funny make me grin like idiot
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
grin like BEAR
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
it was a tough opp to pass up
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
too tough
Huh.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
I hope it's a "flight simulator" type ride and not a "fornicate with your horse via your tail simulator" type ride
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
That ever elusive next level.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
fornicate-with-your-horse-via-your-tail simulator, in case that was unclear, although I guess a tail simulator would be a by-product of any such ride anyway
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
bleh.
― am0n, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
So, when does this movie come out?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Supposed to be a big deal, right?
3-D or something?
amon: that Airbender ride has since been rebranded to Snoopy: Surf Dog.
― smelly's wife (rustic italian flatbread), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
I am fairly certain "I wanna bone blue chicks" is going to be a central theme to this movie.
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Tuesday, December 8, 2009 3:12 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I would like to point out that I was OTM on this thread
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, there was just one blue chick, and it was LOVE.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
Whatever it is, get ready to smell it:
“I definitely want to do a flight attraction of some kind,” the director said, citing the “Soarin’ Over California” flying ride at Disney’s California Adventure Park in Anaheim as a personal favorite. “Flying is a big part of the movie. One of the things people liked the most at test screenings was going up into the floating mountains in the flying sequences. We may have banshees, Leonopteryxes, maybe some other flying creatures that don’t make their appearance until the second and third films.”Disney’s Imagineers will also be tasked with bringing Na’vi culture and the natural world of Pandora to life, along with creating “a general sense of the future,” Cameron said.“It all needs to be one fabric,” he said. “As long as it’s thematically consistent, as long as it looks and feels and smells the way you imagine it, then we’ve succeeded.”
Disney’s Imagineers will also be tasked with bringing Na’vi culture and the natural world of Pandora to life, along with creating “a general sense of the future,” Cameron said.
“It all needs to be one fabric,” he said. “As long as it’s thematically consistent, as long as it looks and feels and smells the way you imagine it, then we’ve succeeded.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
desperately restating plz plz plz DO NOT INCLUDE SPACE HORSE FUCKING IN THIS SMELLONANZA
― the tax avocado (DJP), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Bonin' Over Pandora"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
if this asinine bullshit comes anywhere near anaheim i swear to god
― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
We may have banshees, Leonopteryxes
no one knows what the fuck these things are because no one gives a fuck about avatar beyond "blue cat people boning"
― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
man i can't wait to see if they make an animatronic version of...oh that's right the characters are all boring cliches whose names no one remembers
― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
was discussing this w/ friends today, but I'm kind of bothered at what I perceive as the hypocritical posturing of cinemagoing laypersons against Avatar. Like they don't just dislike it, they wear it as a badge of honor, to demonstrate that they are 'above' such material.
I wouldn't attach such a label to the posters here, because hell you all know way more about movies than I do, but I mean I get kind of sick of arguing with friends in public who just got back from some equally vacuous second-tier tearjerker drama Oscar-bait that happens to pull all the right strings that somehow believe that these pieces are inherently superior to Avatar.
I mean Avatar's plot was threadbare, pedestrian, and didn't have any subtext at ALL, but it was at least functional and didn't get in the way of the visuals (much like a mediocre rapper could have a hit song if he has a killer beat and 'doesn't get in the way' of it). Many of the people who slagged Avatar were fans of "The Town" which had a plot that was equally cookie cutter, no?
idk...I mean doesn't even Morbs like this movie? I loved it and still do.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I mean Avatar's plot was threadbare, pedestrian, and didn't have any subtext at ALL,
You're pretty liberal with your "love." So you can actually sit through this at home?
Many of the people who slagged Avatar were fans of "The Town" which had a plot that was equally cookie cutter, no?
Why would you or anyone equate some massive monocultural event with some random Boston heist movie? I've never heard these brought up in the same sentence. In fact, I've never heard anyone bring up "The Town," ever. In any context.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
so you don't know people then?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
ie the point was movies with equally generic plot points often get free passes whereas Avatar gets shit on because it's not The Battle of Algiers with blue people
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
I just never thought of the two films being remotely comparable, but I get it. Anyway, I think the reason people might hypothetically like "The Town" more than "Avatar," despite the former's boilerplate tendencies, is that it has good acting and writing going for it (right?). But "Avatar," minus such apparent disposables as plot and subtext, doesn't have acting to fall back on, and does in fact have 10 foot tall blue people running around.
