Bloated (But Pleasing)

I saw The Hobbittoday in all its 48fps glory, which shows considerable restraint considering the hype I endured all those weeks Down Under. An example of which I offer you here, the safety video I sat through on each of my Air New Zealand flights. It was funny the first time.

I was prepared to go into the theater and roll my eyes a lot, since Peter Jackson has turned one children’s book into three whole films— that’s on the order of two minutes of screen time per printed page. Jackson is a dir...