The Hobbit IMAX, HFR, 3-D
I went to see The Hobbit tonight with my daughter. We saw it on the giant screen with the high frame rate, in 3-D and with the 5K extra resolution.
The movie part was good. The story deviated a little from the book but it was acceptable and it was plausable within Tolkien's world. The story bits they added could have happened while the narrator (Bilbo) was elsewhere telling his part of the story. So the book is litterally Bilbo's experience and the movie fills in things that happened while Bilbo was doing his thing. In short, it worked. The whole story went well together. One thing they learned from the last trilogy was how to end a segment. I remember watching the Fellowship of the Ring in the theater and it ended after Gandalf died and everyone was crying and running out of the mountain. I didn't know if I wanted to cheer or boo. The first segment of The Hobbit ended with enough closure.
The incredible part of the experience was the technology. I go to about 3 movies a year and some years far less. I rarely pay for premium movie things because movies are not that important to me. This was well worth every penny of the upgrades. I have never seen 3-D this realistic and consistent. In the past 3-D programming was so labor intensive they only did it for select scenes. The whole 2+ hours of this wsa in great 3-D. Additionally, the 5k screen resolution (roughly 5 times more pixels than regular movies) made the whole thing more realistic than any film I have ever seen. It was like looking out a window at the scenery rather than watching it on a screen.
If you like movies or The Lord of the Rings trilogy I highly suggest paying the extra to take in all the quality that is unique to this experience.
The movie part was good. The story deviated a little from the book but it was acceptable and it was plausable within Tolkien's world. The story bits they added could have happened while the narrator (Bilbo) was elsewhere telling his part of the story. So the book is litterally Bilbo's experience and the movie fills in things that happened while Bilbo was doing his thing. In short, it worked. The whole story went well together. One thing they learned from the last trilogy was how to end a segment. I remember watching the Fellowship of the Ring in the theater and it ended after Gandalf died and everyone was crying and running out of the mountain. I didn't know if I wanted to cheer or boo. The first segment of The Hobbit ended with enough closure.
The incredible part of the experience was the technology. I go to about 3 movies a year and some years far less. I rarely pay for premium movie things because movies are not that important to me. This was well worth every penny of the upgrades. I have never seen 3-D this realistic and consistent. In the past 3-D programming was so labor intensive they only did it for select scenes. The whole 2+ hours of this wsa in great 3-D. Additionally, the 5k screen resolution (roughly 5 times more pixels than regular movies) made the whole thing more realistic than any film I have ever seen. It was like looking out a window at the scenery rather than watching it on a screen.
If you like movies or The Lord of the Rings trilogy I highly suggest paying the extra to take in all the quality that is unique to this experience.