So, I just went through the somewhat bewildering process of buying tickets for my family plus daughter's boyfriend to see THE HOBBIT on its first evening in theaters. This involved choosing between 2D and 3D (3D); then among regular 3D, Imax 3D, and high frame rate (HFR) 3D (everyone wanted HFR, and fortunately there's one screen in town showing it). Tickets are bought and printed out. Phew.
Have you got yours yet? Which version would you like to see, and why? Were we nuts to pick HFR? Post here!
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I'm going back and forth on the HFR. On the one hand, that is the way it is designed to be seen, and it should bring out elements that the standard frame rate won't have. On the other hand, there is the chance that it will seem jarring, as the people at the CinemaCon thought. Also, the closest HFR screenings are "over the hill" in San Jose, an hour away. So I'm not sure. And therefore, not voting yet!
Great idea for a thread!
Great idea for a thread!
I've bought my tickets, and as yet my cinema is only showing the film at standard frame rate (RealD 3D.) There is a faint chance my cinema will be one of the 25 out of 70-odd that the chain is apparently converting to HFR before the release date, but I'm not holding my breath...
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I suppose I'll just have to see the movie several times, once with hubby, once with groupies, once in IMAX, once in HFR....Ax wrote: Full list of theaters from TORN: http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/11 ... lby-atmos/
EDIT TO ADD: This isn't a complete list. There are also showings in Cupertino, for example. Would the Bat Area contingent consider meeting in the SJ area to be closer to V? I'm game for Thursday nite, anytime Friday or anytime Saturday. What say you?
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Saturday may be a possibility, although I didn't plan on going until Christmas Day.
ETA: barring a m00t, I'll probably go in Daly City for a 3D HFR viewing. Last time, PJ and crew did great things with technology, and I'd like to see the movie the way he intended it.
ETA: barring a m00t, I'll probably go in Daly City for a 3D HFR viewing. Last time, PJ and crew did great things with technology, and I'd like to see the movie the way he intended it.
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I'm still not sure I made the right choice (HFR 3D). But I think I may have made the most interesting one.
And if HFR is "too weird," but the film is good, well, then, darn it, I'll just have to go see it again in another format.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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Oooo fancy! Megascreen! 
I shall just have to be happy that the only theater within 100 miles showing it in HFR at all is in my town. I hadn't even checked, assuming we wouldn't be on the list. I'm glad I suddenly wondered and looked—it's only one screen, and only four shows all day, so it will surely sell out.
I shall just have to be happy that the only theater within 100 miles showing it in HFR at all is in my town. I hadn't even checked, assuming we wouldn't be on the list. I'm glad I suddenly wondered and looked—it's only one screen, and only four shows all day, so it will surely sell out.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I just looked at my calendar, and I theoretically have commitments on both Friday and Saturday night. I think I would like to see this the first weekend if possible, though, and *might* have some flexibility re: my Saturday night commitment - not sure yet. Daly City would be a pretty good location for me, if the group is interested in meeting there the first weekend. Since V is out, we don't have to worry about coming too far south (I think Daly City should be pretty accessible from Palo Alto if hal is in, and it sounds like Frelga is game for traveling that distance.) Teremia? narya?
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I'm going with 3D IMAX. Thus far, I haven't heard anyone complain that the 3D obstructs the film in any way - though most have also said that it doesn't necessarily do much to improve it either. In any event, I cannot bear the thought of "adjusting to 48fps" during the Erebor prologue, which I hope to be as engrossing as possible.
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What is HFR?
I'm going tomorrow in 3D, but don't know which one, never heard of all those different types of 3D.
Tomorrow will be Matthias and me only as I want to see it in English and the orc's English is not good enough for the vo. I will go with them for a 3D viewing in French next week.
I'm going tomorrow in 3D, but don't know which one, never heard of all those different types of 3D.
Tomorrow will be Matthias and me only as I want to see it in English and the orc's English is not good enough for the vo. I will go with them for a 3D viewing in French next week.
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I think I probably mentioned this in another thread, but my local Cineworld has been upgraded since I bought my tickets, and fortunately, the 7pm showing on Dec 18th is now going to be at 48fps.Elentári wrote:I've bought my tickets, and as yet my cinema is only showing the film at standard frame rate (RealD 3D.) There is a faint chance my cinema will be one of the 25 out of 70-odd that the chain is apparently converting to HFR before the release date, but I'm not holding my breath...
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Nin, "HFR" is "high frame rate"; the films were shot at 48 frames per second, instead of the standard 24 fps, and about 1/10 of theaters are showing it in that format, which has proven very controversial, with a majority of critics not liking it (although the reports of fans is more mixed, with people like Alatar and Telemachos at TORC liking it alot.Nin wrote:What is HFR?
I don't know what format I'll be seeing it for the first time, now that I am going in NY with my Mom. Pretty much, whatever she decides is what I'll do. I think she is probably more likely to be bothered by the HFR than I am because she goes to a lot more movies in the theater, and thus is probably more used to the standard 24 fps than I am.
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