We went and saw it yesterday, and I really enjoyed it.  It was so nice to go back to Middle Earth again, and although I know it may not be enough info to spread throughout a trilogy, I am sort of glad to have more of these movies to look forward to again.  I thought the beginning, although pretty accurate, was a little slow getting going.  I loved the stuff with Gollum and Bilbo, and the action in the later parts of the movie was pretty great too.  Also loved the musical callbacks to Lord of the Rings.  Like I said, just nice to visit Middle Earth again, and kind of cool each time we got to see a character from those movies appear.

Like others, it doesn't compare to the Lord of the Rings experience to me either, but as a whole (like Scott mentioned) I can see what they are doing with the whole six film saga.  The Hobbit story, while great, just isn't the same as the LOTR for me.  I honestly didn't go into the Hobbit expecting to like it as much as Fellowship, Two Towers, or Return of the King...but I did still really like it, and hope to see it again.  Plus, it makes me appreciate those previous films all over again (I've been rewatching them lately as well).  I was maybe one of the rare ones here who hadn't read the books when I originally saw the movies in my early 20s.  I started learning more about the books as the approach to Fellowship was building, and went the opening weekend and was just blown away.  The other two films didn't disappoint either, but the feeling I had after seeing FOTR was one of those movie experiences I'll never forget.  It was sort of a "how have I not read these?" moment, and the anticipation for the sequels was great.  As I've said before, the Star Wars Original Trilogy are my favorite movies, but the LOTR trilogy are the best overall movies I've seen (particularly in the whole "nerdy" genre of movies).  But, back to the Hobbit, I thought it was well done, and I hope to see it again.  Already looking forward to the sequel next year.

I hadn't read so much about motion sickness, but more so about parts of the movies looking like they are "sped up".  I read an article somewhere that had several quick reviews from the 48 fps screening, and more than one mentioned parts looking like "Benny Hill" where they seemed to be moving too quickly.  Who knows.  I know they have mentioned before that it really is the best way to see a movie, but that our brain doesn't comprehend it correctly yet after being used to 24 for so many years.  Something like that anyways...

Yeah, I'm curious what will happen with the BAD waves as well.  I was sort of thinking that the online retailers would usually have had them up for preorder any time now, and I haven't seen anything yet.  Like Jeff mentioned, I really hope they aren't planning on having yet another line out there at the same time.  It seems like there are already too many as it is.  I guess it is nice that TVC is sticking around and giving people a chance that may have missed those figures, but I think personally I'm pretty much caught up with what I want, so if BAD does get delayed, it might be a pretty significant break for people like me (which I guess is alright too).

Really looking forward to seeing it this weekend.  I've been rewatching LOTR just because I've been in a Middle Earth mood in anticipation of this.  From what I've seen, the reviews have been solid (although not so much for the 48 fps), so we'll see.  I don't know that we even have a theater in town playing that version anyways, and I'm still trying to decide if it is worth paying extra for 3D or not.  Either way, can't wait.

The teaser/announcement trailer is up now at itunes, with a full trailer expected to be attached to the Hobbit next week (and online the 17th, according to this site):

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrekintodarkness/

I've been thinking about this again lately as I've been going through things, and I really do have to consider everything when we're looking at another trilogy (and 10+ years) of stuff coming our way eventually.  I'm really excited about new Star Wars on the big screen, and - as expensive as it can get - the "movie years" for Star Wars are usually pretty exciting collecting-wise as well.  It sometimes (in the past) makes the prices lower since they move so much product, it allows them to take risks on different or larger things like vehicles/playsets, and other things.

Also, I look at our office (where my collection resides now), and things are pretty much full now.  Thinking of another trilogy of stuff makes me realize that either things have to get packed up, sold off, or just an overall collecting refocus.  The figures themselves aren't too bad, but if you add in vehicles or anything else, it gets out of hand space-wise.

I know overall that I'll buy at least some of it, and if I really like the movies, maybe a lot of it.  I had a lot of excitement for the prequels as well at the time of their release, and although I still like those movies well enough, I have ended up selling off or packing up a lot of that stuff - aside from the figures.  This time it may be different if it has more OT characters/feel, I may be more invested.  As we look at the prospect of 3, 4, 5 or 10 more Star Wars movies, I think I'll look forward to them all but have a feeling when it is all said and done everyone will have "their" trilogy or favorite.  The OT will always remain my primary focus, but I am looking forward to having new movies to anticipate.  I'm also glad I have a couple years to figure out what I'm going to do collecting-wise.  I went from thinking things were almost done to opening up a whole new door for stuff.

Yeah, I'm sort of wondering if the other retailers are going to get these or not.  Not any word from WM or Target that I've seen, and you would think they'd want them out there with the movie a couple weeks out now.  I haven't been in our TRU for a week or two now, but every time I've been there it has still just been two pegs of the basic, 3 3/4" figures in the middle of the NECA/etc. action figure aisles, nothing else.  I'd expect they would have at least an endcap display soon with the movie release.