Excellent and Entertaining, rich history of Middle-Earth, 48FPS is nice!

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2012)

I saw the movie on 12/12/12 in Zurich. Our party purposely booked the 48FPS 3D version. We had to check out that new technology.
After reading early reviews of the movie and especially of the 48FPS technology, I was getting skeptical about what was going to expect us.
But be assured this movie totally rocks!! Also the 48FPS are very noticeable, but in a positive way. Breathtaking! I will be watching it again though in 24FPS 3D just to compare. And then again at 24FPS 2D...
I am a Tolkien geek who loves the books. Still I am very well aware that certain changes are necessary to bring the story to the big screen effectively.
I read the Hobbit and the appendices just a couple of weeks before seeing the movie and I was delighted that certain scenes made it into the movie almost one-to-one not only from The Hobbit, but also from the Lord of the Rings appendices. And for the changes that Peter Jackson and his team made, I fully OK with them. After all this is their interpretation of the books.
To me as a Tolkien geek, this gives the movie so much more history and richness, just beautiful! A lot people in early reviews complained about the running time of The Hobbit. That it's too long. Well our entire party (also non-geeks and average movie goers) after the movie did not feel like 'phew, it's finally over' but rather felt like 'what? over already, oh man can't wait to see it again...'... which we gladly will.
Don't trust any movie critics, go and see The Hobbit yourself to judge it. I'm very sure most people will love, no matter what the critics tell you!!!