I just saw The Hobbit in a theater with 3-D effects and HFR (high-frame-rate) projection. Gandalf shared some words of wizard wisdom but I couldn’t concentrate on them. I was distracted by the vast landscape of pores and wrinkles that was Ian McKellen’s face. At one point a scrape on poor little Bilbo’s knuckles made my stomach lurch. And don’t get me started on the troll boogers. Even worse the endless battle scenes were a dizzying whirl of colors and shapes. You couldn’t get far enough away from this screen to see them properly.   The point is whether ...