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Bret Easton Ellis Is The Patrick Bateman Of Film Criticism

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

If American Psycho ‘s Patrick Bateman were a film critic, he’d be Bret Easton Ellis. When he’s not promoting his film The Canyons    — directed by Paul Schrader and starring Lindsay Lohan — on Twitter, Ellis has been blowing shotgun-sized holes in some of the awards season’s biggest films.  The Less Than Zero author contends that  Zero Dark Thirty  director Kathryn Bigelow is “really overrated,” and Les Misérables   makes him miserable. (According to him, it’s an “incomprehensible mess.” )    Life of Pi   fares better, though Ellis would like to see that film’s young star Suraj Sharma get into porn.  Oh yeah, and he also claims that the Academy “hates” The Dark Knight Rises . Below, a sampling of Ellis’ critical stylings, not necessarily in chronological order: Zero Dark Thirty: Kathryn Bigelow would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she's a very hot woman she's really overrated.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Kathryn Bigelow: Strange Days, K-19 The Widowmaker, Blue Steel, The Hurt Locker. Are we talking about visionary filmmaking or just OK junk?— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Silver Linings Playbook: “Zero Dark Thirty” might win critics awards but “Silver Linings Playbook” will win the Best Picture Oscar. This is how it always happens…— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Les Misérables: The film version of “Les Miserables” is so bad that it made me rethink why I ever loved the stage version. 2 hours and 40 minutes of tacky.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 The one actor surviving the incomprehensible mess “Les Miserables” is Eddie Redmayne, who should get an award for avoiding humiliation…— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 Tom Hooper blows just about every song in “Les Miserables” including “On My Own” which I didn't think possible no matter who directed it…— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 Oh yeah and I forgot: “Les Miserables” opens on Christmas Day and (spoiler alert!) just about everyone in it dies. Merry fucking Christmas.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 Life of Pi: Life of Pi is the movie I've thought about the most in 2012. As a writer I can't reconcile with its disturbing reveal: illusion vs. reality?— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 Suraj Sharma gives an amazing and incredibly moving performance in “Life of Pi” and seriously needs to do some porn. Misspelling: my fault.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 Killing Them Softly Based on the terrific source material “Killing Them Softly” doesn't work at all, but the actor Scoot McNairy is now officially on the radar.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 “Killing Them Softly” starring Brad Pitt is one of only eight films in Cinemascore's history to receive an “F” grade but…”Troy” didn't?!?— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 How the Academy will vote: The Academy is going to go for Silver Linings Playbook and not Lincoln.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 03, 2012 The Academy hates The Dark Knight Rises because I sat in that theater that night and listened to the banter in the lobby afterwards.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 03, 2012 There's not a chance in hell that Ang Lee will win best director. That will be a fight between Ben Affleck and David O. Russell. Haneke? No.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 03, 2012 I’m not sure if Ellis’ most recent tweet is a reaction to reaction to his withering perspective, but, as you might expect, he’s unrepentant: Anyone Unfollowing me should have known better and never Followed me in the first place. Wise up: pussies and snowflakes. Get the F over it.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Watch your back, Sandy Kenyon. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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No One’s Heaving At ‘The Hobbit’ According To Warner Bros.

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The Hobbit   doesn’t make you heave, according to Warner Bros.   The studio behind the first film in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel trilogy is batting down reports that the the high-frame rate of the picture caused nausea and dizziness for some fans who saw early screenings of the picture in New Zealand. Here’s the statement that the studio released on the matter: “We have been screening the full-length HFR 3D presentation of THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY  extensively and feedback has been extremely positive, with none of thousands who have seen the film projected in this format expressing any of the issues described by two anonymous sources in media reports. We share the filmmakers’ belief that by offering filmgoers the additional choice of HFR 3D, alongside traditional viewing formats, they have an opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking advancement in the moviegoing experience and we look forward to having audiences everywhere share in this new way of storytelling.” Warner is reacting to reports by the New Zealand Herald and ABC News that some moviegoers found the film’s frame-rate hard to stomach. The Down Under publication cited “some viewers” who said the “filming technique made them nauseous and dizzy, with some even complaining of migraines.” ABC News quoted a Hobbit fan who tweeted: “You have to hold your stomach down and let your eyes pop at first to adjust.” Jackson’s decision to shoot the movie at 48 frames-per-second — twice the rate of most films — has also prompted complaints that high-definition result requires the moviegoer to process too much visual information. The New Zealander does have one Hollywood heavyweight in his corner. James Cameron predicted that Jackson’s decision to shoot  The Hobbit  at 48 frames per second  would do for high-definition filmmaking what his  Avatar  did for 3D movies. “We charged out ahead on 3D with  Avatar , now Peter’s doing it with  The Hobbit . It takes that kind of bold move to make change.” RELATED STORIES: ‘Hobbit’ Fans Complain Of Dizziness & Nausea ‘The Hobbit’ At 48 FPS: A High Frame Rate Fiasco? ‘The Hobbit’ 3-D Early Review: Back Again, But Not Quite There [ New Zealand Herald , ABC News ]  Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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‘The Hunger Games’ And ‘The Muppets’ Top Grammy Awards Movie Nominees

