_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

My boy is gonna see this tonight, I will query him on his return

Avatar (American Pie Unrated Edition)

"This one time, on Pandora..."

you need both.

The End

s1ocki OTM

this is reminding me that I never had my "pretty looking movies with terrible stories" film festival (centered around "Sky Captain" and "The Spirit")

yeah basically what tuoma said movies achieve their potency through crazy technology - tho it often takes a narrative to activate their power movies are not people sitting around a campfire telling each other stories - so while pedantic message bord posters and non tv owners everywhere can be all im interested in believable characterization movies are using science to fuck w/their tiny minds

Wait, did you actually see The Spirit, Dan?

ice cr?m droppin cgi

this is reminding me that I never had my "pretty looking movies with terrible stories" film festival (centered around "Sky Captain" and "The Spirit")

― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

WTF was pretty about THE SPIRIT

WTF was pretty about THE SPIRIT

Knowing Dan I think the answer will have something to do with airbrushed cleavage.

maybe i'm just blinded by how spectacularly shitty that movie was

I really like look of plastic all-CGI movies that look more like cartoons with people walking through them than actual movies.

i think i would rather see avatar before i see the spirit
sky captain is in my netflix queue at like 179.
these days, when i want to watch escapist power trip eye candy, i just play video games

intrigued by all the 'next-level fx wau' talk. previews look a bit meh cgi-wise, save that shot of the heli-things blowing the shit out of that floating island.

Of course if Avatar truly had a terrible script, that might distract from watching the pretty visuals. But I think Cameron is competent enough as a filmmaker that he can make this sort of clichéd story run smoothly enough not to distract from getting sucked into the world of the movie.

Take Titanic, for example: of course the script in it is kinda clichéd, but it's the sort of clichéd script that works well enough that when bad things start to happen, you still care about the characters, even they're not particularly original as characters.

Titanic is kind of unwatchable last time i checked in on it.

Also tits

Okay, if you think Titanic is unwatchable, then you probably shouldn't see Avatar. I thought it did what it set out to do very well: it's not a particularly original movie, but it's a great spectacle.

I don't think I've ever sat through more than 15 minutes of Titanic. excruciating.

Of course if Avatar truly had a terrible script, that might distract from watching the pretty visuals. But I think Cameron is competent enough as a filmmaker that he can make this sort of clichéd story run smoothly enough not to distract from getting sucked into the world of the movie.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

also as far as a purely visual experience the imax theater at the boston museum of science had a trailer that theyd show before every movie when i was a kid that had a helicopter shot flying over the city that was always so much better than anything in whatever animal/space doc they were screening - you were flying over beacon hill and then the camera tilts forward and u feel like youre gonna fall out yr seat - amazing

I called Titanic a Diet Coke movie in that I spent 3.5 hours watching it totally enthralled and left the movie theater raving about how great it was, but as I remembered scenes they became more and more irritating until, within an hour and a half, I pretty much hated the entire thing. It's almost as if the movie was designed to be watched but not remembered.

the whole sinking sequence is pretty rad imo

and by that i mean the feeling u get when u realize u just praised titanic in print

haha

hahaha

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/threadcount/cameron.jpg

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS!"

Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Lee Daniels, Peter Jackson, Jason Reitman, and Quentin Tarantino sit down together

Tarantino: The only time I ever had a situation like that -- and it worked out fantastic -- was on "Kill Bill" because we were trying to do some action sequences that really had never been done before. I was trying to do them Hong Kong-style, not the American style of shooting, and -- these guys can tell you -- to do some of the best action you're ever going to see, it takes time. It just takes time. You need to be there. It takes days. And you don't know you're done until you're done. You can try and put it on a schedule, but if you ain't done you ain't fucking done! If it's not getting you off, it ain't done, so that means it just takes time. You can make up time with story points but on the action it's going to take it's own rhythm.

Cameron: Don't get worked up about it. I've been wrong by more than that entire budget. (Laughs.)

