It was awful. Not enough story for 1.5hrs let alone the ridiculous 3hrs I spent watching it. HFR made the whole thing look like a diorama. And indoor shots in small spaces made it look like a cheap tv show (lighting? Color?)

48fps did make the fast 3d scenes at least watchable.

@AKED
+1000, haa, haa DOL

I had the opportunity for HFR, but got the 24fps version ticket. The film was mostly ok, but very strangely, in the panning shots in the beginning (daylight scene, grass and nature and people walking around) there was extreme stuttering. seems to me they shot those at 1/100th shutter or higher. really bad. almost impossible to see anything.

luckily there were not many of these shots.

I just saw the 48fps, and it was 4K. No Dolby, though. The cold, lifeless nature of it is no fault of the 48fps, the 3D or the 4K! Set building materials, lighting and makeup have a VERY long way to go before they are realistic at these frame rates and resolutions. That is why the film seemed so fake, not because of the 48fps 3D tech. The outdoor helicopter shots looked immaculate . . . because they were filming real landscapes. The closeups looked fake because they were. You're seeing makeup, not peoples' faces, and it is obvious . . . just like the styrofoam rocks. 3D 4K has this strange way of revealing contrived lighting, too. It is so easy to see where a light source is coming from.

Only because you mention it. Do you know how The lord of the ring should have ended? Have a

Sorry for the OT but I could not resist :-)

3D depth perception can vary quite a bit from person to person, that's why some people don't see the benefit in 3D.
If you want 2D HFR, you could always make your own glasses so both eyes see the same image.

The story itself was just average for me, but I liked LOTR far more as a book more than the Hobbit.
The sound was excellent, I have never heard such clarity and imaging in a mix. The 3D I found fantastic, when Thoren stepped in from back of the screen I was about to ask what I thought was another patron in the cinema to sit down, because he was in the way of the screen. And the multitude of layering in the goblin city was very nice. I'm in two minds about HFR, it definitely give it a more lifelike presentation, as they say looking out through a window. I've never seen so much detail in a film before, what with deeper depth of field that comes with being a 3D filming, to the 4K presentation and the doubling in temporal resolution. I felt like I was watching a stage performance. It seems to remove the dreamy character of film. I really didn't like it for the first half of the movie. But by the second half of the film I had either adjusted or it might be because there were so many fast action sequences, you can actually see what is happening. The Transformer movies would really benefit from being 48fps. HFR may not be the best for everything, but it has it's uses. I wonder what it would be like to mix 24fps and 48fps in the same film.

I remember a similar event when Yamaha launched the DX synths .... similarities :)

Saw it in 24p 2D. Will go back and see the 48p 3D soon.

I actually liked the slow startup in the Shire. Gandalf is as good as eleven years ago and Bilbo carries the main part nicely! Felt like being back in middle earth again.

Things started to get bad once the talking trolls showed up and the CGI-fest started. I prefer my monsters to be all roars and grunts ;)

Rivendell: Elrond works OK but Galadriel and Saruman felt very add-on and the story doesn't have the same weight to it as LOTR. It's a much simpler story spread over too much bread, so to speak.

Gollum is spectacular! Story-, acting- and tech-wise the Riddles in the dark-section is the strongest part of the movie. Scary as hell!

Goblin city on the other hand is very boring with no sense of danger at all. Just a CGI roller coaster with a very "meh" Goblin King. The show down with Gandalf is just ridiculous.

The main Orch villain is also not very convincing being too CGI. I prefer rubber suits with some character!

But I hope as Bilbo says in the end: "The worst is behind us".

@alcomposer how can I forget!? I'm a Derrick, and Derrick's dont run! Been so long since I've seen that. I think Feebles might be up for review, but in college I watched it so many times I actually got sick of it.

@Mimirsan Thanks

OK, I got the information for Germany now. I saw the HFR (48fps) 3D 2K version.

There will be NO HFR 4k 3D version in Germany.

In January, there will be in another Cinema the HFR 4k version but in 2D. That is what I wanted to know.

Saw 3D 24fps. Well there was more jokes than in LOTR series, but I enjoyed the movie very much. Top quality in every aspect, especially visually.

Just watch the 1977 animated The Hobbit.