Boston-area S&T - The Hobbit! Saturday, January 5th @ 3:20pm - AMC Loews Boston Common

What: The Hobbit in HFR 3D
When: Saturday, Jan 5th @ 3:20pm
Where: AMC Loews Boston Common 19, 175 Tremont St, Boston

Pre-gaming at The Intermission Tavern (228 Tremont St, Boston) starting at 1pm.

Put me down as a maybe. Not sure where I'll be that weekend and I might wait for Demyx to return to the state before seeing this. Preference is for Reading, but I can make it to Natick without problem (protip: Google's directions are terrible if you're coming from the east).

I'll go. I normally don't plan this far in advance.

I'm going to be out of town unfortunately.

S0LIDARITY - I know, it feels weird planning so far out, but figured with the holidays it makes sense.

gravity - no worries, I know the holidays are tough. We'll plan something for early next year too.

Oh, I just mean I'm a lousy planner.

Love to do it, but the weekend before XMas? My wife would kill me. And I can't resurrect like some people.

If it were the week after, then I could get free.

McIrishJihad wrote:

gravity - no worries, I know the holidays are tough. We'll plan something for early next year too.

Woo! I'm in for that.

Hmm...starting to think Mateo might have a point.

The weekend of 12/29 or 1/5 might be a better shot.

What does everyone else think?

I just got home from my Thanksgiving travels. I'll be back home for the weekend of the 29th or the weekend of the 22nd. Haven't decided yet. I can wait til 1/5 to see the Hobbit, especially if it's more convenient for other GWJ'ers.

I'm near certain I'm out of town on the 22nd. Jan. 5th is also out for me.

Put me down. My house hold is abuzz with this movie. We were even listening to the classic BBC Radio reading on Audible the other day. Amazing how much Andy Circus was inspired by the actor who voiced Golum in the BBC Radio telling.

Is this still happening? I no longer have to work the 1/5 weekend and we might be interested in seeing this.

I saw the Hobbit at a Jordan's Imax, and would watch it again. I sat a little too close to the screen and got dizzy from sweeping camera shots at 48FPS.

I'm up for it as well, and free on the 5th.

If the times hold true, it's in IMAX 3d in Reading and Natick at 11a, 2:30p, and 6p.

Make SURE to see it in 48fps, if you go. I didn't like the movie much but the visual experience made it worthwhile.

Blind_Evil wrote:

Make SURE to see it in 48fps, if you go. I didn't like the movie much but the visual experience made it worthwhile.

I hope more theaters start offering it. I hate going to the Fenway theater. Maybe I'll drive the hour to foxboro...

The Jordan's in Stoughton doesn't have Imax? That's surely closer than Foxboro.

Is IMAX 48fps? I thought only the theaters/showngs listed on fandango as "high frame rate" are upgraded.

According to the IMAX blog there were no IMAX theaters in MA showing the hobbit in 48FPS. Now I get to see what I missed.

Blarg.

We just got back fom seeing it in 3D 48fps at The Loop in Methuen, and I loved it. My wife and roommate weren't too into the increased frame rate, but I thought it was stellar. You don't get any blurring at all during action scenes, and the wide shots/crowds are freaking amazing.

So guess that brings up a point: what's more important to folks? 48fps or IMAX?

McIrishJihad wrote:

So guess that brings up a point: what's more important to folks? 48fps or IMAX?

48fps for sure, if a film supports it. Incidentally that's my frequented theater.

McIrishJihad wrote:

So guess that brings up a point: what's more important to folks? 48fps or IMAX?

Is not 3D an option? Otherwise, 48fps sounds cool.

shoptroll wrote:
McIrishJihad wrote:

So guess that brings up a point: what's more important to folks? 48fps or IMAX?

Is not 3D an option? Otherwise, 48fps sounds cool.

The theater here is offering: regular, 3D HFR, IMAX 3D, normal IMAX. I don't know if that's across the board or what, but HFR hasn't been offered without the 3D yet.

48FPS as I found out today that I have only seen the 24FPS version.

shoptroll wrote:
McIrishJihad wrote:

So guess that brings up a point: what's more important to folks? 48fps or IMAX?

Is not 3D an option? Otherwise, 48fps sounds cool.

The Jordan theaters are showing IMAX 3D, a bunch of other places are showing it at 48fps 3D.

Either way, 3D is on the table

So for 3D HFR, we've got a couple of options.

  • AMC Loews in Boston
  • AMC Loews in Danvers
  • Showcase in Revere
  • Showcase in Foxboro
  • Showcase in Dedham
  • AMC in Framingham
  • Showcase in Randolph

Across the board, looks like there's shows around 2-3pm, 6pm, and 9-10pm.

I'd be cool with the 2pm at the AMC Loews Boston. It's right on Tremont street, there's always plenty of parking for those of us driving into the city under the Common, and there's plenty of T stops.

We could shoot for noon-ish and get a bite to eat somewhere around the Common, then head to the theater.

Thoughts?

That sounds fine to me. I could walk to the Showcase in Revere though...

S0LIDARITY wrote:

That sounds fine to me. I could walk to the Showcase in Revere though...

But then I'd have to drive to Revere...

Which isn't saying much coming from Lowell

Question on the high frame rate; is that 48 fps for each eye, or is it 48 fps total simply bringing it back up to 24 fps/eye? if it is the later, it would explain why it is only being offered on 3D movies; the industry considers 24 fps good enough, but realized they weren't actually delivering it for 3D movies. If it is the former, [shrug].

ElectricPi wrote:

Question on the high frame rate; is that 48 fps for each eye, or is it 48 fps total simply bringing it back up to 24 fps/eye? if it is the later, it would explain why it is only being offered on 3D movies; the industry considers 24 fps good enough, but realized they weren't actually delivering it for 3D movies. If it is the former, [shrug].

0.o

Thanks for giving me a reason to trip through Wikipedia.

The net screen result is 48 fps.

I can't find anything stating which 3D system was used for The Hobbit, but I believe it was RealD (based on the glasses that I got when I saw it the other day), then its being projected at 48 fps per eye.

What it comes down to is that the film was shot in 48 fps (with each camera), resulting in 3D playback at 96 fps. Most other films are shot in 24 fps with each camera, resulting in 3D playback at 48 fps to make the RealD technology work.