Reitman: That's the line of the morning.

at least one of those things is not like the others...

THR: The director Renoir made a lot of films and then stopped to write novels. Is there anything you'd consider doing instead of directing?

Tarantino: I intend to quit at 60. And I'm going to do exactly what he did. I'm going to write novels and cinema literature, stuff like that.

Bigelow: You have a plan?

Daniels: And he's very serious about it.

Tarantino: Well, she brought up exactly what I plan to do.

Cameron: I want to die directing. But I took my hiatus already because I figured I can still be directing when I'm 80 but I can't be doing the deep ocean expeditions, riding around in a zodiac on a 20-foot sea when I'm 80, I'll break my neck.

Tarantino: I would add more to that. If it actually gets to the place where you can't show 35mm film in theaters any more and everything is digital projection, I won't even make it to 60.

Cameron: Oh. Nobody's told you? (Reaches out hand.)

lols

Hahahah. I can sense Morbs not knowing who to back there.

Cameron: I'd like to answer his question for him.

responses very much in character

hahaha

tbh i find reitman more annoying than cameron

sky captain is in my netflix queue at like 179.

No, bump it up, it's a trip. If only to hear Angelina Jolie wearing an eyepatch say "Alert the amphibious squadron!"

yeah skipped over the multi-paragraph conversation the two of them had about "instinct" thx guys

xp

rather have digital smurfs rape my retina than sit through juno again that's for sure

also lol @ tarantino having like perfect memory of the abyss

knowing the exact differences btw the LASERDISC and the THEATRICAL versions of the abyss

what a NERD

tbh i find reitman more annoying than cameron

Everything Reitman said made me me want him to stfu, way more annoying than Cameron.

yeah really

watching that vid i thought tarantino was going to accidentally nail bigelow in the face with one of his cocaine hand shapes

also as far as a purely visual experience the imax theater at the boston museum of science had a trailer that theyd show before every movie when i was a kid that had a helicopter shot flying over the city that was always so much better than anything in whatever animal/space doc they were screening - you were flying over beacon hill and then the camera tilts forward and u feel like youre gonna fall out yr seat - amazing

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:11 PM

the imax @ dc air and space museum has a movie thats pretty much that all the way through. saw it so many times

http://www.nasm.si.edu/visit/theaters/shows.cfm#tofly

Watch the Earth drop away beneath you on an 1800s balloon ascent; rocket across the Arizona skies with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels; soar on a hang glider off the coast of Hawaii; and blast off into space on a Saturn rocket.

haven't seen the vid but the interview reads like Reitman is young and intimidated. Almost as though he's the youngest dude in the room.

reitman is a fucking terrible douche and tarantino as gasbag hasbeen.

cameron is a funny guy tho, even though he hasn't done a decent movie in twenty years. i sort of warm to anyone who wears a HMFIC baseball cap.

whatevs i heard him on the radio last week and was like stfu stfu
made me not want to see 'up in the air', though people seem to like it... that said, to quote cameron:
"I'd just as soon not meet people and talk about the movie. And I don't mean that in some disdainful way, it's just the movie should be the movie."

that was an xpost, my 'whatevs'

also as far as a purely visual experience the imax theater at the boston museum of science had a trailer that theyd show before every movie when i was a kid that had a helicopter shot flying over the city that was always so much better than anything in whatever animal/space doc they were screening - you were flying over beacon hill and then the camera tilts forward and u feel like youre gonna fall out yr seat - amazing

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:11 PM

the imax @ dc air and space museum has a movie thats pretty much that all the way through. saw it so many times

http://www.nasm.si.edu/visit/theaters/shows.cfm#tofly

Watch the Earth drop away beneath you on an 1800s balloon ascent; rocket across the Arizona skies with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels; soar on a hang glider off the coast of Hawaii; and blast off into space on a Saturn rocket.

― shartin jort (am0n), Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:38 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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