_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Hahaha I mentioned that movie when I was explaining Avatar to my Dad tonight

EVRBODY RUN THE FKIN TRAINS COMIN OUTTTA THE SCSREEEEEN!!!!!

I didn't see the setup for this when I saw it on TV, and as I result I TRIPPED BALLS

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

lol u thought terry was up in avatar

the imax @ dc air and space museum has a movie thats pretty much that all the way through. saw it so many times

me too! only lived in DC for abt 4 years as a kid, but i saw "to fly" as many times as i possibly could over that period. remember getting a weird intimation of age the first time my stomach didn't flip on the big drops.

Philly IMAX had a scene where you bungee jumped off a skyscraper; was awesome

speaking of pretty films with shitty stories, is this better looking than that final fantasy movie? cause that's kinda like my baseline reference point for what I will tolerate to see some awesome cgi boobs

A-MAZING!

lindy west @ the stranger, who's an dependably bullshit-free appreciator of cheap pop trash, loved the blue furry dogshit out it. which may or may not be worth a ten-penny damn, but i'm encouraged.

My boy went straight to bed when he got home last night but he said it was the greatest film ever on the way thru. This applies to 12 year-old boys only, obv.

James who? You remember -- unassuming chap, made a modest flick about the Titanic 12 years ago. His new movie, Avatar, is a computer-generated 3-D science-fiction eco-tract which arrives with marginally more fanfare than Christmas. It's also the first veiled critique of the West's foreign policy to cost almost as much as the US defence budget. (Plus you get Leona Lewis singing over the end credits. At least I think she was singing. The possibility remains that she caught her foot in the car door and the composer James Horner merely set her distress to music.)

It's also the first veiled critique of the West's foreign policy to cost almost as much as the US defence budget.

Ha! But to tell you the truth, after months of hating I'm actually looking forward to this. I can't remember the last "event" movie that felt like an actual event. I suppose "Lord of the Rings?"

W this amt of controlled publicity Waterworld would've worked. Dunno if that's good or bad, tho.

Fern Gully meets Warhammer 40k.

but was it any good?

Watchmen seemed like the last big film with a ton of publicity that made up for the fact that noone knew the comic, the actors and it was a 3 hour long piece of bullshit... oh.

Doesn't matter anymore man, it's Chinatown

daaaaaaaaaaamn@this movie

WHY ARE SMART PEOPLE GOING TO IT

to piss you off

the tech is phenomenal; this is the first 3D movie I've seen so I dunno if this is new stuff or what but it's pretty mindblowingly good

it is a bit tiring tho and hard to focus in places but worth it

big female ferngully had some natty oakleys for rollin' in her banshee

avatar is real y'all - http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1947868,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Imagine how much money it cost Cameron to create a well-timed promotional planet.

ayo my review is up so

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/121709/film2.html

IOW looked pretty cool but i hated the blue dudes and its way too long imo

and some of the eco-fantasy "the planet is a giant wikipedia page" shit is unbearable. there's a scene where they like hook into the master gaia forest computer and you can hear like soft echoes of children laughing and shit

I love this line:

The Na’Vi are remarkably lifelike, but to me that doesn’t change the fact that they look like big, blue dorks.

i can't say i hated it, but i was rollin my damn eyes at a lot of it and the rapturous praise it's getting from all quarters is kinda baffling to me

"the planet is a giant wikipedia page" lol why wasn't this in ur (very fair) review?

haha i thought of it after deadline :(

another thing i didnt have space for = sam worthington is so effing boring, esp compared to previous cameron heroes and heroines

kinda wish he had just let sigourney weaver be the actual star again

He was so boring in the Terminator movie, I am sort of scratching my head over how he is suddenly being cast in a lot of movies.

thought sig. weaver's final act was pretty demeaning for one of america's greatest living actresses

"As for the 3D, it’s neat enough, although not really necessary—to me, it would play about the same without it (Michelle Rodriguez’s tank top is the best reason for it, to be honest)."

i am surprised you have not posted this to WS

she is really insanely foxy in this movie's final act

3-D pix or it didn't happen

What was the audience reaction like at the showings you've seen? I mean, mine was the premiere and half the audience were involved in the making of the film in some way (people whooping as certain sections of the credit crawl scrolled past), so it was hardly a good sample - but people were cheering. But when I saw Titanic at a cinema in Baltimore shortly after it came out, people stood and applauded at the end. As Dan said upthread, that film was pretty engrossing for its duration on the big screen, but withered quickly in the memory. This one has a similar trajectory, I think. But I can't tell whether people are going queue round the block for this in the way they seemed to for the Yosser Hughes vs the Iceberg.

Pretty much all that was left for me by the time I did see it was the 3D high-def fireworks, as I'd seen it several times at various qualities (low-contrast, heavily-spoilered rough cut with no music/effects audio track, low bit-rate encrypted 15fps, then a decent telecined MPEG), read the script, blah blah blah. So I knew all its shortcomings.

Cameron in setting out to create giant 3-D spectacle and achieving it shockah!

has no one ever seen a 3-D film before? this technology has been around forever, I'm surprised at people getting all SUPERJAZZED about it all of a sudden. oh, but its 3-D CGI this time!?! whoopdefuckindoo

there, there.

ya i dunno, i can take it or leave it w/r/t 3D

oh so you're a CUTE FUCKING kitten? LAH DE DAH with your whiskers and pretty grey fur. FUCK YOU

remember Jaws 3-D that was so awesome when the dude's arm was like floating right in front of your face. or Captain Eo, dude that was so mindblowing

I remember "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared Sin" (or however you spell it short of me looking it up).

^^^arrgh was totally trying to remember the title of that meself!

pretty sure it's jared-syn and if I'm right I feel deep shame

deep shame ensues

movie anthologists are the art of pretend contrition

ts: metalstorm the destruction of jared-syn vs. megaforce

has no one ever seen a 3-D film before? this technology has been around forever, I'm surprised at people getting all SUPERJAZZED about it all of a sudden. oh, but its 3-D CGI this time!?! whoopdefuckindoo

― Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:20 PM (21 minutes ago)

yeah dude ive seen plenty of 3d in various forms and the point you are missing is that the 3d in this movie works like a bagazillion times better and looks immersive, not gimmicky.