preview: *_*
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
By this time wednesday I will only be a 2D vet.
I have prepared myself by watchin Waterworld on Netflix Watch Instantly last night o_O
― .gif of the magpie (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/3/3d-glasses-emoticon.gif
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
loved the bioluminescent jungle floor - it was the 3d movie equivalent of that room in stoner's houses with all the blacklight posters
― I am a galactic activation portal...enter me (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://nerdbusiness.com/articles/218-wallpapers/previews/fluorescence61920.jpg
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
in fact i feel like this movie is that room of the house if the house is the movie industry
xpost oh man i am totally eating shrooms next time i see this
― I am a galactic activation portal...enter me (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The worst thing about this is that you KNOW Michael Bay is going to use this 3D tech on whatever abortion he has planned next.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:29 (2 hours ago) Permalink
2nd worst thing: Russ Meyer didn't live to make use of this technology.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
in an ideal world james cameron would've used this technology to make an avatar the last airbender movie and m night shyamalan would be doing the live-action ferngully movie
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
its set up like hes got some grand plan, and instead he throws them all at a bunch of guys armed with missiles and guns tie fighters, where they're torn to shreds (the only way the ending could be 'happy' was that godhan solo had to interfere!)
― =皿= (dyao), Monday, December 21, 2009 8:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
u think xwings are the star wars equivilent of na'vi flying on fighting birds using bows & arrows
― deej, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
just pointing out it's kinda silly to be scoring points off of avatar using star wars
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah im saying that doesnt make sense -- they had a battle tactic wherein outnumbered x wings could still win -- i.e. destroy the death star -- it made some strategic sense, where in avatar they're just throwing themselves in the path of dudes with guns
― deej, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
where in avatarreturn of the jedi they're just throwing themselvesewoks in the path of dudesstormtroopers with gunslasers
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think u are following me. they have lasers too. also they are called blasters /nerd
― deej, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
just don't get what gets your goat about this umpteenth iteration of the charge of the light brigade on film
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
nature only acted because it felt sorry for the na'vi...enough martyrdom and hammerhead buffalo will ride 2 ur aid
― Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight! (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe nature just wanted to see if her bros would really ride for her
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― deej, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Nature acted because nature has a vested interest in a sequel.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Tho to be fair, nature really should have seen it coming.
ya i agree that the thing about SW is that the rebels had a cogent plan (fly here, shoot into this thing—they used their smarts to find a flaw in the empire's military machine) and i find that more compelling than the "hey let's all get together and put on a show!" thing avatar did
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This movie was great!! Trippy visuals! Flying mushroom jellyfish-looking things!! George W. Bush as the main bad guy!! Flying psychedelic dragon-pterodactyls!!
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
You know, I got the impression the ground "forces" (as such) were mostly just a distraction so that the air forces (with the true element of surprise, since they didn't show on the radar) could take out all the flying machines (which they did, pretty quickly). Once the air assault began, the ground forces, er, turned tail and ran away.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i would have liked to see some guerrilla tactics on the ground. throw shit from the trees, dig a hole, something.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hey how is the music in this thing--i guess there are some unreleased Grateful Dead songs on the soundtrack?
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
clearly soundtrack should be by YES
― If COMETS had horoscope they would have the SUN conjunct URANUS (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
the soundtrack was on some generic tribal shit + meaningful celtic titanic music
― deej, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
it was like enya but with more pan-pipes and offended me slightly iirc
― uttery cuntery (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
but when this comes out on dvd imma synch up the battle scene w/ gates of delirium and it is gonna rock so hard
― uttery cuntery (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
so it sounds like the Grateful Dead were going in a new direction. . . thanks, everyone. . . i'll have to check it out
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Their strategy sounded like Tora Bora -- get the folks with guns into an area where they know the terrain and the opponents don't. Still, they did charge head-on.
