_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Cameron's going to spend twenty more years making a film just to win you over and he's going to call it "2 THE MAX"

2 the max in imax this fall

tbf this is a year where 2012 got some critical props

you max, me blue box office killing alien

gotta admit, after seeing Nine I'm a little more invested in seeing that fail miserably

Guido guido guido!

starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as MAX; the common man who could take no more

a friend saw yesterday and said it is easily the worst film of the decade, fwiw

gawker apologia is so pathetic ("all that stuff you thought was gonna suck about it is um in there, but its AWESOME TRUST US!" = yeah, whatever)

unfortunately the hype for this has been so carefully and exquisitely managed no way is this going to bomb

These are the schmucks who spoiled the Top Chef finale, so I hope the whole gawker office has an orgy with Joe Lieberman and they all die from some slow painful std.

oh armond

i am seeing this tonight - worried

do you have a phone you can liveblog from?

John Justen and Fluffy Bear will watch it.

a friend saw yesterday and said it is easily the worst film of the decade, fwiw

― akm, Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

no way this is worse than transformers 2

you'd pray, but turning megan fox into a cgi smurf seems a step further into the dark side and I can imagine missing Bay's crudity (when not in its presence).

ok so this was way way better than expected

pro tip: see in 3d, see in imax or similar

i should clarify, the value of this film is not in the script, but yer eyes will prob fall out of your head a few times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCpYgd338U

lol

wanna say anything more about it? was the dialogue not as stiff as expected? the reverse colonialism cliche plot not as cliche as initially assumed? the furry porn not as blatent as the hype makes it seem? or does it just look really cool and thats enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBjKubN6zhU

if the film works at least on a laserium level (which everybody's saying it does) then I kind of want it to do better than the star wars prequels, even if i can't muster much enthusiasm to see it myself

wait why would anyone see this *not* in 3D? that shouldn't even be an option. glasses go on at start and stay on until a quarter through credits.

-------wait why would anyone see this

there you go!

very uninterested in a film that's sole virtue is that it "looks pretty"

that's nice

dude its so far beyond "looks pretty" its srsly a fucking quantum leap in CGI and 3d. tbh they should never have shown previews, because they look like crap but the real thing is just O_O

totally do not give a shit about technological advances, remember how "awesome" the Star Wars prequels or the Matrix or whatever were advertised as and those films suck because they have no ideas. I like ideas and acting and dialogue and content and stuff like that. call me crazy!

and also the script is prob on par with or better than your usual BIG ACTION MOVIE, which is still to say not a good script, but it has only a few howlingly bad moments, which compared to most of the blockbuster shit shoveled out there is pretty good.

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dont know that crazy is what id call you

its srsly a fucking quantum leap in CGI and 3d

I'm all fine with this being the ultimate demo reel for Weta, since they're going to be working with Guillermo del Toro for The Hobbit -- and Smaug will be spectacular.

yeah, think i'm just going to wait till a film takes the new technology and actually does something good with it.

good storytelling >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> technical innovation.

if we were still in b&w but making films as good as the third man, i wouldn't give a toss about how i'd have to use my own imagination to imagine smurf porn.

whole lot of morbsin' going on in this thread

yeah, think i'm just going to wait till a film takes the new technology and actually does something good with it.

hmm, yes, like the _the hobbit_, that's obviously not going to suck.

(tbf I guess the Matrix has ideas, just a lot of stolen ones badly smashed together)

Ha, I meant in like 10 years time when I can finally afford a blu ray player.

because they have no ideas

they clearly have fucking ideas, just not particularly interesting ones.

lotta first year film studenting going on in this thread morelike

ya srsly let yr mindspace percolate fools, movies is not just one thing

hmm, yes, like the _the hobbit_, that's obviously not going to suck

Haha. Was gonna say - ppl hatin on this are sitting on their thumbs waiting for THE HOBBIT??

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hee hee hee

james cameron has really soldout since his dogme start

i am surprised to not hear more comparisons with district 9 in the reviews i've been reading - both are about evil corporations mistreating aliens and the unlikely humans who go native and basically turn into aliens themselves, then turn against their former corporate masters

and both feature dudes in robo-suits

I have no problem seeing this movie for its visuals. Of course it would be great if it had a good script too, but a not-so-crappy script is fine by me, if it looks cool enough to make me forget the flaws in it. Movies are an visual medium, "good storytelling" is only half of the equation. None of the classic movies are classic only because of their story.

district 9, no boobs

robo-suits are likely to paper over a certain amount of bad script tbh