I've read them, but I thought people were just enthusiastic about movies.
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 December 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
no they are film critics
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 11 December 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Violating an embargo will *at most* earn you a nuisance lawsuit that gets thrown out but leaves you with a legal bill for having to go that far (not against the law, tbh), and will *at least* get you blackballed by an annoyed publicist who has already negotiated exclusives across the media. For some publications/people, a flout is a snide way of saying 'actually we don't need you or your cheesy clients'.
― special vixens unit (suzy), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
In his months with the Na'vi, Jake experiences their life as the "true world" and that inside his crippled body locked in a coffin-like transponding device, where he can control his avatar, is as the "dream." The switch to the other side is gradual for his body remains with the human colony while his consciousness is sometimes elsewhere.
^^^^^ review written by cameron's groundbreakin ProlixRobotix AI movie reviewing technology. no humans or writers necessary.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Friday, 11 December 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Really looking forward to this tbh. Today I bought tickets for two showings.
The word is good:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6786507/Avatar-The-first-reviews.html
5 stars from both Empire and Total Film as well, which was to be expected really. Even so...
― DavidM, Friday, 11 December 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
So, this is like The Matrix, right?
― NotEnough, Friday, 11 December 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not a critic, I just have a very low status job within the film & TV industry, somewhere between mucking out Trigger's stables and ironing Gok Wan's shirts. I worked pretty hard (in my own tiny way) on this film, hence the prem invite.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 11 December 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
interesting on the reviews...two dudes i work with saw about 1/2 hour of it at E3 and were raving about it, but i have been arguing with them ever since saying they were just being fan boys and shit cuzza the 3D and all. but who knows? maybe it is good.
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 11 December 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
mmmmMMRFMFFFMmmm.
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Friday, 11 December 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Play some loud evil music, s1ocki. It'll distract you.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like sigourney weaver in aliens where she's trapped in the lab by burke and she's banging on the glass and nobody can hear her tbh
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Friday, 11 December 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Rupert Murdoch turns off the monitor...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
bang 'em on the glass
(sorry)
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
in a 3d IMAX theater noone can hear you scream iirc
― 囧 (dyao), Friday, 11 December 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Pardon my dubiousness at suggestions I "...make sure you can say you were there when the future of cinema began." The real game-changers - from "Jaws" and "Star Wars" to "The Matrix" and even "Terminator 2" and "Titanic," to some degree - arrived without this kind of carefully managed hype.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 December 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Haters to the rear!
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 11 December 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, "Star Wars" started the whole practice of selling your event movie at sci-fi/comic conventions!
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 11 December 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The real game-changers - from "Jaws" and "Star Wars" to "The Matrix" and even "Terminator 2" and "Titanic," to some degree - arrived without this kind of carefully managed hype.
i wasn't alive for "jaws" or "star wars", though i know that they had near-unprecedentedly large simultaneous releases (oi-oi), but dude you have got to be shitting me on the last three. they had the shit hyped outta them. if they felt "less present" it's mainly because they were pre-mass-uptake-of-the-internet so you didn't have them in your face at your work-station. but "titanic" was the most expensive film of all time (inflation possibly not adjusted) and "the matrix" was hailed *as a gamechanger* and so, really, was "terminator 2" for its effects work.
― Smokey and the S'Banned It (history mayne), Friday, 11 December 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ya it's not like titanic quietly slipped into theaters and modestly blew everyone's minds
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Friday, 11 December 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
T2 was EVERYWHERE for awhile; I remember seeing it in the theaters on opening and then like six times more and the place was always packed^HS SFX nerd
― that is a whole discussion within itself that is worth debating (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
3 of those 5 movies are horrible
― a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 December 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
avatar more like ashitr
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm too young to really remember the ad hype around "Jaws" or "Star Wars" but I do remember taking them as given facets of existence, like kitchens and driveways, so I infer from that that there was a significant amount of hype around both of them if it could reach through the consciousness of a 2/4-year-old living off of a gravel road out in the country.
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe your parents made you eat gravel
― a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
times were tough, we (literally) scraped by
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
what a rockin post
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
it made me grit my teeth
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I hate my job
pebble
― that is a whole discussion within itself that is worth debating (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I was gonna make a joke about drinking a mr. pibb in france but then I just couldn't do it
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"joke"
there's a pile of reviews on AICN now, so I'd say the embargo is effectively over.
― Simon H., Friday, 11 December 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
wonderfully formed embargo
― that is a whole discussion within itself that is worth debating (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
reviews are everywhere now
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
might as well spill the beans
It's like being one of Tiger's mistresses and not talking to the media.
― ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I know sexy
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts - i'm technically an 'arts & culture' critic but have done my fair share of film stuff. glad not to be a full-on film critic tbh. yeah lol embargoin my unprofessional opinion: i am going to see this again next week just to make sure i wasn't high because it was AWESOME (and yet some things abt it could've been better)
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The thing I keep forgetting re: this movie is that I tend to really really really like James Cameron movies (although some, like "Titanic", have the shine wear off of them really really quickly).
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
You'll laugh, you'll cry etc.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
while watching you're really not gonna be thinking abt the shine wearing off
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 December 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonder what the first film will be where its embargo just trundles on forever, never to end?
― James Mitchell, Friday, 11 December 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post to a bunch of people
No one talked about the game-changing special effects of "T2" for months in advance. Same with "The Matrix," which, like "Titanic," actually only did modestly at the box office when it first opened ($37 million opening for "The Matrix," $28 million opening weekend for "Titanic" - for some scale, albeit not totally analogous, "Spider-Man" opened with $115 mil; maybe more illustrative, Tim Burton's Batman" opened around $43 million ten years before "The Matrix"). As for "Star Wars" and "Jaws," no one knew what they had until they had it. They were all "game-changers" in retrospect. Cameron called "Avatar" a game-changer MONTHS ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 December 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
game changer = Phrases I Never Want to Hear Uttered by Talking Heads/Press/Politicians Ever Again
― a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 December 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Let's see some! I don't know where to look..
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 11 December 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
to start with:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Friday, 11 December 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I have no idea what you are talking about re: "The Matrix" considering that entire half hours of entertainment news television programs were dedicated to talking about the filming techniques and wire work that went into the making of it.
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
My memory could be wrong, but (and I saw the movie opening night, mostly by chance) I don't recall months of anticipation for and lead-up to "The Matrix" and do recall it taking a lot of people by surprise, which in turn lead to all the making-of features. That's why I cited its opening box office - it was no out-of-the-gate hype-baby hit. Sites like aintitcool were up and running back then, weren't they? Were they going nuts? (Honest question; I've been trying to dig up that site's contemporaneous reviews).
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 December 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the matrix was one of those films that once the commercials hit people were like "whoa" (lol), but unlike some of these other flicks it wasn't something that was hotly anticipated. i mean keanu reeves/laurence fishburne sci-fi from the directors of 'bound' could have been anticipated as 'johnny mnemonic 2'
― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Friday, 11 December 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I recall nothing but mountains of hype aimed mostly at sci-fi/comic book geeks in the months leading up to its release.
― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Friday, 11 December 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link