[Yossarian]

I tried "high frame rate" the last time around, and I feel it very much detracted from the movie going experience.

When I go to the movies, I want to be caught up in a story. High Frame Rate makes me caught up in a set, in makeup, in feeling like I'm pushed around in a wheelbarrow through something fake. It feels like looking at a full-motion diorama.

[Boogieman]

I haven’t seen the second one yet, but the first was mostly a snoozer. He should probably have cut this down to two films, max. Not everything has to be a trilogy, it’s getting ridiculous.

[Fledermaus]

I can’t take three movies for one book.

[melsec]

There are some great bits in the first one - some bits did seem superfluous like the mountain battle or whatever it was called and it pretty well jumped the with shark with some of the action stuff in the Goblin Kings cave. It is not LOTR and does not try to be - it is far more lighthearted. The Desolation of Smaulg doesn’t come out here until the day after Christmas - looking forward to it!

[minnesota_bound]

“The Desolation of Smaug”
What is a Smaug?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

So what's next - Peter Jackson's The Silmarillion?