Harmy said:

I guarantee you that you've not seen the Hobbit projected at 8K - best case scenario it was 4K and probably 2K, which is what a lot of theaters still use (including digital IMAX). But either way you saw a 2K copy of the film, because the whole trilogy went through a 2K DI process. And I think any hyper-realism stemmed from the 48fps, because I felt the whole thing actually lacked detail, especially in people's faces, compared to movies shot on film.

Fair enough, I used a bad example. But regardless there's a lot of HD-hype currently going on, and it seems very pointless. And even though they probably weren't filmed in as high a resolution as 8k, a lot of the digitally shot films I've seen in the last few years have always looked very hyper-real, which I don't think really compliments them. But the 48 fps thing is definitely something I hope don't catch on.
Digital is a weird thing; it either feels like it has less quality than film, or it kind of overcompensates.

Either way, I'm not an expert on either digital or film, but The Hobbit and several other digital films I've seen just feels 'off" in a way I can't accurately describe in any other way than "artificial" and "hyper-real."