_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

ok, but criticize it for the right reasons (it's hackneyed) rather than the wrong reasons (complaining about stupid characters saying stupid things.)

ok, but criticize it for the right reasons (it's hackneyed) rather than the wrong reasons (complaining about stupid characters saying stupid things.)

ok, but criticize it for the right reasons (it's hackneyed) rather than the wrong reasons (complaining about stupid characters saying stupid things.)

ok lol I am actually with you in general but how is hackneyed distinguished from stupid characters saying stupid things? /pedant

well, in the example above, the character is saying stupid shit because the character is stupid, not because the director thinks it's actually a k3wl thing for the character to say. like, there are actual howlers in the dialogue, pick on those!

My main problem with that dialog was that it was so out-of-place in relation to the rest of the story it worked against whatever 'immersive' 3D VR movie experience I felt Avatar was trying to sell me on. There was plenty of silly/stupid dialog in that I ignored because at the moment it didn't break the spell.

just realized if you crossed apocalypto w/avatar imax 3d itd be the fucking pinnacle

real talk right there

Article in EW says his spindly legs were prosthetic and modeled after a real paraplegic's legs. And his real legs often hidden with practical effects, too.

Ah, thanks for that. Makes sense.

I did forget to mention that there was a couple sitting next to us in their mid to late 20s and the girl sitting immediately to my left literally squealed with delight about fifteen to twenty times. It was fairly off-putting.

h8 delight

The success of this movie is finally giving me an appreciation for what Titanic dissenters went through 12 years ago.

I should really see Apocalypto one of these days.

u really should

imagine what the people who didn't like star wars felt/feel like!

superior, is how we feel.

you know you have a special place in movie buff heaven

http://io9.com/5450294/james-camerons-laser-cats-plus-snls-avatar-sex-scene?skyline=true&s=x

I should really do that Star Wars vs. Close Encounters poll.

anyone who doesn't like star wars is a savage

A savage Venus.

“If Tom Cruise left instructions for his estate that it was okay to use his likeness in Mission Impossible movies for the next 500 years, I would say that would be fine,” says Cameron.

^^re: using avatar's cgi tech to make old actors young again

500 Years of Tom Cruise

Interview with the Not Quite Dead Vampire

Goddammit I want to go see it in Imax 3d but those shows are still totally selling out and I want to be in a theater that is half full at best.

I went at 11am this morning in times square and there were (a few) empty seats. but yeah you're not gonna find half full

liked it ok

Specifically dialog like this, introduced early on in the forest as spoken by an Avatar, which is like something a 16-year old boy would say while playing WOW

true but i think this is called knowing your demographic. that $1.6 billion global take (so far) is not coming primarily from ilx readers. we're just bonus dollars.

untrue! ive seen it 100m times so far

So I'm assuming this is going to win the Best Picture Golden Globe, no point in watching to see if QT pulls it out.

had he announced plans to pull it out during his acceptance speech if he wins?

I went to see this in IMAX 3D and the 3D broke so they showed it in 2D. There is no fucking way I'm going to sit through this dreck again to watch it in 3D. That part of my life is wasted.

Yes he did.

You know what I meant.

(xpost)

is he going to pull it out in 3D?

Got my glasses at the ready, just in case.

I found those RealD glasses at thrift stores a few years ago and went through a phase of wearing them around. One day King Khan was in town and he was wearing them as well. He pointed out that they give off a pretty good Bo Diddley vibe!

carson's take -

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201001/james-cameron-avatar-tom-carson?printable=true

the 3D broke so they showed it in 2D

oh man. that blows.

must be weird for Kathryn Bigelow that The Hurt Locker is probably gonna lose every major award to a movie her ex-husband made

I figure if Avatar got the Golden Globe it's gonna really clean up at the Oscars

possibly the best 3D effect of the whole experience was the Cheshire cat in the Alice in Wonderland trailer even though there's no way I'm actually gonna go see that movie. I'll totally see that NASA Hubble movie tho.

wait this won best picture over the hurt locker????

jesus fucking christ

Golden Globes, people. Golden Globes. Move along, nothing to see here.

I loved "Avatar" but Cameron's acceptance speech is really making me reconsider.

China pulls Avatar

things chinese people and na'vi have in common: they are both 8 feet tall and blue

they are both 3-d

s1ocki and nrq otm about the 3d bullshit. ice cr?m right about everything else though.

http://abadah.ytmnd.com/

lol

Step aside Titanic

ha remember when everyone was all lolhahaha dis gonna bomb dis gonna bomb? u just know cameron had to have made a pact with some kind of weird underwater spirit or something

I GIVE MY SOUL TO THE DEEP, IN EXCHANGE FOR 100 BAZILLION DOLLARS