also, wtf @ "get it done" five times from every retard character
SUBTLE CULTURAL COMMENTARY!
― kelis navidad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
giovanni ribisi's charachter should have been played by paul giamatti reiser
― abanana, Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lj in displaying arbitrary preference for "vintage" hokum shocker
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno about the razor sharp scripting. avatar is very very broad, but it's impeccably lean. people over 10 might like more nuance, but there's really no waste at all in the script. pretty impressive imo.
the only real dire moment was the bride of kong stuff.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
and hell, i'll stan for star wars but there's just no question that for today's seven year old this is going to be mindblowing, fandom-defining stuff. eh, maybe you gotta see it in 3D.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
if it makes sense, i think in trying to be very plain about things, it produces quite a lot of dialogue that is worthy of eye-rolling. it likes a cliche, and it likes a Big Statement. other problems come from things being skipped over, or geared exclusively towards massive and unrealistic events. insane moves. jurassic park feels way more organic, if that makes sense.
ooh zing! 2D is perfectly enough for me cheers :P
(i mean, my problems with the movie wouldn't have been helped by 3D!)
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
jurassic park is also not very po-faced and has jeff goldblum as its voice of reason, not preachy earth-mother na'vi types, sorry 2 b grinch who stole xmas
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
complaining about the dialogue in this movie is like complaining about the melody in james brown
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
2D is perfectly enough for me cheers
okay but this is like saying "i saw the jazz singer without sound and it was eh"
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i think that particular false dichotomy was discussed upthread.
i was dazzled by this film visually and am confident i would have been yet more dazzled in 3D but i don't think extra dazzlement would have rectified my misgivings. a movie is more than a picture. it's also a narrative
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Obviously the narrative was a bit of an afterthought and not exceptional in any way, but I imagine that you knew that going in, so why not let the movie play to its strengths? For the same reason I don't want to go to IMAX to watch a really great narrative film that was shot on Handicam, you know?
― real bears playing hockey (polyphonic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
because i was watching it with a friend having met him in a very impromptu style, and the only convenient screening was at the tottenham court road which didn't have 3D capability
then 2 days later the rest of my family saw it in 3D x_x
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I gotta bad feeling about this
― =皿= (dyao), Saturday, 26 December 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
use the force, luke
"You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done."
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
there's nerd shit and there's dork shit.
white people drive like this, but black people drive like this.
― real bears playing hockey (polyphonic), Saturday, 26 December 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
You want it to be one way, but it's the other way.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
there's things i like, and things i don't like
― reagan & sarah (s1ocki), Saturday, 26 December 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
you say po-tay-toe
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
giovanni ribisi's charachter should have been played by paul giamatti
― kelis navidad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, December 26, 2009 4:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
It's the type of character that would normally be played by Paul Giamatti but Ribisi plays it like he's playing Jeremy Piven in Entourage.
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Paul Reiser of all people did a much more believable smarmy corporate type in Aliens. Way more insidious.
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Shit like that and all the cool space military hardware and critters made me wish I was watching an Aliens 3D movie.
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually Cameron should have made this an Alien sequel where a space marine falls in love with one of the Aliens
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Last time, it was Resurrection. This time, it's a Love Connection!
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL!
― dragon movies (rrrobyn), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
aliens vs eharmony
― dragon movies (rrrobyn), Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
likes: dismembering, parasitic colonization of the universe, literally scaring the shit out of you hehedislikes: flamethrowers, swearing, being hungry - i get crazy, for real lol! ;)
― dragon movies (rrrobyn), Sunday, 27 December 2009 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
how about that commercial where the guy bought a shitty lg phone so he can project the avatar trailer on the wall for his coworkers
― shartin jort (am0n), Sunday, 27 December 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
what about this coke zero ad where GIROGIO FUCKING MORODER is watching from the wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APQ2OxgCNzE
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
very interesting piece about an earlier version of the movie's story:
http://chud.com/articles/articles/21969/1/PROJECT-880-THE-AVATAR-THAT-ALMOST-WAS/Page1.html
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah I feel Cameron played it safe w much if not all of the final movie, probably because you only get one shot at animating those scenes... you can't really shoot and reshoot scenes in the normal sense
― =皿= (dyao), Sunday, 27 December 2009 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
plot q: was it the upsidaisium that kept the mountains floating?
― abanana, Sunday, 27 December 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw it at Leicester Square in 3d last night.
I'm not sure it's a good film, but the overall experience was very pleasant - something like a weekend abroad, with new sights to stimulate and refresh the visual cortex.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 27 December 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
>probably because you only get one shot at animating those scenes...
I don't know about that - unless Cameron works with CGI very differently than other (big budget action film) directors then he's got almost infinite control over the shots before they go through the final rendering process.
(I didn't read the whole of l'bloomer's link so may be missing the point here, though)
― Bill A, Sunday, 27 December 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I was reading that with the camera/tech/whatever he's got, he could film the actors in the empty space and through the viewfinder see an xbox-quality rendering of the fx of whatever he was pointing at.
boy that wasn't explained well at all.
― moron oil (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 December 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
no, no. made perfect sense and it's true.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 27 December 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i have purchased my ticket for an 11 pm 3d/imax avatarification. big blue people better bring it.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 December 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
some of the stuff in that article def does seem like it would have made for a better movie. but a lot of it, you can tell why it was changed.
― reagan & sarah (s1ocki), Sunday, 27 December 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
avatar 2: tsu'tey tang
― cozwn, Sunday, 27 December 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
estimated 2nd weekend gross: $75M, down from $77M. usually blockbusters will almost halve their box office in the second week. in comparison titanic made more on its second week than its first (largely because it opened on the same day as a bond movie).
it will definitely make its money back.
― abanana, Sunday, 27 December 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i now cannot escape papyrus.
― straightola, Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
do you think cameron will point at the audience and say "i see you" during his acceptance speech?
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
followed swiftly by him raising his oscar and ululating
― hear shart attack (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
well, that wasn't bad ... but it did ultimately make me feel guilty for spending $13.50 on an imax movie instead of, like, trekking in patagonia or the amazon or something. or hell, even being outside.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 28 December 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess i was really feeling the ecomessages maaaaaaan
dud my imax ticket cost $17.50
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
chew on that 4 a min
Is it only when people are at death's door that the Na'vi all have to sit around the tree and spin and hold each others' shoulders and chant? If you had to do that every time someone got, say, a major injury, that would be a real pain in the ass.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Monday, 28 December 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link