In a press conference Wednesday to promote The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, director Peter Jackson commented on reviews that nearly universally slammed the 48FPS format of the movie as essentially not quite being ready. Almost all thought that some moments were amazing while others looked pathetically fake. The result are reviews that were more negative then might have been otherwise.

"I'm fascinated by reactions," he told the room full of journalists from across the country. "I'm tending to see that anyone under the age of 20 or so doesn't really care and thinks it looks cool, not that they understand it but they often just say that 3D looks really cool. I think 3D at 24 frames is interesting, but it's the 48 that actually allows 3D to almost achieve the potential that it can achieve because it's less eye strain and you have a sharper picture which creates more of the 3-dimensional world."

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