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The Hunger Games , The Dark Knight Rises , The Muppets , Midnight In Paris and even last year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, The Artist are up for awards this year, but this time it’s for the 55th annual Grammy Awards. Theatrical titles dominated this year’s Grammy categories dedicated to visual media with The Hunger Games receiving two nominations for Best Song (“Abraham’s Daughter”) and Taylor Swift’s “Safe & Sound.” The Muppets also scored two nominations, including Best Song for “Man Or Muppet” in addition to a nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack. Others in the category include this year’s Marley documentary and 2011’s The Descendants and Midnight in Paris . Trent Reznor received a Best Score nom for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo along with Hans Zimmer for The Dark Knight Rises and John Williams for The Adventures of Tintin – The Secret of the Unicorn . The Black Keys’ “Lonely Boy,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You),” Fun’s “We Are Young” Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout Your” and Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” are the Grammys’ nominees for Record of the Year. The Grammy Awards ceremony will be broadcast February 10th on CBS. 55th Grammy Awards’ Visual Media-related nominees follow with information provided by the Recording Academy (for other categories, visit the Grammy’s website ). Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media : The Descendants (Various Artists) [Sony Classical/Fox Music] Marley (Bob Marley & The Wailers) [UMe/Island/Tuff Gong] Midnight In Paris (Various Artists) [Madison Gate Records, Inc.] The Muppets (Various Artists) [Walt Disney Records] Rock Of Ages (Various Artists) [WaterTower Music] Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media : The Adventures Of Tintin – The Secret Of The Unicorn John Williams, composer [Sony Classical] The Artist Ludovic Bource, composer [Sony Classical] The Dark Knight Rises Hans Zimmer, composer [WaterTower Music] The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers [Null/Madison Gate] Hugo Howard Shore, composer [Howe Records] Journey Austin Wintory, composer [Sony Computer Entertainment America] Best Song Written For Visual Media : Abraham’s Daughter (From The Hunger Games ) T Bone Burnett, Win Butler & Régine Chassagne, songwriters (Arcade Fire) [Universal Republic; Publishers: Régine Chassagne, Absurd Music, Win Butler, Henry Burnett Music, Baffle Music] Learn Me Right (From Brave ) Mumford & Sons, songwriters (Birdy & Mumford & Sons) [Walt Disney Records/Pixar; Publisher: Pixar Talking Pictures] Let Me Be Your Star (From Smash ) Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, songwriters (Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty) [Columbia; Publishers: Winding Brook Way Music, Walli Woo Entertainment] Man Or Muppet (From The Muppets ) Bret McKenzie, songwriter (Jason Segel & Walter) [Walt Disney; Publisher: Fuzzy Muppet Songs] Safe & Sound (From The Hunger Games ) T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, John Paul White & Joy Williams, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring The Civil Wars) [Big Machine Records/Universal Republic; Publishers: Sony ATV Tree Publishing, Taylor Swift Music, Sensibility Songs, Absurd Music, Shiny Happy Music, Baffle Music, Henry Burnett Music] [ Source: Yahoo ]

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Dredd, White & Blue? Citizens Petition White House For Death Star, Street Judges & Master Chief Statue

