For the people making the claim that this movie somehow looked bad or subpar in some way....please keep it moving. You are just making sh!t up because you know there was something reportedly different about it. Stop typing for the sake of typing.
The movie itself looked great and the 3D was fantastic, especially in a movie like this with such varying environments. The HFR sh!t however was trash. Not because it was bad necessarily, but because it was the same sh!t I got at the house. When I heard that they were shooting this movie in 48 fps, I was expecting something different I guess. What? I don't know, but I guess I expected to be wowed more. Instead, all I got was same smooth motion/120 hertz effect I get at home when I turn that feature on, on my TV. It just ended up feeling like a gimmick, and a bad one at that since it seems most people don't like the soap opera effect.
Then there was the movie itself. Good grief. This sh!t bored the hell out of me. I fell asleep then got up and went and took a piss. I NEVER do that when I go to the movies. NEVER. But this movie brought it out of me. It did start to pick up at the end when Gollum finally turned up. But those dwarves were just tedious and half the time I just felt like I didn't know what the hell was going on. It also felt like they were just mentioning a bunch of places as if I had knowledge of these locales. Like I should have done my homework before I came to see the movie and since I hadn't, it was just tough luck. I expect more from Peter Jackson. I'll check out the next couple of movies, I'm just not positive I'll go to the theater to see them.