistic as half of what you are watching is not created by your brain. It could be that the theaters in England are not offering you an option of a 48 frame a second theater. They are rare here and I had to drive a couple of towns away to find one that offered it in the 48 frame a second. If you want to see what I am talking about find a 3D HFR theater. You will understand how I can complain about something looking to real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frame_rate http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/13/peter-jackson-better-hfr-desolation-of-smaug/
Check out Lillyhammer on Netflix. Season 2 has just been released stats Steven Van Zandt from the E street band ). Excellent stuff.
That was certainly the case with the first one, but Peter Jackson took all this on board and the image on the screen looks much better this time around I remember seeing the trolls in the first one and it looked really bad in the HFR Are your comments based on the first one or the second?
I loved Lord of the Rings, but the Hobbit, as lovely to watch as the first film was, its just all too long. The craft in making a movie should be in the story telling. 3 films for a book as short as the Hobbit just feels like Hollywood money making bollocks. I will end up watching the last 2, just all feels too drawn out.
Really enjoyed that, may take a trip to ABC to see the 2nd one in the series when I'm over next week. Cheers lads.
I remember watching "Public Enemies" in the cinema and thinking, particularly during one shoot-out scene, that it looked terrible. Was that HFR?
