_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Nobody drives anymore now that we all have our own personal dragon bug things.

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fuck I'm connected too via ponytail; how come I can't feel you

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WEDNESDAY BOX OFFICE
1. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel $18,801,277
2. Avatar $16,445,291

psyched for avatar the squeakquel

the sequoial

lol

i guess itd be more of a treequel tbh

haha yeah

that's not true about alvin & the chipmunks is it??!!!

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

it's not gonna happen but if the chipmunks squeakel outgrossed Avatar that would be some all-time lols

23/12 was Alvin 2's opening day, whereas Avatar has been out for a week, but still... Didn't have to sign an NDA for Alvin, funnily enough.

Avatar's opening weekend wasn't all that amazing, was it?

it was good but not great and needs to continue to perform to be a lol hueg blockbuster - people seem to like it so i could see that happening i guess

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2632&p=.htm

"dude he doesnt want to drive all the way to burlington in 2d thats so last paradigm"
he's gonna love the way it looks

okay, so i liked this. grade A+++ hokum imo. kicks all kinds of jurassic park's ass.

chipmunks is doing well because school is out and aside from Princess and the Frog, which as been out for almost a month, it's the only kid's movie in theaters for some reason (christmas carol I guess, which also stupidly opened ages ago)

cameons films all start out slow at the box office I think

chipmunks is doing well because it is going to change the face of cinema

"We're going to take the same 3D technology James Cameron used in AVATAR and stick it up Jason Lee's butt."

Somewhere I read (and maybe you did too) is that studios are now going to try re-releasing 3-D Raiders, etc., etc., etc.

there's nerd shit and there's dork shit.

like raiders of the lost ark and ghostbusters are cool nerd shit, but like babylon 5 and dressing up like sailor moon are like lame dork shit.

Avatar was like a lame dork sandwich of furry-phile "anthropomorphic art" mixed with Ferngully.

it was really pretty tho and some of the animals were cool, peace out

dialogue was like something on an EPCOT ride come on now

this movie was retarded as hell, beyond belief actually

it also looked fucking amazing - kind of unbelievable

hell = retarded >>>> belief

avatarded

giovanni ribisi's charachter should have been played by paul giamatti

how much does this movie have to make to not be a flop btw? can it lose 200m and still be a... success doesn't seem like the right word but success?

love all the magazine articles about the "hidden messages" in avatar, aka the ones it was hitting you over the head with for 3 hours.

also, wtf @ "get it done" five times from every retard character

SUBTLE CULTURAL COMMENTARY!

giovanni ribisi's charachter should have been played by paul giamatti reiser

okay, so i liked this. grade A+++ hokum imo. kicks all kinds of jurassic park's ass.

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 02:27 (15 hours ago) Bookmark

no

lj in displaying arbitrary preference for "vintage" hokum shocker

arbitrary preference for film that semi-defined my childhood of movie fandom, a film that has razor-sharp scripting, great characterisation and genuinely gripping action sequences, a film that is full of bits I can remember despite not having seen it for about 10 years (maybe exaggerated) and a film that feels like a film rather than a presentation

and hey I LIKED avatar! i mean your post is OTM until you mention jurassic park

i dunno about the razor sharp scripting. avatar is very very broad, but it's impeccably lean. people over 10 might like more nuance, but there's really no waste at all in the script. pretty impressive imo.

the only real dire moment was the bride of kong stuff.

and hell, i'll stan for star wars but there's just no question that for today's seven year old this is going to be mindblowing, fandom-defining stuff. eh, maybe you gotta see it in 3D.

if it makes sense, i think in trying to be very plain about things, it produces quite a lot of dialogue that is worthy of eye-rolling. it likes a cliche, and it likes a Big Statement. other problems come from things being skipped over, or geared exclusively towards massive and unrealistic events. insane moves. jurassic park feels way more organic, if that makes sense.

ooh zing! 2D is perfectly enough for me cheers :P

(i mean, my problems with the movie wouldn't have been helped by 3D!)

jurassic park is also not very po-faced and has jeff goldblum as its voice of reason, not preachy earth-mother na'vi types, sorry 2 b grinch who stole xmas

complaining about the dialogue in this movie is like complaining about the melody in james brown

2D is perfectly enough for me cheers

okay but this is like saying "i saw the jazz singer without sound and it was eh"

i think that particular false dichotomy was discussed upthread.

i was dazzled by this film visually and am confident i would have been yet more dazzled in 3D but i don't think extra dazzlement would have rectified my misgivings. a movie is more than a picture. it's also a narrative

Obviously the narrative was a bit of an afterthought and not exceptional in any way, but I imagine that you knew that going in, so why not let the movie play to its strengths? For the same reason I don't want to go to IMAX to watch a really great narrative film that was shot on Handicam, you know?

because i was watching it with a friend having met him in a very impromptu style, and the only convenient screening was at the tottenham court road which didn't have 3D capability

then 2 days later the rest of my family saw it in 3D x_x

I gotta bad feeling about this

use the force, luke

"You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done."

there's nerd shit and there's dork shit.

white people drive like this, but black people drive like this.