[jerf]

I think it all breaks down into three categories:

    * People who like it
    * People truly not liking it because they're not used to
      it, but someday they'll look back and think 24fps looks awful
    * People trying to send hipster social signals by being more
      cinema snob than thou

Not sure what the exact breakdown is, but I wouldn't underestimate that third category.

If it seems like I've not left space for people genuinely and indefinitely not liking it... no, I haven't. It's a proper superset of capabilities. If for some bizarre reason 24 fps is truly called for, it can be used. I expect that to happen about as often as we bizarrely have a sudden need for 12fps footage in the movies of today, which is to say, never. (No, I don't mean slow-mo, I mean a sudden frame rate drop for its own sake.)

[skore]

With 90% of the negative comments breaking down to "It doesn't look 'cinematic'", a single word judgment that seems to spare them deeper involvement with the subject - I would agree that it whiffs strongly of hipsterism.

[lhnn]

How about the breakdown of people who like it?

  * People who think it actually looks good
  * People trying to be so hipster they look down on hipsters who wax nostalgic about 24fps

Seriously, I have noticed the "too real to be cinematic" phenomenon since Blu-Ray and Spider-Man 3 came out. It looked like I was watching the people 3 feet away from me, and I don't feel like I'm watching a movie, I'm watching a Spanish soap opera.

I like 24 fps for the same reason I like deadtree books: the experience.

[jerf]

Sorry, I'm totally more metacontrarian than thou. Don't even try.

Let me reiterate the most important point I had, which is that if 24 fps is so wonderful, directors will choose to use it (after the initial rush has worn off). Nothing stops them.

But they won't, because if 48fps has any fundamental problems, it's that it's still too slow.

I'm sure you can Kickstarter up some shutter glasses to blink at 24fps if you get that desperate.

[lurkinggrue]

We are so used to high frame rates in Soap Opera's low frame rates for films and things with special effects we have trained generations to look at this and think Soap Opera.

It has become a kind of unconscious culture.