Will and I are going to go see The Hobbit on Thursday and have decided on 3D. It's showing 3D with higher frame rate and I guess the slower frame rate.
I haven't been following the frame rate issue, how does it change things?
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'Bring On The Night'
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askye - Dec 16, 2012 4:04:19 pm PST #23175 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Juliebird - Dec 16, 2012 4:35:53 pm PST #23176 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
My lil bro got himself a LOTR ring and declared that it's a promise ring from Sauron. I love my dorky little brother and his elvish fighting knives.
quester - Dec 16, 2012 5:07:01 pm PST #23177 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Thanks le nubian!
I know zombies have been a Thing for awhile. I just meant they haven't been Romantic before.
Consuela - Dec 16, 2012 5:15:53 pm PST #23178 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Some people find the high frame rate gives them migraines and is too realistic so the set looks like a set.
le nubian - Dec 16, 2012 5:45:01 pm PST #23179 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it's uncanny valley at the shire!
Kalshane - Dec 17, 2012 4:56:41 am PST #23180 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
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I bet The Hobbit is the first film where the Director's Cut is a ton shorter. For DVD, you'll be able to get just The Hobbit, with all the Rise of the Dark parts cut out,
I will totally buy this if it happens.
Consuela - Dec 17, 2012 6:54:47 am PST #23181 of 30000
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I don't mind the other Necromancer parts being involved, but I do want a Phantom Edit with 60% less troll snot and goblin-battling, and I could live without either prologue: they made the narrative bumpy and confusing.
I don't think PJ has ever heard the term "incluing".
Volans - Dec 17, 2012 7:12:28 am PST #23182 of 30000
move out and draw fire
It looks like The Hobbit opens here on the 21st, but I can't tell if it's going to be dubbed or subtitled yet. Also, the theater is in a part of town that's an Orange Zone (meaning we have to clear travel with the security officer, get a driver and an armored vehicle, check in at set times, and absolutely can't be there after dark).
Of course I saw Trilogy Tuesday at the Uptown in DC, so it won't be much different.
Polter-Cow - Dec 17, 2012 8:11:48 am PST #23183 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't think PJ has ever heard the term "incluing".
...Neither have I?
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Consuela - Dec 17, 2012 8:40:16 am PST #23184 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My new favorite review of The Hobbit: [link]
So funny.
...Neither have I
Incluing is an SFF term invented by Pamela Dean or Jo Walton (or maybe Mike Ford); it refers to the kind of exposition that deposits information gently into the text, rather than in massive infodumps like prologues written as encyclopedia entries, or whatever.
It gives the reader the opportunity to assimilate the information a little more organically and naturally, and doesn't bring the narrative to a stumbling halt (like, for instance, "The Council of Elrond", which is basically the complete opposite of incluing).