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 Post subject: The Hobbit in HFR
PostPosted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:42 am 
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Anyone else get a chance to see it yet? As a movie it was a good romp through middle-earth, as far as the 48fps "gimmick" it worked out OK. I'd like to see it in non-3d HFR, but i'll have to settle with vanilla non-hfr, non-imax, non-3d.

Personally I think it made everything look "too real" and thus everything looked fake. As well it looked like the film was in fast forward mode (fire flickered too quickly, banners waved in the wind too quickly, people ran too fast) but people talked in regular motion.

Can't wait for the other 2 :P

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 Post subject: Re: The Hobbit in HFR
PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:43 pm 
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After seeing many LCD/LED displays with 240MHz "Smooth Motion" effects cranked up I knew what this HFR stuff was going to look like and I plan on avoiding it when I go to see the movie eventually. I kind of feel like a Luddite for thinking that but at the same time everything looks like it was shot on a cheap camcorder and I don't like it too much. Maybe it will get better over time though with new cinematography effects???


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 Post subject: Re: The Hobbit in HFR
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:24 pm 
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Saw it yesterday in IMAX 3D. I'm not sure if it's the 3D, which essentially cuts the perceived frame rate in half, or the fact that they shot it well but it didn't seem nearly as bad as I was expecting compared to the "smooth-motion" type effect I normally see on 240MHz displays.


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 Post subject: Re: The Hobbit in HFR
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:13 pm 
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I don't know where you saw it but AFAIK, there is no HFR IMAX shows in Nova Scotia. I saw it in 2D in a podunk town theatre last week and besides the film being all beat up, I didn't notice any of the sped up effects that I found distracting during the HFR showing.

I'll give the screener a whirl if I have 3 hours to burn :P

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 Post subject: Re: The Hobbit in HFR
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:43 pm 
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No need to waste time on a screener, somebody leaked a DVD quality rip... No doubt a charter MPAA member...

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 Post subject: Re: The Hobbit in HFR
PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:18 am 
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Still a "screener" though, mate. Quite a bit of "security features" blurred out. Yeah it's good quality.

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 Post subject: Re: The Hobbit in HFR
PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:08 am 
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CMDR Steve-O wrote:
I don't know where you saw it but AFAIK, there is no HFR IMAX shows in Nova Scotia.


That could be. I just assumed the IMAX specification probably already has double frame-rate, and since there was no mention of it in the title I assumed since it was IMAX it would have everything the smaller screens would have and more. Might also explain why I thought it looked good. ;)


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