You should go see it when it comes out. You all should.
Don't you see, the embargo WANTS you to say things like this!
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
what happens if you do have an opinion btw? hunted down by a terminator? someone blows up goodison park? all your friends and family are subjected to torture via blue furry porno?
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Shot thru a building on the end of a missile IIRC
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure that movie publicists are in fact terminators
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm download this because floating rocks and blue tits look better at low bitrate - more left to the imagination. hopefully i'll find a foreign language version with english subtitles to really enhance the magic.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Can you say if it's better than Delgo?
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 10 December 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw this.and feel a need to share that completely neutral fact delivered in an emotion-free and criticism-devoid tone.back dec 18.
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL i signed a non-disclosure thing once before a test screening of Natural Born Criminals in Seattle but I hated it so goddamn much I wrote a review in The Stranger the next week...
― vadnais heights is cougartown (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Obv I had no plans to be a movie reviewer tho
Various Twitter responses posted here.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, Natural Born Killers, duh
fucking piece of shit.
― vadnais heights is cougartown (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
well, unless those are all socks I guess my optimism was at least a wee bit justified?
― vadnais heights is cougartown (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks for making my hollywoodlaw-abiding ways even more painful to me, ned
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think they mind when you effusively OMFG!!!! yr twitter, right?
wanna draft an agreement that you can positively review avatar whenever, otherwise u gotta stfu forever.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"You have officially been to your last Con in which blue people, spoken Navi and the word "hometree" were absent."
― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
there's this bullshit on the guardian tonight: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/dec/10/james-cameron-avatar-preview
i assume most of the british tabloids will have a 100 words on the film itself in their celeb section report of the premiere tomorrow too. the sun already has some stuff, i think.
― caek, Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/2765598/We-get-first-look-at-3D-blockbuster-Avatar.html
― caek, Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
haha yeah i guess in the age of the internet they totally expect a breach tbh
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
'You have officially been to your last Con in which blue people, spoken Navi and the word "hometree" were absent.'
This is extremely useful because it clearly demarcate who will want to see this movie.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The near-impossibility of faithfully bootlegging a 3D polarized movie must have been a huge selling point for the movie execs.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope 'hometree' is Avatar's attempt at inventing hipster slang.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
All I can is, when they all lined up on stage, Ms Weaver was tallest. Then we watched a film.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 10 December 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Ms Weaver is so awesomei mean, generally, obv
― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 December 2009 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
lol embargo
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/avatar-film-review-1004052868.story
― caek, Friday, 11 December 2009 07:51 (fourteen years ago) link
161 minutes...
― Simon H., Friday, 11 December 2009 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
It's every fairy tale about flying dragons, magic plants, weirdly hypnotic creepy-crawlies and feral dogs rolled up into a rain forest with a highly advanced spiritual design.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 11 December 2009 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Should be on the poster, that.
Ned, is there an IMAX in Irvine?
― caek, Friday, 11 December 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
How long until we have AI-CGI, generative movies that essentially make themselves? That seems to be where we're heading.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 December 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
but who would be there to tell the computer that the characters need boobs, and if they already have them, they should be bigger?
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 December 2009 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
are the trade papers powerful enough to where the studios won't enforce an embargo on them? Variety
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Friday, 11 December 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
we already have that; it's called world of warcraft xxp
― 囧 (dyao), Friday, 11 December 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i totally saw this already but i'm a class act and won't break the embargo even after it's released.
― Smokey and the S'Banned It (history mayne), Friday, 11 December 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't realize so many ILXors are film critics!
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 December 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Read a film thread and see.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Friday, 11 December 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Yup, down at the Spectrum.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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