_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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.

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

#12

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

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Unobtainium

I can see thinking that this is a lame aspect of science fiction in general, but there really isn't anything unusual about it.

I enjoyed this much more in 2D blu-ray at home. That said, the annoying parts are more obvious too.

Also tried out 3D tv with glasses at best buy and it was horrible.

Also tried out 3D tv with glasses at best buy and it was horrible.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, August 6, 2010 7:26 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark

Yes wtf. They're rolling this out too early.

I've noted it before, but kids are the canary in the coal mine. "Avatar" is an outlier. Most 3-D movies are aimed at kids. Kids hate 3-D. It's uncomfortable for them. Parents hate taking them to 3-D, because it's more expensive and they have to make sure their kids keep their glasses on, lest they watch a blurry screen. I took my daughter to see "Toy Story 3" a second time, in 2-D, and she greatly preferred it flat over 3-D. Heard numerous similar stories from other parents.

They are indeed rushing this shit, backwards, rolling out the technology before they have enough product that will truly benefit. If they can get 3-D sports to take off, good for them, but what kind of lame Super Bowl party requires you to sit in one spot with $100 goggles on?

i saw this

welp, pretty damn good tbh, at least structurally and visually and in terms of action scenes. however the villains were just too evil and some of the dialogue bits which were clearly equating this with our recent misadventures overseas were a little on the nose.

also i liked how michelle rodriguez apparently spent about an hour putting on warpaint, then got in her helicopter and promptly bought it after some ineffectual dogfighting.

haha yeah, that was actually one of my favorite parts of the movie

still don't get what's so visually stunning about this.

omar otm - esp about the structure. i think cameron actually gets underrated as a writer because his dialogue's so wooden, but his movies are always very fluidly paced. evil villains is a valid complaint but i didnt mind it so much because i thought ribisi and lang were awesome with some pretty wooden roles.

just used wooden twice, thinkin about boners i guess

or ucla~

hard not to when they pop up, amirite?

yeah i get complaints about dialogue and what not but cameron has really never made a film which had anything other than a tight structure, even the films that 4 days long. well, true lies always seemed a bit sloppy. that one still seems incongruous to me.

stephen lang has kinda always owned the parts he's played.

watched a bit of this at home on blu-ray and actualyl liked the way it looked a lot more for some reason. i think i just hate 3D

seriously tho all that mystical rainforest giggling children shit is horrible, horrible

still don't get what's so visually stunning about this.

The animation was much, much better than anything I have ever seen in a movie. Ever.

what abotu stephen king's sleepwalkers

I haven't seen that! *runs to Netflix*