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We the People of the United States…are some weird dudes.  A clever but clearly tongue-in-cheek petition to build a Star Wars -style Death Star isn’t the only petition that’s been started on the Obama administration’s much-debated We The People website.  That’s the place where ordinary citizens can log in and lobby for change. When a petition registered on the site gets 25,000 signatures, the administration issues an official response to it, which, you might guess, means that there are quite a few wackadoo proposals on the site. In addition to the Death Star proposal, which needs more than 21,000 signatures before its Dec. 14 deadline, there is also a petition started by “Sean M” of San Francisco that seeks to establish a “new legal system of motorcycle riding ‘Judges’ who serve as police, judge, jury, and executioner all in one.” If you saw Dredd 3D   or are a fan of Judge Dredd comics, you’ll get the reference. If you’re like me, you’ll also start thinking of Karl Urban riding in formation with leather-clad Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg who also know how to scowl effectively. And for you gamer fans, nathan p of Columbus, Ohio has petitioned the administration to build a statue of Halo hero   Master Chief on the White House lawn, noting:  “He deserves more praise for what he has done.” Compared to those last two petitions, the Death Star proposal at least has some satirical bite, nothing that its construction will “spur job creation…and strengthen our national defense.” It could also boost Disney’s stock. It will be interesting to see if any of these petitions makes their 25,000-signature deadlines, which all fall at the end of next week. As of this posting, the Master Chief   statute proposal is in the lead with more than 4,700 signatures, and Halo fans are a passionate breed.  This could get interesting. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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‘2016 Obama’s America’ Filmmakers Cry Oscar Bias

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The Oscar-winning producer of this year’s anti-Obama doc 2016 Obama’s America is calling foul after the Academy released its Documentary Shortlist for Oscar consideration earlier this week. [ Related: Academy Names 15 As Best Documentary Oscar Contenders; ‘Central Park Five’ Snubbed ] Gerald Molen, who produced 1994’s Schindler’s List (with Steven Spielberg and Branko Lustig) won the Academy Award for Best Picture said political bias is to blame for 2016 not making the cut of 15 titles to advance to the next round. Directed by Dinesh D’Souza, the pic took in a cool $33.44 million domestically, earning more at the box office than the 15 who did advance to Oscar-nomination eligibility combined. Molen, however, said D’Souza believed the Academy – which is criticized by conservatives of being largely liberally biased – might snub the doc. “Dinesh warned me this might happen,” Molen said with a laugh, according to THR . “The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood circles. The film’s outstanding success means that America went to see the documentary in spite of how Hollywood feels about it.” 2016 Obama’s America is not the only box office cash-cow that didn’t make the short list for 2012. Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz’s Katy Perry: Part of Me did not join the fifteen. Though not quite as successful as 2016 , the Katy Perry movie did gross over $25.3 million domestically (and over $32 million worldwide). Both D’Souza’s 2016 and Michael Moore’s 2004 not-so-subtle anti-Bush smash Fahrenheit 9/11 may indicate an emerging cinematic convention: Anti-presidential incumbent non-fictions turn out the crowds, but not the Oscar nominations. Fahrenheit outstripped 2016 at the box office, taking in over $119 million in 2004 dollars and it even scored the Cannes Palme d’Or that year. But it did not receive an Oscar nomination. Still, the Oscar snub has caught the eire of its filmmakers and they’re not above throwing a bit of light-hearted shade to some of those films that did make the list this week. “I want to thank the Academy for not nominating our film,” D’Souza said. “By ignoring 2016, the top-performing box-office hit of 2012, and pretending that films like  Searching for Sugar Man  and  This Is Not a Film  are more deserving of an Oscar, our friends in Hollywood have removed any doubt average Americans may have had that liberal political ideology, not excellence, is the true standard of what receives awards.” [ Source: THR ]

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First Look: ‘Ender’s Game’ Hungering For A Hit?

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I’m not saying all dystopian kid-warrior movies set in the future are going to be shamelessly crib from their successful predecessors (especially those adapted from exceptionally popular, award-winning, decades-old tomes), but something feels and looks really familiar in the first official photo from 2013’s Ender’s Game , based on Orson Scott Card’s Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel. In the first look, which debuted over at EW along with a preview chat with director Gavin Hood ( Tsotsi , Wolverine ), Asa Butterfield stars as Ender, a young Battle School recruit being trained to fight an interstellar war, gets a stern glare from Harrison Ford ‘s Colonel Graff. In the cash-littered wake of The Hunger Games , the first few looks at Ender’s Game hit the futuristic teen sci-fi signposts: A muted blue palette, austere high-tech aesthetic, retro-fascism (meets, hmm — American Apparel ?) garb, kids playing games… TO THE DEATH. But hey, whatever works. Ender’s Game hits theaters November 1, 2013. [via EW ] Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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WATCH: Trailer For ‘Upstream Color,’ From ‘Primer’ Writer-Director Shane Carruth

