The Hobbit FUCKING SUCKED DICK! spoilers ahoy

[Instrumentalist]

Oh my god.. just watched the hobbit and wish I could get 3 hours of my life back.

-basically the dwarves were not developed as characters at all. compared to LOTR where u got to know the characters, everyone in this move felt replaceable and not important.
-slapstick humor made it feel weird. literally in one scene the dwarves fall through a door and a "bowling pins knocked over" sound effect is played.
-too fucking long, omfg. and 2 more movies of this?
-didnt even show the dragon.
-there was a character with a bird living in his hair, with bird shit running down the side of his face.. wtf? oh, and he rode around on a wooden sleigh pulled by rabbits and is friends with hedgehogs.
-the only funny part of the movie are the multiple drug references of which 2 are very overt: gandalf asks the brown wizard to smoke his pipe which he says will calm him down, and the scene where saruman says he does not trust the brown wizard because of his excessive consumption of mushrooms. fucking lol.
-there are like 20 times very conveniently the company gets saved by some bullshit. brb eagles coming out of nowhere to save them, falling into crevaces and holes 100 feet and still being fine with no one injured, finding a bunch of really badass weapons sitting in a cave, etc. really nothing happens logically in this movie so it's impossible to take it seriously.
-omfg this movie sucked so much.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59guruVL4o]Dalek Relaxation Tape - YouTube[/ame]

 

[blureach]

I loved LoTR movies and I thought the hobbit movie was "meh". I loved the book.

I didn't expect it to follow the book so I don't mind the changes. My biggest complaint is how they dragged everything along and over-emotionalized the dialogue. Thorin acted like a whiney bitch

I also agree about the poor character development. I would have rather trimmed fight scenes and added more character dialogue.

 

[Sevenhelmets]

I still can't help but to think you saw the non-HFR. The fake aspects I spoke of are anything but subtle. Have you ever seen the movie beetle juice, like the old one from the 90s? Do you remember the miniature town where beetle juice lived, made of model trees and such? Well that is exactly what the landscapes looked like in the HFR version of The Hobbit. You would literally have to be vision-impaired not to notice how fake the landscapes looked. I mean, it was awful.

edit* I wanted to clarify, the reason I think it's possible you saw the 24 FPS, because many of the theaters on the HFR list showed the movie in both 24 and 48 Hz formats and some weren't very transparent on which tickets you were actually buying

Now, dial that back to 24 FPS and it looks exactly as you described, very sharp picture but not blatantly fake. Because the slight motion blur that comes with the 24 frame rate is just enough to hide any imperfections. In fact, this is precisely why movies have been delivered at 24 frames for decades, it makes little imperfections unnoticeable. While in 48 frames, there is zero room for error.

I'm not saying 48 fps is impossible, but these producers really have to step their game up to make it look real. This means using real landscapes, real props, etc. Instead of substituting CGI and miniatures. In other words they will have to completely re-think the way they make movies, especially fantasy type movies. This also likely means tripling or quadrupling their production budgets.

You could be right - they might have quietly switched it to 24fps 3D because too many people were complaining...lol. The ticket sales did say "High Frame Rate", but to be fair they didn't SPECIFY how high....lol.

Bear in mind though a lot of the landscapes were real, or at least sets, and not CG. The Cave Troll realm was definitely CG (although close ups would've been a set), as was the cliff scene when they were chased, but the big vista shots were actual landscape shots in New Zealand.

I have seen Beetlejuice a few times - don't recall exactly the scene you're referring to - might have to dig it up and check it out.