avatar was good, 3d was cool. Felt like an RPG that ended quick and I didn’t have to put forth much effort.
im surprised nobody realising the fact that using the term “unobtanium” helps the movie stay as realistic as possible, giving the mineral a neutral description is very smart
I love the fact the big planet next to pandora has a storm making it resemble Jupiter
It was literally a blue Jupiter.
was i the only one that was watching the big war scene and kept thinking that it reminds me of Starcraft?
yes you were, but in hindsite…I can see it.
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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/12/hollywood-has-been-so-enthralled.ars Some information regarding getting 3D @ home…seems next year is when it will finally get hot and heavy, which means it will be out my price range for another five years lol. by then Avatar will be in the $5 bucket along with TF3.
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haha i was, i was thinking more warcraft tho.
I was like wow, those ground units aren’t doing anything to those air units… and then the air came along and i was like, now they might have a chance.
I actually though was this is like watch a real life rts more than a few times.
Great movie!
Saw it in IMAX 3D last night… I kinda prefer the Real-3D. The glasses were way more comfortable and things in the foreground didn’t jitter as much. But the huge screen and sound made up for it… but god damn. I’ve seen this movie three times and still come out of the theater wanting to watch it again, right away. I’ll see it at least a couple more times in theaters…
Real life is just so boring now that I’ve seen Avatar :lol:
Yeah just saw it again and already planning my next trip to go. Saw it with my dad and he called up his friend after and he just got back from seeing that new Sandra Bullock movie and told him he needs to see avatar. Said his girlfriend doesn’t want to because it’s too much like Star Wars, I just said “Tell her it’s by the Titanic director, she’ll like it now”
Also IMAX 3D was awesome especially since ours was a DLP projector, shit was in 1080p, Hubble 3D looks fucking hype too, the one shot of the astronaut floating into the room is AWESOME. That new Dreamworks Taming your Dragon or w/e looks good too.
I kept thinking it could of been a WoW movie with the blue guys as Night Elves (who live in a big tree).
Pffft. The girlfriend doesn’t need to see EVERY movie with you. She can keep her ass at home.
for the record, this is the first and only movie I’ve ever seen by myself in theaters. Saturday afternoon nobody was around and I had fuck all to do so I caught an afternoon show… don’t think there was any better way to spend my time.
this is so extremely true, exactly how I would describe this movie
Last Samurai in Zangarmarsh
This movie is overrated as all hell
Everybody will try to tell you “its amazing, the next step, blah blah blah” but they’re just captivated by the amazing visuals (which are amazing no doubt). If you’re looking for this movie for the story within, think twice… cause the story in this movie is balls, relies on cliches, and is generally a lackluster effort
The more people lavish it with praise the more I hate it, I don’t really know why, but it’s just a sign that the modern movie audience would rather be spoon fed explosions and blue people sex than any meaningful story or message, or theme, not one thats been done a thousand times before already
i was thinking it could be cool, maybe a little subtle. Nope
10 minutes in
“This is why were here! MOney for this rock, im the greedy character!”
etc
effects were nice i guess, really wish i would have at least seen it in 3d
by the 2 hr 10 min mark ~ i was pleading for the movie to end…
^you really haven’t seen it if you haven’t seen it in 3d
if you hink this movie is boring you have the worst case of ADD of all time
its because you are a hater. Move is #25 on imdb, 94% with RT top critics, universal praise on metacritic, set a record for biggest December opening and biggest opening of all time for an all-new movie, blah blah blah. This movie is not overrated.
The first explosion in this movie isn’t until about two hours in :lol: There are certainly some meaningful messages and Cameron uses cliches as storytelling shorthand… this movie is 2 hours and 40 minutes at a breakneck pace. You recognize the characters, plot pieces, etc. and fill in all the blanks on your own without having banal dialog jammed in your ears. It never gets bogged down in exposition or trying to make its point - its always a couple lines, then it moves on, and it does so the whole time… All the hallmarks of a very competently told story.
I think he went with a generic story because generic stories are reliable. It’s pretty obvious that he wasn’t concerned with story-telling as much as he was concerned with groundbreaking visuals, so it’s understandable why he just recycled cliched elements.
The thing is, the visuals were so good and the world he created was so enjoyable to watch, that everything else (including the horrible soundtrack) can be overlooked.
Honestly, it wasn’t really the visuals that wrapped me up in everything. the visualls annoyed me the first 5 minutes, then once accustom - they bled so well that I stopped looking at it from the stand point of “shiny graphics!”. I was actually captivated by the actors and their interaction, the way emotion was brought across, everything with regards to the setting/characters was flawless and extremely well delivered.
I’m going to be a alittle crude for times sake.
GTFO if you really want to complain about the storyline. why? Because how many stories over the past two decades don’t boil down to the same fucking sotries? Its just the icing that makes the vanilla cake taste like choclate this time. Lets be honest 75% of all stories are about someone who’s not accepted becoming accepted and triumphing some form of diversity. It can be about a DAMN SPELLING BEE and its the case. Yes you knew they were going to fall for each other, but ya know what, show me 5 movies where you didn’t know there was going to be some kind of romantic fling…seriously, this is something that just sorta irks me. I hated TF2 with a semi-passion, and it had absolutly NOTHING to do with the base plot, because you know, in action movies its almost always about the bad guys wanting soemthing that either the bad guys have or are trying to protect, that will make the bad guys stronger and hell them ‘rule’ “XYZ”. It was a bad movie because the icing had too much sugar in it.
So people loving isn’t tied just to ‘zomg real looking polygons’…I’m sorry I actually got an emotional rise out of some of the interaction between characters and events. When the tree moment happens, I didn’t care about special affects or anything, it was like “oh shit I don’t believe it”…period.
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compared to some of the other great epics I’ve seen… Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator… Avatar’s soundtrack was fucking weak. So weak. Not one memorable hook in the whole thing.
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the whole second half of the movie
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how bout the bittersweet ending? Where even though the natives won, we’ve already done a massive amount of damage to the planet and destroyed some irreplaceable things like Home Tree, the sacred grove, burned down acres of the forest, bulldozed huge swathes of it… when that tree comes down it damn near brings a tear to my eye
And I liked the romance too. I’ll take some innocent glances and subtle body language over smaltzy dialog any day. The bit in the grove when she was asking about other women and the looks she gives crack me up /gaymoment[/details]