4. 48FPS Has To Go
Ever since Peter Jackson first premiered footage of The Hobbit in 48 frames per second - that's double the normal frame rate - there has been a lot of concern as to whether it's really a pursuit worth bothering with. The results, reportedly, give the film the look of a big-budget TV soap opera from the 1980s, giving the picture a strange colour hue and making the humans seem oddly false, as though rendered with CG. Though our screening of The Hobbit (thankfully) was not exhibited in 48-FPS, those critics who have seen the final product in this format concede by and large that while it makes the waterfalls and gigantic vistas look more lifelike, it is often a distracting flourish that the brain takes far too long to adjust to. Though even the best technological advancements had their critics to begin with, the overwhelming ambivalence to Jackson's approach - that, really, it's not worth the hassle - suggests that it's just a fruitless endeavour that will likely be forgotten once the films get released on home video. Thankfully, to see it in 48-FPS, you'll have to likely go to a specialist screening at an IMAX cinema, so seeing the normal - and apparently preferable - version at your local cinema is not a challenge. Though there's no way Jackson is going to back down on this gimmick, at least it'll be easy enough to ignore.