_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

How could there not already be too much slashfic about that.

Pick a story, any story

cameron in 2006:

Both the "Avatar" and "Battle Angel" series, he added, will begin with self-contained debut movies along the lines of the original "Star Wars" trilogy. "The films have to play as individual films, but they have a greater story arc that goes over the three-film cycle," he insisted, saying he isn't a big fan of "The Matrix Reloaded"-like cliffhangers between chapters. "I think that's how it works the best. I don't think you want to just run people off the cliff after the second film."

http://haal9000.com/dvd2002-3/coming/return_blue_lagoon.jpg

thinking this franchise wouldn't be a bad way for more promising younger sci-fi action directors (of now or of a few years from now or w/e) to get their hands on big crazy special effects budgets isn't really the same as welcoming a flood of creepy slash fic websites.

2nd move should be the navi attacking earth

that's district 10

avatar gt

maybe the sequel should be the navi using human avatars

2 Ava 2 Tar

navatar

sock puppetar

avatar: heaven's blue fury

in this movie an internet message board community is trolled by a bored navi controlling a human avatar

heaven's blue furry

E. Tar

AvaTarBaby

(controversial racial allegory)

ava2ar

so this was fun

I'd forgotten that 3D movies give me massive headaches, though.

Navi vs Predator

Just saw this, have not read whole thread yet (totes intend to tho) but i *DID* ctrl-f "mononoke" and was pretty flabbergasted that there has been no mention of the heavy debt to it, esp. the forest scenes.

Avatar 2-D

hmm haven't seen it in a long time but mononoke feels like a good call. also nausicaa! doesn't she control some giant nature bugs in the end?

okay, half way done with thread.

1) slocki y u hardmanning shakey mo for doing exactly what 99% of everyone in this thread was doing for the first half of the thread?

2) also slock w/r/t: "did we really need separate scenes of Worthington learning to ride a) an alien horse, b) an alien bird and c) a bigger alien bird?" 1c did not occur in the cut that i watched! it was like "yo matalk yogurto will never expect me to jump his ass from above" (cut to black... then the hero returns)

3) the CGI WTA hype is real, on first view this is way better than LOTR/Kong/Star Trek.

4) this is not high cinema, but if you enjoyed The Matrix and Dances With Wolves and Princess Mononoke/Nausicaa and would like to see them mashed-up in a CGI 3D fantasy world, you should check this out.

xpost!

i will venture to guess the director's cut of this will be much better, you can tell when they were just ffwding along to get to the ending.

dont got on 3d glasses @ home :(

also saw this on 9:45am (!!!) on a wednesday morning matinee (lol $12pp)... sold out packed theater in the largest imax theater in norcal (aka: computer nerd center of the world)

dont got on 3d glasses @ home :(

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:50 PM (9 minutes ago)

they put all 3 of the LOTR dircuts in the theaters on v. short term limited release iirc...

any of youse who really liked this movie, would you say you really connected with the characters? is jake sully now like a classic all-time character for you? or neytiri?

― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Sunday, December 20, 2009 10:44 AM

i'd rate the movie about 7.5 out of 10 (entertaining, would def recommend for fans of genre) and was 100% not expecting high-drama BUT the film absolutely did it's job of taking me into its world and entertaining me (aside from the few groanworthy moments) for nearly 3 hours and i didn't look at my phone-clock once!

Joel David Moore is a dead ringer for Tom Green, either that or i forget what Tom Green looks like.

the one plot point that REALLY bugs me is the fact that sully was the only one to break thru to the navis because of a mystical prophecy type shit - ie the bugs landing on him - rather than any of his actions. i hate that stuff.

― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Monday, December 21, 2009 10:46 AM (1 week ago)

this is flawed. the enya (?) seed stayed his smurfette's bow when she was gonna kill him. none of them were impressed UNTIL he did all the physical stuff (riding the horses, banshees) BUT THEN he betrayed them when it was revealed that he was aware of the colonists plan all along and never warned them until the 11th hour. He was a pariah UNTIL he tamed the dragonthingy (again, off-camera in my cut!) and brought him back to prove that he was in fact the Kwisatz Haderach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4M9Tp6c0bs

http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/imageshand_20job_small.jpg

lol this is my friends' biz swear to gawd! i'm typing this from 1/2 block away tbh.

also tbh was kinda letdown the "mating" ritual didn't involve a symbolic locking of the ponytail USBs... too obvs?

hated sigourney's stanford sweatshirt 94/7 wtf is up with that? like gurl, change your avatar's clothesies you're like almost 60y/o beezy.

lol people living in the past

also tbh was kinda letdown the "mating" ritual didn't involve a symbolic locking of the ponytail USBs... too obvs?

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta)

yeah was looking fwd to this bit and it never happened! don't think 'too obvs' would have been a problem for this film. also in general i was expecting freakier jungle shit, like plants that attack you, nasty creepy crawlies, etc. all the potentially threatening plants and insects just turned out to be beautiful and harmless! all they had was giant dogs, dino-rhinos and big lizard-birds? kind of lame.

but i guess it's for children so there wasn't going to be too much bio-horror stuff. which actually suits me fine cos that stuff grosses me out! in fact i don't know what i'm complaining about.

1) slocki y u hardmanning shakey mo for doing exactly what 99% of everyone in this thread was doing for the first half of the thread?

it was annoying when they did it too!

i will venture to guess the director's cut of this will be much better, you can tell when they were just ffwding along to get to the ending.

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thank god, if there had been 45 minutes more rainforest babble i seriously would not have been able to take it

also in general i was expecting freakier jungle shit, like plants that attack you, nasty creepy crawlies, etc. all the potentially threatening plants and insects just turned out to be beautiful and harmless!

agreed, my biggest complaint

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/first-family-sees-avatar-in-3-d/

I want to see this again at Imax but every show is sold out and I'd really rather wait til it's died down a bit.

boxofficemojo has worldwide gross through dec. 30 at $745 million. i guess cameron gets to toast the new year with a big bottle of told-you-so.

Shit. I should probably dust off my old 3D resume. It's gonna be a growth industry again...

i saw it 3d, no imax, and was not impressed. glad to see i was not alone in perving over michelle rodriguez in 3d :O

actually the best part was when we walked out and there was this 7 ft tall guy coming into the theater. my dad saw him first was like "holy shit!"

Thursday
12/31

AVATAR

$14,925,000

SQUEAKQUEL

$8,750,000

HOLMES

$8,720,000

should cross $300 million tomorrow

which is prob abt how much it actually cost