I think you mean the Hobbit, which was mentioned in parent comment. People didn't like it because they are so used to blurry low frame rate movies. If all movies were filmed like that, people would quickly get used to it. Soon they wouldn't be able to stand 24 fps. It's objectively worse.

Similarly footage shot with digital cameras is often modified to look more like film. There's no objective reason for it most of the time, people are just used to the artifacts of film. Anything else "looks weird". Now stuff like lens flare, shaky cameras, etc, are added to shots made entirely in CG!

I can get past that stuff because it doesn't make the quality that much worse, but low fps definitely does. What's the point of having super high resolution 4k display, if the scenes displayed on it are incredibly blurry from a low frame rate?

I never got to see The Hobbit in 48fps. That was only available in theaters. Blu-Ray standard constrained releases to 24fps, and the studios don't care enough to release a better version.

> Everything looks weird at 48/60fps

Everything looks jarringly different in 48/60fps. That does not make it bad. For several technical reasons, higher framerates look better. If you really want 24/30fps, you can always get it. Just like you can have grayscale on a color display.

I use Smooth Video Project to interpolate frames when I can (anything without DRM), but that still leaves me with a blurry picture, and artifacts. Even so, it's a more comfortable experience, especially with camera panning.