But really, you've seen "Avatar" multiple times, and I assume in 2-D at home as well? And it holds up for you? Genuinely curious, because I can't imagine sitting through it ever again, whether I liked it or not. Same with "Titanic." Like, pretty sure it would shrink in my estimation.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
I actually haven't seen it multiple times, no. just the one theatre sitting.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really think that is fair though as a comparison point though because up until three months ago, my home entertainment system was a piece of shit 5 year old TV and the built-in speakers that came with it.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
So you've only seen it once, years ago, and you can honestly say you love "Avatar?"
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
See it again and get back to us.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't realize love for films was based on the number of times you saw the movie?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
pls let me know how many more times I need to watch k thx
still never saw this, do not wear that as a badge of honor, just don't give a fuck either way
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
can respect dat
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand why people didn't have the uncanny valley problem with this movie.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
i love some movies that i've only seen once, but i would definitely watch them again is the difference
― less of the same (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Too busy hating cigar-chomping, racist, marine figurehead as he yells "Die! Die!" while shooting poor natives.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i don't full-on love avatar, but i like it a lot. saw it twice in the theater, and have seen it once on big-screen blu-ray since. by the third time through, it was starting to wear a little thin (and long), and absent the 3D, the wow factor drops a bit, but i still enjoyed it and would/will watch it again. and rewatchability isn't the ultimate cinematic virtue anyway. i probably won't watch tarkovsky's solaris too many times in my life, but that takes nothing away from the fact that i love it. anyway, the performances of both leads were quite good, and i loved the "10 foot tall blue people". it's a science fiction movie, and i'm a science fiction fan. giant blue cat people are an unambiguous plus.
i agree that the plot is routine, but cameron's sense of how to construct a narrative is still impeccable. avatar builds effectively, compresses and expands just where it needs to, and pulls of its emotional effects with masterful aplomb. i found both the love story and the popular uprising quite moving. though troublesome with regard to its use of the very tired "white savior" trope, i was also very impressed by the film's political message and commitment. few popular action-adventure movies deal so directly and bravely with contemporary political reality. finally, i think it did a great job of metaphorically telling the awful story of western imperial conquest. that it gave that story a happy ending, that did nothing to blunt its communication of the tragic truth. cameron's poignant fantasy only drives home the differences between the world he imagines and our own. we know that, in real life, countless indigenous peoples annihilated in the process. as a result, i found it a very bittersweet film.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
I've been thinking about this movie recently, in regards to its huge success versus John Carter's abysmal failure (box office wise). They both have silly names dotted throughout and CGI alien people on alien worlds, and maybe the jungle paradise of Pandora with its fluorescent floating jellyfish is more appealing, but I would have thought the corny mother-Gaia vibes would have turned a lot of people off. My only real guess is that people say "James Cameron!" and then see Mech Warriors and are like "oh shit, bad ass".
I didn't care for Avatar when I saw in the cinema. I liked some of the visuals and the action scenes more when I saw it in 2D at home, but all the other bits were even worse.
The Town is a sub-Heat crime drama with a terrible ending, but I know a number of 'plebs' who rate it as one of the best movies in recent years because it's about as 'serious drama' as they'll likely see. Also, Renner's Cagney > Everything in Avatar tbh.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i was surprised that "john carter" wasn't sold as an avatar type sci-fi romance. the two films are similar in many respects, and avatar did quite well at the box office.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
it was actually; when disney started full on freaking out, the ad campaign was "See the story that inspired STAR WARS and AVATAR"
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
and then people saw the title John Carter and thought it was a biopic about a controversial school administrator from the 80s
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
as opposed to when people saw the title Avatar, and thought it was about lj icons.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
it kinda was
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
"They blew up the Hometree!"
Mood: SAD
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that's generally the case when sad things happen in films
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
(whoosh!)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
No badge to this, people can watch what they like and however many times they feel the need to get they want from it. I didn't get around bcz I usually have 10 films (old or new) I want to see every month and I only get round to about 3-4.
This is being premiered on UK TV tomorrow. Alas, I am instead attending a screening of a doc about an Iraqi Women's basketball team at the Human Rights festival.
But I'll have to check up on how indigeneous people were brutally destroyed by imperialist aggressors sometime. I'll get a bk out of the library or something.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
it's a family-friendly adventure film, ffs. just hitting the basics of something like that is impressive enough.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
jeez, just reread my defense from two hours back. so so so many dropped words and shitty constructions. yikes. not doing myself any favors there. and i think i used the word "very" like five times.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link