Very disturbing. I didn't mind that the recreated TV scenes looked like it was shot on video, but at my local drive-in it looked like the whole movie was presented in 30fps. I don't believe that the movie projectors at the drive-in (or any movie theatre for that matter) would use motion smoothing or have it built in as a feature. However it might be possible that some projectors might play something at 30fps (if the original source calls for it) and may not be able to switch back to 24fps when it's called for therefore using a type of motion smoothing.

I see movies all the time at my local drive-in and it's rare when a movie displayed at 30fps. Usually when I observe this, I do a search on the internet to check the technical information on how a movie was recorded and discover I'm correct 100% of the time. But with this movie, the only info I could find about something being shot in 30fps was for the TV scenes; not the entire movie. According to IMDB, some of it was shot on 16mm film, old TV cameras were used during the studio scenes, and digital capture was used for the rest of the movie, but there's no mention anywhere that the rest of the movie was captured at 30fps. Digital cinema cameras can of course capture motion at 30fps and faster, but again there's no mention of that at least from what I could find.

Interestingly, watching the trailer on YouTube the whole trailer looks like it's presented in 24fps, even the video scenes look like there's a stutter here and there (due to the conversion of video's 30fps to 24fps.) Of course digital video cinema cameras are usually set up to capture motion at 24fps, but that's not the topic I'm talking about here.

Has anyone else seen that effect at the theatre you watched it at?