_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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.

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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

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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.

its bad fuck yall

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

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

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Pretty funny & kinda ironic that Rupert Murdoch is making a shitload of money from this movie.

Top Gun still hangs onto the #100 spot by a fingernail.

Any of you foo's even try watching this on DVD in 2-D?

Won't catch me doing that.

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

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?

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.

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Watched it at cinema with this amazing new 3D business and thought it looked pretty, so managed to sit through it.
Tried watching it on DVD, only got 20 mins in and completely lost interest. It's a film you barely need to see once.

Are these rumours of Worthington being next Bond true? Seen a few articles mentioning it, but you know, it is the net!

i was just reading a thing and... this film was about the mining of UNOBTAINIUM

unobtainium

y

which has in the past been used by scientists/engineers/gear dorks to describe anything made from a v rare substance, and by Oakley for w/e their frames are made from

it's totally stupid