[Dubstar]

I saw 'The Hobbit' again yesterday morning but in Atmos - and ... holy mother of god! the throwing around of sound to varying positions in the auditorium was unreal - you got the sense of the height of the Trolls with their voices above the dwarves. The spiders running up and over Radagast's home. The Thunder Giant's fight with the volley of boulders flying in every direction. Gollum's displaced voice echoing in his cave that envelops Bilbo and us the audience. The warg's devouring the orc directly behind the viewer. While the sound was a bit too loud at times, the more quieter moments involving the music score, the sound effects involving birds, insects just opened up the surround channels of sound to astonishing effect. This simply trounced even the standard 7.1 mix of the film. Even though this presentation was not HFR, the image and specifically the brightness was affected and the 3D pop was diminished as a result.