The New York Review of Books weighs in.
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Friday, 5 March 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
good readthx
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 5 March 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"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?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 5 March 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― mandible corrective (latebloomer), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
can someone muster SOMETHING original to say about this movie?
― mandible corrective (latebloomer), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I still haven't seen this movie but never say na'vi!
(how's that?)
― da croupier, Friday, 5 March 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
admittedly the film doesn't give you much to work with in that regard, but still.
x-post
lol
― mandible corrective (latebloomer), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
not really buyin this "avatars intellectually incoherent cause the navi are acivilized and hypercivilized" argument
― noted schloar (dyao), Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
escapist movie is escapist is not really a strong zing either
― noted schloar (dyao), Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― A B C, Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Avatar was the shit. people who don't like Avatar can go listen to their Jack Wagner cassingles...
― Ballistic, Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― DavidM, Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i didn't like this movie, sorry.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
that sketch sounds like caca but i blame stiller. like i think he might be a crazy person & not in an interesting way
― A B C, Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
all you need is just a little more time....to be SURE
― Ballistic, Saturday, 6 March 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― mandible corrective (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 March 2010 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so this movie was pretty dope, gonna just add to the chorus here
― how is "babby" horribly formed????? (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 March 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― how is "babby" horribly formed????? (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 March 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
not seeing this in 3d is like being offered a blowjob and going "ehhh the hand is fine"
― jizzchin (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 7 March 2010 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― how is "babby" horribly formed????? (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 March 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ballistic, Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
This movie has pleasure;, expecting it to hold up "intellectually" sounds worse than the bullshit that Inglourious Basterds is about "language" and epistemology.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Ballistic, Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
morbs not hating this kinda warms my heart tbh
― how is "babby" horribly formed????? (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 March 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It did mine too, until I noticed he still had to toss in an IB blast.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 7 March 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
avaterds
― am0n, Sunday, 7 March 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
nyah nyah!!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"ava-tards" = much better
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
bigelowned
― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 8 March 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
^
― generosity and necrophilia (latebloomer), Monday, 8 March 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
morbs not hating this kinda warms my heart tbhIt 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.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 8 March 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Avatar is kinda 40% shit
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 March 2010 07:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i don't really disagree with that
― how is "babby" horribly formed????? (k3vin k.), Monday, 8 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
its bad fuck yall
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
although now that it didnt win any major oscars i feel better abt the whole thing
the academy really dropped the ball on a great opportunity to troll deej
― noted schloar (dyao), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
as much as i didn't like any of this and it looked like a wildberry pop tart, i gotta say it made a much less satisfying oscar villain than up in the air
― A B C, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
#12
― abanana, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty funny & kinda ironic that Rupert Murdoch is making a shitload of money from this movie.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Top Gun still hangs onto the #100 spot by a fingernail.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Any of you foo's even try watching this on DVD in 2-D?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Won't catch me doing that.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
caught it on blu ray for the first time the other day, very impressed. i'm not normally into this kind of fantasy stuff but i was bowled over. at some points i liked to sit real close to the tv just to admire the pretty colours in hd
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Does anybody think there is an emerging critical backlash on this movie in which many people are holding Avatar to the same standards of, say, The Battle of Algiers?
― Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Monday, 10 May 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The biggest problem for me is how dumb it gets certain points, peaking right around when the military is destroying hometree. BAD GUYS BAD GOOD GUYS GOOD. Shot of poor native cowering behind tree stump. Shot of evil military guy laughing with a cigar. Shot of Na'avi child running for his life & mom going "Nooooo!". Shot of military guy saying "Die! Die!". Etc. Etc.
Sam Worthington is an absolute, total bore as an actor, God knows what kind of deal he made w the devil to be in all these big budget hollywood films these days. Thankfully he's an unrecognizable alien for most of it. I loved the stranger parts of the movie, where they are exploring the Na'avi homeland and stuff, but the heavy-handed politics and DO YOU REALIZE message -- not the message itself but how it's portrayed -- turns me off. It makes me think of 80s movies aimed at children where you have the big bad gov't and the cute helpless alien. Not that those were bad movies, but they also weren't over 2 1/2 hours long. And didn't take themselves quite so seriously.
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 10 May 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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― A B C, Friday, 28 May 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link