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The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators
kodiaktau writes "Film makers keep touting increased frame per second rate as improving viewing and cinema experience, however the number of theaters who actually have the equipment that can play the higher rate film is limited. It makes me wonder if this is in the real interest of creating a better experience and art, or if it is a ploy by the media manufacturers to sell more expensive equipment and drive ticket prices up. From the article: 'Warner Bros. showed 10 minutes of 3D footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at 48 frames per second at CinemaCon earlier this year, and Jackson said in a videotaped message there that he hoped his movie could be played in 48fps in “as many cinemas as possible” when it opens in December. But exhibitors must pay the cost of the additional equipment, and some have wondered how much of a ticket premium they would charge to offset that cost.'"
Piracy. Of course.
So now I can sleep through this movie at 48FPS like I slept through the rest of the Ring movies at 24FPS?
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I, for one, can't wait for the "laser show" version of LotR...
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A surcharge for this too? I'm surprised the theatres don't charge extra for that new fangled "air conditioner" technology at this point. Or maybe $1 per speaker in the theatre.
Oh well, just another reason to stay home and watch when it hits on demand for a tiny fraction of the cost.
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You can see non gimicky 3D right now: Prometheus.
The visuals in that movie were top notch. Unfortunately, in order to see them, you must sit through the movie. What a load of crap.
I knew it! Theater managers are one-eyed pirates with wooden legs!
A sequel is in the works that will involve Hobbits running around on stage and reading their lines live. They also plan to act out commercials and trailers live to give a more movie theater like experience.
Maybe they'll just give film theaters double the film (hopefully they have large platters!) and instruct them to hook the motors up to a 240V source instead of 120V.
I'm no electrical/mechanical engineer, but I'm pretty sure that you can just double the voltage on any given motor/gear system to double the speed with no negative repercussions.
Yes. Just buy two pairs of polarised glasses, remove the left glass from one pair and replace with the right glass from the other pair. With two glasses with the same polarisation, you'll only be able to see one 2D channel.
What a concept. In fact, a back-of-the-envelope calculation I just did would indicate you could probably even make two such pairs of 2D glasses... Profit!
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They're only angry because they can't see in 3D.
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It would allow us to constitutionally be able to yell fire in a theatre.
My then pregnant wife wanted to see District 13 about 3 days before our daughter showed up... We made it to about when the aliens started talking and that was the end of that...
Wives and movies just don't seem to work out well...
Really? I remember getting a real submarine. No crew of course, but the rest of the kids in the neighborhood filled in.
Don't you see copy protection when you see it?
No, but I do recognize a tautology when I recognize it.
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My Bloody Valentine 3D. Come on! You didn't see that? Within like the first 5 minutes of the film, a guy got a pickaxe to the back of the head and the tip of the pickaxe came toward the camera with his eyeball on the end of it! Now that's 3D. A lot of these movies people are mentioning, the 3D illusion is so subtle that it all but dissolves for me by the second act. I barely notice I'm watching a 3D movie anymore, except there's ghosting and I have to wear glasses.
(That said, I do agree it was used to good effect in Prometheus, even though I also agree the movie sucked. Maybe I was seeing the difference between a movie shot using 3D cameras and one that had all the 3D laid on in postprocessing in a computer.)
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