_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

i'm kind of glad 3D doesn't work for me. the only scene it worked in was when there was some ash falling after a battle, and i found it extremely jarring and distrcting. my gf loved the 3D, though.

titanic was a boat

― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 6:35 PM

a pred boat?

does the 3D have a different effect than the 3D Imax? (it really shouldn't i'd imagine) wasn't really distracted by the 3D...

They should glue, like, four Imax screens together and make a Super Imax screen, then charge $100 a ticket. That would be very awesome, or, barring that, at least very big.

otm it would be huge

this was the first 'narrative' film i've seen in IMAX, and the first time i've been to an IMAX in basically a decade, i'd forgotten how lol hueg they are

(i don't get the predator boats/ships jokes. it seems to be a zing directed at a certain kind of hater?)

http://boards.ign.com/Sci-Fi___Fantasy_Flicks/b5083/47582986/p3

it's a long running nerd debate as to whether or not the ship in alien was a predator ship

referred to at LONG LENGTH in an ilx thread i'm too lazy to find

so iow yes

the Most hilarious fanboy message board debate of all time

woah that was a long time ago.

(was it a pred boat, in the end?)

^ For your sake and the sake of the people you are exposed to every day, I hope that post was a joke, because if it wasn't, the astonishing ignorance of that post says something really scary about you.

And if it was a joke, it wasn't funny, not even accidentally.

Now, pay attention, and tell me if you can understand this (I'll use smaller words if you need me to) -- there was no such thing as "Predator" back in 1979 when Ridley Scott made ALIEN. So, no, it is not a Predator ship.

LeBrainBoy, ladies and gentlemen.

But what if the Predators had time travel abilities? Ever think about that!?

every single day of my life

I would call the sequel "Time Predators."

"This time ... they're hunting through time!"

tbh predators taking on t-rexes would be pretty fun

charlamagne vs predator

ghenghis khan vs predator vs beethoven vs freud vs joan of arc vs napolean vs socrates

san dimas high school football rules

no bill and ted = no credibility

i don't want them to get hurt

WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT

ghenghis khan vs predator vs beethoven vs freud vs joan of arc vs napolean vs socrates

My first thought was Beethoven the movie dog.

haha well certainly he's invited if he wants to join the carnage

My friend (a chef who works nights and has days off) posted on FB that all daytime showings of Avatar 3D IMAX in his area are sold out until next Tuesday... yes 5 days sold out in advance.

ya but even u admit he's a chef

his post was illustrating his frustration about going to the theater today and not being able to get tix to the film even outside of peak hours on not just on a random weekday (which is usually not a problem for people who work nights)... but at a 5 day leadtime! my point in posting that is to suggest that the film may be gaining box office momentum which is pretty frightening.

Yeah I want to see it at Imax but I'm waiting until there's actually empty seats in the theater. Sheesh.

Too good to sit in a stranger's lap, are you?

BTW it's now the 2nd highest grossing film of all time. And it's only been out for 20 days. Jesus.

xpost - I prefer to provide the lap, thank you very much.

best get there early then

I am not going to see this film.

The only Sam Worthington you ever need to see in your life btw was his performance in a rubbish Australian reimagating of Macbeth. Specifically his whispery delivery of "is that a dagger I see before me...(lengthy pause)...or a dagger of the mind?"

IMAX show I went to was hell of sold out, on the way out i saw them turning away actual dozens of ppl

I had to sit on the far left/up front for my IMAX viewing :|

I like that my local imax theater has assigned seating, I was able to actually pick my seats when buying tickets

still feel no desire to see this, but the figures are beginning to wear me down tbh

I've been worn down, finally going to see this next weekend. We had to buy our tickets for the IMAX a week in advance.

the sweet spot in my local IMAX (ie centre area of the back three rows) is the only assigned seating bit, and has been sold out for every showing since this opened. I've finally got tickets for next Wednesday. When we were in the same cinema to see another film last Saturday at 2.00pm all Avatar showings in IMAX and other screens were already sold out - I know there's some discussion upthread about how this "couldn't fail" with the marketing $$$ behind it, but it does seem like word of mouth after the opening week has given this huge momentum as well.

I figure this is still gonna play to packed IMAX theatres for probably a couple more months, long after it's stopped playing at regular theatres

To quote Crow T. Robot from a while back: "It's even better with the 3-D glasses on -- I feel like I'm really here!"

sign of the apocalypse?

Kenneth Turan, thefairly negative film crit for the LA Times who infamously panned Titanic not just once but several tims and repeatedly drew the ire of Cameron, actually LIKED this!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/12/avatar-restores-a-sense-of-wonder-to-the-moviegoing-experience.html

david brooks did not like the jar jar binksness
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html?th&emc=th
he forgets to point out how cameron colonializes yes album covers too

rollin' my eyes at that URL xp

+my god, mark - your username... ARG - MY BRANE!