The Hobbit was the wrong movie to do 48HFR in, it should have been a nature documentary, something like Planet Earth. The amount of detail is beautiful, but distracting to the story. The "magic" of movies is gone. IF this is the future of movies, then the production quality of making movies needs to catch up. Several things that went through my head while watching the film.
Those rocks are too plastic looking.
I can see the stitching in Gandalf's hat.
People moving in fast-forward? That's distracting.
Images from afar look beautiful, but up close, too digital.
Thus taking me OUT of the story and noticing HOW they make movies. I don't want to watch a film and see the "Behind the Scenes" right then and there. But that's just me.
My overall thoughts on the film are here.
Those rocks are too plastic looking.
I can see the stitching in Gandalf's hat.
People moving in fast-forward? That's distracting.
Images from afar look beautiful, but up close, too digital.
Thus taking me OUT of the story and noticing HOW they make movies. I don't want to watch a film and see the "Behind the Scenes" right then and there. But that's just me.
My overall thoughts on the film are here.
Whatever the case, my only point is that this technology is so raw right now. I think its too early to say that it flopped. A lot of people said that about blu-ray when it came out and it seems to me like its doing fine.
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