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>>8316281
Even the difference between 24 and 30-ish fps is noticeable for most people on a subconscious level; The Hobbit was actually just twice the traditional movie frame rate (48fps, it didn't go up to 60), and people hated it because our brains processed it as similar to cheap home-recorded video, since we're conditioned to associate a certain type of film artifacts such as motion blur with "proper" films. The higher frame rate it was shot at removed almost all motion blur, thoroughly weirding people out.

An interesting bit of trivia is that Pixar for example didn't set off to do CGI animated films in the 1980s until they finally figured out an efficient way of computing motion blur for their renders, since they were convinced people would reject the results without that subtle "cinematic" element.

Lots of modern TVs actually fake higher frame rates through automatic frame interpolation; I personally hate the results and tend to switch it off, but I've noticed people are getting accustomed to it. Worse yet, some networks actually broadcast pre-interpolated HFR versions of movies, removing the choice from the viewer altogether.