Oh for goodness sake, while those two issues are related, they're not the same thing at all. The Hobbit was shot in 48fps, while frame-interpolation is created on the fly, and usually with cheap hardware. This is the difference between optical zoom and digital zoom in cameras. (Optical zoom is fantastic, assuming you're using a tripod or image stabalization, while digital zoom sucks.) Frame interpolation is a gimmick like bass boost on stereos, some people think it looks/sounds better, but mostly it's just using cheap tricks that will introduce odd artifacts as often as it does anything helpful, probably more often. Actually shooting in 48fps is not just a gimmick, even though some people don't like the choice artistically. There are real benefits to higher frame rate, and it's ignorant statements like yours that are keeping cinema from moving forward.