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Shane Carruth has traversed back from the future to deliver us the first teaser trailer to his upcoming film Upstream Color . The writer/director/star of 2004’s Primer (and, eerily, NOTHING ELSE!!!!) is bringing his secretive new project to Sundance next month. (Between this and Zal Batmanglij’s The East , the Sundance team should seriously consider rechristening the 2013 Fest as “Paranoid Futurists Hit The Slopes!”) After a few days of sending out cryptic twitpics from the @UpstreamColor account (close-ups of text on a page, which some sleuthed were actually taken from the works of Henry David Thoreau) today we finally got a link to a short teaser on Apple. Before this, all we knew about the film was that “a man and a woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism.” After watching the teaser, we don’t know much more. The opening shot includes: A jug of independently spinning ice water, a copy of Thoreau’s Walden (thematic constant!) and a man calmly explaining that his head is made from the same material as the sun. Why not? Some creepy rumbles follow, then the sound of rising strings, then a dude wearing headphones, a shot of a pig, followed by a whole lot of God-knows-what including a man angrily landscaping. Personally, I was taken by the shot of colored vapor emerging from – I dunno, cells? Grapes? It reminded me of the “Bring home the motherlode, Barry!” sequence of Panos Cosmatos’ remarkable head film Beyond The Black Rainbow. Hey, upstream COLOR and BLACK RAINBOW? Could this be some sort of cross-universe dealie? (No, it can’t. Unless you are on the right drugs when you see it, in which case, it’s all one big film, man.) RELATED ARTICLES: Sundance 2013 Images: ‘Fruitvale,’ Shane Carruth’s ‘Upstream Color,’ Rooney Mara & Casey Affleck In ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Sundance 2013: Where Stephenie Meyer, Harry Potter & Pussy Riot Worlds Will Collid e [via Apple ] Follow Jordan Hoffman on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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If Angelina Jolie Is Talking Retirement, What’s She Been Doing Since 2011?

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Angelina Jolie says she’s thinking about giving up acting to be a stay-at-home mom, but hasn’t she been semi-retired for a while now? Jolie, who can generate headlines simply by pursing her pillow lips a certain way, started the Internet buzzing when she told Britain’s Channel 4 News (via the Huffington Post ):  “I think I’m going to have to give up the acting as the kids hit the teenage years…too much to manage at home.”  Jolie also told the British broadcast concern that if her acting career “went away tomorrow I would be very happy to be home with the children.”  But after looking at her work schedule as of late, I can’t help but think that she’s already begun saying her goodbyes. Her last films were released in 2011 and, technically speaking, she didn’t appear in either of them:  She wrote and directed In The Land of Blood and Honey ,  and she was the voice of Tigress in Kung Fu Panda 2 .  In other words, she was last seen onscreen in the flesh in 2010. Yes, she’s currently shooting Maleficent  (and her four-year-old daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt reportedly has a minor role in it), but that doesn’t hit screens until 2014.  She’s also rumored to be talking Tigress again in  Kung Fu Panda 3 , but that isn’t expected out until 2016. According to IMDb , she’s also working on a project with La Femme Nikita  filmmaker Luc Besson slated for 2013, and that Cleopatra and, sadly, Salt 2 may be in the works, but those projects are more tentative. If Jolie does follow through on her intent to retire when her kids hit their teens, she doesn’t have a lot of time for smoldering close-ups. The eldest of her six kids, Maddox is 11, and if you’ve read any Bret Easton Ellis ,  you know that the  kids of Hollywood royalty grow up faster than their civilian counterparts. The good news is that, with her marriage to Brad Pitt in the works ,  Jolie won’t have to worry about fading from the public’s short-term memory if she does retire from the screen for a while. She’s one of those rare actresses whose life makes a more interesting tale than some of the movie choices she’s made. Unless she follows in the footsteps of Brigitte Bardot,  the camera will always love her. [ Channel 4 ,   Huffington Post ]  Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.  