Oh, also re the second half being the inverse of Aliens, I thought the first half was the inverse of Aliens, as far as that one being "you all are heading to the most hostile place in the universe" and it was, versus "you all are heading to the most hostile place in the universe" and it's not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8
― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the whole thing is an inversion of aliens i even said so in my review yall!!!!!!
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
my problem is I don't see why they don't nuke the mother tree from orbit, just to be sure
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
The inverse of "Aliens" would have been a handful of blue people and a bazillion soldiers.
Man, I hated the score. And as I told someone else, that Leona Lewis song seems designed specifically to send you out of the theater unable to bask in the afterglow so that you're forced to see the movie again to re-experience those feelings.
You're talking Ewok style. The blue people just don't roll that way.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
wow this is sort of a compelling concept re uses for motion capture
Cameron: The other thing that people aren't talking about, you can take an actor of a given age, and you can transform their age. Additive makeup can age somebody, but it's hard to make someone younger. Let's say you have a novelistic storyline where you cast an actor in their 40s, but the first time you see them they're 15 years old and the last time you see them they're 80. This is the Benjamin Button idea. Clint Eastwood could do another Dirty Harry movie and look the way he looked in the '70s. He would still be making all the performance choices. It would be his voice. We'd just make him 30 years younger.
http://www.slate.com/id/2239171/pagenum/all
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
they should have made IEDs out of some kind of weird exploding Pandora jungle nuts.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost the score is not good Horner, no. I downloaded it yesterday and it's just a puree of various longtime Horner tropes, not deployed appealingly or memorably.
I'm not a Horner hater though, he's done some A+ work in his time.
― .gif of the magpie (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i heartily support the suggestion that this soundtrack should have been full of Yes epics.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I hate Horner. I can't think of any score I've really liked of his besides "Aliens." As far hacks go I think I prefer Zimmer, but then again, I can't recall much of his moody bombast, either (aside from the "Thin Red Line" score, which I love, and "The Lion King").
Yes would have been awesome (if not quite awe-inspiring). Vincent Gallo was right!!!!
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1102840089/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Young Horner did some awesome shit:
Wrath Of KhanSomething Wicked This Way ComesBrainstormSneakersLand Before Time
His stuff got really glutinous and lazy after his Titanic bonanza though.
― .gif of the magpie (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, dude got a huge hunk of that Dion dough, didn't he?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
And since then, every score he's involved with has to have an end titles song sung by fillintheblank.
― .gif of the magpie (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
when sully got on the tarduk or whatever i wanted to shout 'i have ridden the mighty dune worm!' but figured it would be kind of disrespectful
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
re: na'vi tactics
i was thinking they were gonna hide out on the floating mountains and like dump giant boulders onto the flying machines. but not. deej is right that there were a lot of missed opportunities for actual/interesting battle tactics in that final fight (which was surprisingly rushed for the battle-action climax of a contemporary adventure film).
and i dunno where s1ocki's review ran, but it's true abt the inversion of aliens thing. seemed very obviously intentional on cameron's part.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
there were these kids sitting in front of me that were too young (in the 4-6 range) and they kept turning to their dad asking 'is that guy gonna be okay?'. i wish i had brought my flask and made a drinking game of it.
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
re: final battle & disappointment
for one thing they said they rode out on the 4 winds or whatever, i thought that meant we would get at least 4 different types of mounts. also there should've been some even bigger badasser thing they could've ridden into battle, i paid 12.50 for this shit, where's my fucking wormsign?
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this remark from Cameron to Peter "LOTR" Jackson made me tense:
Cameron: But they've also lost the courage to make, frankly, a movie like Avatar, which is a blockbuster-scaled movie not based on prior arc. All the blockbusters of the last four years, like Transformers, Harry Potter, Spider-Man—they're all films based on other films or part of a franchise
― Dominique, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
such a red herring, that argument. who gives a shit about original material as long as the end result is good.
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
god forbit we cultivate enduring, multifaceted myths within the culture
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
forbit? what the fuck is that
forbid
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:08 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you're holding up NORBIT as an example of that?
― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link