_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

(cue 4,000 dissertations on the political appropriation of popular culture.)

cue annual convention of avatar fans and memorabilia

I saw this again (3d/imax) and loved it. haters on this can eat my mangravy fwiw.

Has anyone seen this movie in 2-D? I just want to know how silly the clips will look during the Oscar broadcast.

I keep meaning to see it in 2-D. I think I'd prefer it that way.

LARPING IN 3D!

http://tinyurl.com/y9p5gfu

Portrait of The Na'vi People of Hometree Wisconsin.

o rly

this and chat roulette are signs of the apocalypse

oh, it's a joke. nevermind.

Because you, the people, wanted it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/18/james-cameron-avatar-prequel-novel

http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/3mqc

Avatar... with Babies

I have no problem seeing this movie for its visuals. Of course it would be great if it had a good script too, but a not-so-crappy script is fine by me, if it looks cool enough to make me forget the flaws in it. Movies are an visual medium, "good storytelling" is only half of the equation. None of the classic movies are classic only because of their story.

― Tuomas

Tuomas OTM! Scads of fun-haters in this thread.

Yeah, I have to say, I just saw this last night, and I liked it way more than I thought I would, and that's almost entirely because of the visuals. The characters are stock, the storyline is silly and culturally problematic, but damn, there are some sumptuous textures on Pandora. Loved Sully and Neytiri just flying through the mountains on their ikran.

The New York Review of Books weighs in.

good read
thx

basically agree with jaymc. the flaws with this movie are obvious to anyone who is not 5 years old but still feel that if you didn't at least enjoy this in 3d you kinda hate fun.

"if you didn't at least enjoy this in 3d you kinda hate fun."

I haven't seen it, but I get the feeling Hurt Locker 3D with Andrew WK would be more fun than Avatar. Can anyone who has seen both confirm?

that nybr piece was terrible.

"The message of what is now James Cameron's most popular movie thus far, and the biggest-grossing movie in history—like the message of so much else in mass culture just now—is, by contrast, that "reality" is dispensable altogether; or, at the very least, whatever you care to make of it, provided you have the right gadgets. In this fantasy of a lusciously colorful trip over the rainbow, you don't have to wake up. There's no need for home. Whatever its futuristic setting, and whatever its debt to the past, Avatar is very much a movie for our time."

groan

can someone muster SOMETHING original to say about this movie?

I still haven't seen this movie but never say na'vi!

(how's that?)

admittedly the film doesn't give you much to work with in that regard, but still.

x-post

lol

not really buyin this "avatars intellectually incoherent cause the navi are acivilized and hypercivilized" argument

escapist movie is escapist is not really a strong zing either

i would never bother to argue over the intellectual merits of avatar i was just bored. maybe if it didn't look like a tie-dye dolphin t-shirt

Avatar was the shit. people who don't like Avatar can go listen to their Jack Wagner cassingles...

"Sacha Baron Cohen has been ditched as an Oscars presenter for fear he would upset Avatar director James Cameron.

Instead, producers had lined him up to appear a comedy sketch, in which he would play one of Avatar's female blue-skinned aliens, known as Na'vi, alongside Ben Stiller as a translator.

Cohen’s character would eventually claim she was pregnant with James Cameron's love child – and demand a Jerry Springer-style confrontation with the director.

A spokesperson for Baron Cohen reportedly said he would not be performing at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony because of ‘creative differences’ but insisting it was ‘nothing acrimonious’."

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/03/04/10620/cohen_dropped_from_oscars_%96_again

yeah, i didn't like this movie, sorry.

that sketch sounds like caca but i blame stiller. like i think he might be a crazy person & not in an interesting way

all you need is just a little more time....to be SURE

"maybe if it didn't look like a tie-dye dolphin t-shirt"

one of the things i liked about the movie, actually. it was unashamed to be so fruity. just wish the actual story had been more interesting.

so this movie was pretty dope, gonna just add to the chorus here

i didn't even see it in 3d and it was still amazing to look at. the main character was kind of a loser, but i loved being beat over the head with "imperialism sucks!" while marveling at visuals made by a guy with wayyyy too much money.

not seeing this in 3d is like being offered a blowjob and going "ehhh the hand is fine"

i wanted 3d badly but our theatres dont have the 3d one anymore, just the normal. i am definitely seeing it in 3d when i get a chance

One day someone is going to figure out how to make 3D movies that don't require glasses and that person is going to be insanely rich.

after seeing it in 3-D, I actually felt disoriented for a half an hour, like I actually had to leave the world I was just in. I'm just glad nobody stepped on my sneakers on the way out or I may have hissed and speared them through the chest.

This movie has pleasure;, expecting it to hold up "intellectually" sounds worse than the bullshit that Inglourious Basterds is about "language" and epistemology.

pleasures, i meant

yea I didn't see anybody whining about the lack of monologues about 'nature versus nuture' during Terminator. this is a fun action film with a familiar story and groundbreaking graphics people!

morbs not hating this kinda warms my heart tbh

It did mine too, until I noticed he still had to toss in an IB blast.

avaterds

nyah nyah!!

"ava-tards" = much better

bigelowned

^

morbs not hating this kinda warms my heart tbh
It did mine too, until I noticed he still had to toss in an IB blast.

The one follows the other like the day is followed by the night.

Avatar is kinda 40% shit

oh i don't really disagree with that

i decided that i really shouldn't have an opinion on this movie since it just wasn't made for me. just nothing about it pushes my buttons. but that doesn't mean it's bad.