_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

and then mail everyone special glasses so that the posts are in the foreground with the ashes of dead hometree

thinkin about seeing this again in a dolby 3d theater - biggest problem about IMAX 3d is that the brightness level sucked cause of the polarization. apparently dolby 3d doesn't have this problem.

Just got out of a IMAX 3D theater a couple hours ago. It wasn't nearly as bad as I feared from the trailer and previous experiences with green-screen/cgi hybrid films. The plot is not terribly original, as everyone knows, but there was no egregiously bad dialog, and the design work and facial motion-capture was amazingly good throughout. I consider it $13.50 very well spent.

just saw this, my sci-fi nerd dad was all excited and had to take me and my brother. maybe it was just my lowered expectations, but it was pretty nice! the dialogue/plotting was more competent than i'd prepared myself for, some cool beasties. basically surpassed my expectation that it would be like a slightly better looking Phantom Menace. (xpost haha)

haha ya it's definitely NOT the phantom menace.

oh this might actually be a good Dad movie for the holidays, huh

my dad definitely called for my $.02 about it

dad just called to say he loved it and now he needs to drive 1.5 hours to see it in 3d

tell him to take off the glasses first

dude he doesnt want to drive all the way to burlington in 2d thats so last paradigm - if u want to maintian yr critical relevancey youre really gonna have to keep up - jeez

i didnt realize avatar had pushed the envelope that far - apologies

smh

i dont drive dude how was i supposed to know

Nobody drives anymore now that we all have our own personal dragon bug things.

posting to this thread via ponytail btw

fuck I'm connected too via ponytail; how come I can't feel you

pause

i see u man

WEDNESDAY BOX OFFICE
1. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel $18,801,277
2. Avatar $16,445,291

psyched for avatar the squeakquel

the sequoial

lol

i guess itd be more of a treequel tbh

haha yeah

that's not true about alvin & the chipmunks is it??!!!

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

it's not gonna happen but if the chipmunks squeakel outgrossed Avatar that would be some all-time lols

23/12 was Alvin 2's opening day, whereas Avatar has been out for a week, but still... Didn't have to sign an NDA for Alvin, funnily enough.

Avatar's opening weekend wasn't all that amazing, was it?

it was good but not great and needs to continue to perform to be a lol hueg blockbuster - people seem to like it so i could see that happening i guess

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2632&p=.htm

"dude he doesnt want to drive all the way to burlington in 2d thats so last paradigm"
he's gonna love the way it looks

okay, so i liked this. grade A+++ hokum imo. kicks all kinds of jurassic park's ass.

chipmunks is doing well because school is out and aside from Princess and the Frog, which as been out for almost a month, it's the only kid's movie in theaters for some reason (christmas carol I guess, which also stupidly opened ages ago)

cameons films all start out slow at the box office I think

chipmunks is doing well because it is going to change the face of cinema

"We're going to take the same 3D technology James Cameron used in AVATAR and stick it up Jason Lee's butt."

Somewhere I read (and maybe you did too) is that studios are now going to try re-releasing 3-D Raiders, etc., etc., etc.

there's nerd shit and there's dork shit.

like raiders of the lost ark and ghostbusters are cool nerd shit, but like babylon 5 and dressing up like sailor moon are like lame dork shit.

Avatar was like a lame dork sandwich of furry-phile "anthropomorphic art" mixed with Ferngully.

it was really pretty tho and some of the animals were cool, peace out

dialogue was like something on an EPCOT ride come on now

this movie was retarded as hell, beyond belief actually

it also looked fucking amazing - kind of unbelievable

hell = retarded >>>> belief

avatarded

giovanni ribisi's charachter should have been played by paul giamatti

how much does this movie have to make to not be a flop btw? can it lose 200m and still be a... success doesn't seem like the right word but success?

love all the magazine articles about the "hidden messages" in avatar, aka the ones it was hitting you over the head with for 3 hours.

also, wtf @ "get it done" five times from every retard character

SUBTLE CULTURAL COMMENTARY!

giovanni ribisi's charachter should have been played by paul giamatti reiser

okay, so i liked this. grade A+++ hokum imo. kicks all kinds of jurassic park's ass.

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 02:27 (15 hours ago) Bookmark

no

lj in displaying arbitrary preference for "vintage" hokum shocker

arbitrary preference for film that semi-defined my childhood of movie fandom, a film that has razor-sharp scripting, great characterisation and genuinely gripping action sequences, a film that is full of bits I can remember despite not having seen it for about 10 years (maybe exaggerated) and a film that feels like a film rather than a presentation

and hey I LIKED avatar! i mean your post is OTM until you mention jurassic park