_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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

WANT

love that 100+ years later, the state of the art is still just a variation on the U R THERE thrills of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY

Hahaha I mentioned that movie when I was explaining Avatar to my Dad tonight

EVRBODY RUN THE FKIN TRAINS COMIN OUTTTA THE SCSREEEEEN!!!!!

I didn't see the setup for this when I saw it on TV, and as I result I TRIPPED BALLS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchPvBBSLKM

lol u thought terry was up in avatar

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

me too! only lived in DC for abt 4 years as a kid, but i saw "to fly" as many times as i possibly could over that period. remember getting a weird intimation of age the first time my stomach didn't flip on the big drops.

Philly IMAX had a scene where you bungee jumped off a skyscraper; was awesome

speaking of pretty films with shitty stories, is this better looking than that final fantasy movie? cause that's kinda like my baseline reference point for what I will tolerate to see some awesome cgi boobs

A-MAZING!

lindy west @ the stranger, who's an dependably bullshit-free appreciator of cheap pop trash, loved the blue furry dogshit out it. which may or may not be worth a ten-penny damn, but i'm encouraged.

My boy went straight to bed when he got home last night but he said it was the greatest film ever on the way thru. This applies to 12 year-old boys only, obv.

James who? You remember -- unassuming chap, made a modest flick about the Titanic 12 years ago. His new movie, Avatar, is a computer-generated 3-D science-fiction eco-tract which arrives with marginally more fanfare than Christmas. It's also the first veiled critique of the West's foreign policy to cost almost as much as the US defence budget. (Plus you get Leona Lewis singing over the end credits. At least I think she was singing. The possibility remains that she caught her foot in the car door and the composer James Horner merely set her distress to music.)

It's also the first veiled critique of the West's foreign policy to cost almost as much as the US defence budget.

Ha! But to tell you the truth, after months of hating I'm actually looking forward to this. I can't remember the last "event" movie that felt like an actual event. I suppose "Lord of the Rings?"

W this amt of controlled publicity Waterworld would've worked. Dunno if that's good or bad, tho.

Fern Gully meets Warhammer 40k.

but was it any good?

Watchmen seemed like the last big film with a ton of publicity that made up for the fact that noone knew the comic, the actors and it was a 3 hour long piece of bullshit... oh.

Doesn't matter anymore man, it's Chinatown