Much as I admire PJ's talent as a director, he's gone way overboard with the techie fanboy thing. He's shutting a huge number of people out by making his movie in 3D, and now he's going head over heels for this new technology which is unproven, and is a huge risk to the success of this film. I really think that if he releases it in 48fps, with no other alternative, that it will bomb, plain and simple. Everyone will be all stoked to see it, only to hear from others that it looks like a cheap TV movie. Word will get around and all that anticipation will deflate. It's so sad.

I mean, not so much for me, because I haven't got nearly as much riding on this personally as I did with LOTR. I never much cared for The Hobbit, and had never actually read it all the way through until a few months ago - a few chapters here and there was all I had managed before then, because I found the "kid's book" style to be too irritating for me. But I really was looking forward to seeing Martin Freeman assay this character, as well as all the rest of it. This news, however, really leaves me cold, and I'm glad he didn't fuck with LOTR like this. I guess it was too much to hope for that the entire ouevre would come out of a piece.

*sigh*