saw the preview for this before paranormal activity and some guy a few rows back said "that looks terrible"
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
If Paranormal Activity ends up being a bigger success than Avatar I am so going to laugh. (In terms of budget vs. return it's already the winner of the decade.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
I basically don't know a single thing about this movie other than what's in that New Yorker profile (hadn't heard of it before), but the article did make me want to see it.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
trailer i saw had a lot more (awful) dialogue
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
john why did that article make you interested? this seems like the exact opposite of the types of movies you usually like
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
welcome to pandora!
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
I didn't know someone made a stage version of Thundercats!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well, I'll admit I was greatly put off by this: "The third act of “Avatar” contains what Jon Landau, the producer, calls “the mother of all movie battles.”" But I think the movie seems like it could be a visual wonderland, especially in 3D. And I like high-concept sci-fi like A.I.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I loved that article but did not come away feeling like i would want to be in proximity to james cameron under any circumstances.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.” He was practically out of breath. “The banshee lives! He’s a fierce-looking sonuvabitch.”
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:10 PM
ahaha fuck lol
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.” He was practically out of breath. “The banshee lives! I am the reason LARPERS sing 'The goddess wears a thong!'"
― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
“the mother of all movie battles.”"
CGI-driven gigantic battle scenes are usually pretty boring IMHO.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Exactly.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 19:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
New trailer
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
And various reactions to same.
Everything about that just makes me think Cameron woke up one morning and decided "You know I liked the technology in the forest bits in The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith, why didn't George make a full movie out of it?"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's pretty amazing how a guy who was once, like, the toughest mfer when it came to writing and directing action films has turned into such a weirdo furry.
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Creatures and "jungle wonders" still look cheezy as hell, and the sawed-off jarhead dialogue sounds worse, but the new trailer does make it look like an entertaining (and perhaps even moving) Aliens/Abyss-style military adventure flick. In, yeah, a weirdo furry kinda way.
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
CGI-driven gigantic battle scenes are usually pretty boring IMHO
― modescalator (blueski), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
xxp Well it was always there. See the The Abyss.
― We call them "meat hemorrhoids" (Alex in SF), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
at least i think i got tired of it after 2003 xp
― modescalator (blueski), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
It would be so, so awesome if everything we've seen/heard about "Avatar" was actually restricted to the first 30 minutes of the movie, and the rest was all, like, talk. Sort of like the opposite of "Aliens."
I say with tongue obviously in cheek, because a) this would never happen and b) Cameron is actually a pretty weak writer, classic line-or two and bits of "The Abyss" aside. "Avatar" just seems like such an obviously, well, obvious allegory - and lo and beyond, the primitive other has lessons to teach us all! - that it would take a really clever, perceptive screenwriter to transform it from spectacle to anything substantive. Giant blue Thunder-Ewoks don't help matters.
That author of that b.s. "New Yorker" profile, by the way, clearly had seen little to no more of the film than any of us plebes have. Either that or he was legally obligated to keep it confidential.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 October 2009 18:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Should I talk about the bit where they -- "
"Shut up, you."
"Sorry."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 18:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh, by the way - what fucking bureaucrat would call the planet Pandora? That's just asking for trouble! What were the runner-ups? Pompeii? Krakatoa? Hades?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 October 2009 18:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Titanic, Hindenburg and Lusitania were also under consideration.
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also, Last.fm.
(ba dum bump)
― Bears Are Alive! (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
"we're headin' to the planet warsaw ghetto..."
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 30, 2009 1:51 PM
ha yeah thats the one i saw
― am0n, Friday, 30 October 2009 18:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol giovanni ribisi
― am0n, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
That’s a great trailer. Anyone who H8s on this is dead inside and should move on to another career.Comment by Movie Fan — October 29, 2009 @ 12:03 pm Reply to this post
Okay, is it me or does this sound like a James Cameron sock-puppet? Comment by G. Lira — October 29, 2009 @ 2:13 pm Reply to this post
― am0n, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm the king of the world woo
― da croupier, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
The design of this whole thing, right down to the title font is just atrocious. It's like his aesthetics just woke up from cryosleep.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
district 9 meets ferngully
― am0n, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
I read that thing in the New Yorker last week. His hyper-detailed approach to everything (getting special cameras made, special underwater techniques on The Abyss, etc. etc.) EXCEPT the actual writing is quite astonishing. "We can hire an entire division of an aeronautics company to make us a special camera plane but we can't hire ONE. SINGLE. FUCKING. ACTUAL. WRITER. Nor do we think writers actually do their jobs very well or we would have hired one."
Cunt.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 30 October 2009 21:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
uhh, that's because he writes.
Would you prefer he hire dozens of script doctors like they did for the first Charlie's Angels movie?
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 30 October 2009 22:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
ANd what's with that Woody Allen not passing along work to some screenwriters anyway?
― Bears Are Alive! (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 30 October 2009 22:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
James Cameron's Interiors
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 October 2009 22:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 30, 2009 2:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
what's your point?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Friday, 30 October 2009 22:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's a great fuckin' profile!!
this looks sorta awesome u_u
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 October 2009 22:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think a lot of folks are failing to view this trailer/film thru the eyes of a naive 11-year-old sci-fi geek. Seems like that's who it's aimed squarely at, and on that level, carping about the font seems ridiculous. "The Little Mermaid was charming, but that font!"
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Friday, 30 October 2009 22:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
but this doesn't look charming at all
― da croupier, Friday, 30 October 2009 23:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Aye, this just looks gash.
― krakow, Friday, 30 October 2009 23:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
is this a sudan allegory btw
― ice cr?m, Friday, 30 October 2009 23:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
nah brazil
― am0n, Friday, 30 October 2009 23:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
the movie or
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
or?
― am0n, Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:59 (3 years ago) Permalink