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Ewan McGregor Would ‘Be Happy’ To Do A ‘Star Wars’ Return

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ewan McGregor is a veteran of three Star Wars manifestations and has indicated he’d go for a fourth round should he be asked by the franchise’s new owners. McGregor played a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace , Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and he said he’d be up for a return to the galaxy far, far away once more. “I guess, yeah, of course,” said McGregor to Digital Spy about a potential return. “If they need me, yeah, I’d be happy [to go back].” Speaking with Moviefone earlier this year, McGregor said that his experience was a good one and that Star Wars had gained him some young fans. “It was great to be involved in – to be in that franchise and that legend of Star Wars is really satisfying. It’s nice. Children speak to me about it – before then there hadn’t been many films that I made that children would have watched. I’ve always been very happy about it.” Disney bought Lucasfilm in October for $4.05 billion in a surprising high-profile purchase and is planning to make Episodes VII, VIII and IX as a result. [ Sources: Huffington Post , Digital Spy ]

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‘The Hobbit’ At 48 FPS: A High Frame Rate Fiasco?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The biggest question surrounding Peter Jackson ‘s Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , has nothing to do with its strength of story, its Oscar chances, or whether or not Tolkien fans will embrace yet another uber-ambitious adaptation of their beloved fantasy world, but rather: How does it look? Specifically, how will Jackson’s 48 frames-per-second gamble play after months of talk and one particularly disastrous Cinema Con debut ? I’ll tell you this: The grumblings and rumblings after my screening of The Hobbit – in bold, daring, frustrating 48 frames-per-second 3-D – were decidedly not raves. And that’s a very bad sign for Jackson & Co. One colleague couldn’t believe how poor the 48 fps presentation looked, insisting – or hoping, more like it – that something must have been wrong with the projection. Jackson’s big, game-changing crusade for a frame rate that would part the heavens and open humankind’s hearts and minds and brains to a new way of watching film couldn’t possibly look so unpleasant. Could it? I was curious if, back in April when The Hobbit ‘s 48 fps preview bombed at Cinema Con, the journalists and industry folk who recoiled from the hyper-clarity of the picture onscreen were just overreacting to Jackson’s new cinematic order. “After a minute or two of adjusting,” wrote The New York Daily News’ Ethan Sacks in his embargo-skirting first review , “the higher resolution is eye-popping, similar to discovering HD television for the first time.” HD TV did look rather freaky at first, I’ll give him that, and there’s a shared quality of too much visual information that The Hobbit ‘s 48 fps shares with high-def television. But it didn’t take a few minutes of adjusting to get used to it; even two hours and 40 minutes later my brain was rejecting the look of it. It felt like watching daytime soaps in HD, terrible BBC broadcasts, or Faerie Tale Theater circa 1985, only in amazingly sharp clarity and with hobbits. Part of the problem is there’s too much detail in every frame that the magical filter of cinema that makes most 24 fps film so pleasing to the eye is gone; every prop on a set too clear, and even a performance by someone like the very fine Ian McKellen looks embarrassingly, unnaturally theatrical. Moving images, especially walking Hobbits and dwarves – not as much the CG creatures, for what it’s worth – flit at odd speeds that just never look right. With the exception of a handful of scenes, mostly enhanced by CG vs. shot on interior sets, the 48 fps had me imagining how gorgeous everything might look in 24fps. Those who’ve seen it in 24fps seem much happier with the visual presentation, even if 3-D feels superfluous. As Bilbo made his way along his adventure through Middle Earth, the look of The Hobbit and the accelerated barrage of information prompted a flurry of other films and shows to pop into mind, none of them flattering comparisons. Here, in no particular order, are some of them: Fraggle Rock Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood of Make-Believe Shining Time Station Star Trek colony planets The opening POV shot of Dinosaurs (On the plus side, The Hobbit also inspired me to Google “Galadriel-Gandalf fan fiction,” which I guarantee will be a thing after The Hobbit comes out.) As early reviews continue to hit the web, it appears that I’m not in the minority on the frame rate issue. 48 fps may be D.O.A. even before The Hobbit opens in wide release on December 14. Maybe that’s a good thing; save your dollars and see it in regular ol’ 24 fps. The future may well be 48, but it hasn’t arrived yet. READ MORE: ‘The Hobbit’ 3-D Early Review: Back Again, But Not Quite There ‘Hobbit’ First Review: 48 FPS Is ‘Eye-Popping,’ But Watch Out For The Jar Jar Binks Of ‘LOTR’ The Hobbit 48 FPS Preview Divides Audiences at CinemaCon Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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