IMAX 3D 24FPS

And that's the last of this round of Hobbiting in theatres, I fancy, unless Erin and I do one of our very late dollar cinema coupon runs. XD; (This IMAX screening was also on points.) Verdict: motion blur was shockingly bad. I don't usually notice it in 3D movies being that I have trouble tracking fast movement with my eyes IRL anyway ahaha orz, but some of the shots here were shaky to the point of unwatchability. I suppose they blocked for 48fps, seeing no reason not to push the limit, and so the pan speed was too aggressive for 24fps 3D to handle. The same shots in 48fps were as smooth as butter. But on the bright side, in 24fps 3D Bag End and Rivendell no longer look like a Weta set visit undertaken on psychedelics, so you win some, you lose some.

I'm genuinely interested in the technology, what can I say.

I wrote up my dissatisfaction with the movie reviews here, which bafflingly got me followed by like ten journalist types on Tumblr. Verdict: everyone is a closet Tolkien nerd. dubdobdee then linked me his meta on Freakytrigger (plus discussion), which goes into much more detail. Though I now sort of want to do a poll: how many people think of The Hobbit as a "direct translation" of the Red Book of Westmarch (eg. that Bilbo wrote his story in a drily ironic/twee 3rd person omniscient)? ( Cut for length. )