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The trailers don't even tell you half of what an incredible experience it truly is. I thought, just from seeing commercials, that it would be kinda lame and run of the mill. If you don't catch it in the theatres in digital 3D, you'll really miss out on something special. I watched it tonight and I couldn't believe what I saw.
 
I'll wait for it. It'll make HBO before too long I'm sure.

Other than that, I really don't seem to interested in it. Sorry.
 
Sounds like Pearl Harbor... the special effects wow me but the storyline really tees me off.
 
Saw on the news today that Avatar broke the $1 billion mark world wide.
IMHO it's a success and a lot of people do like it. I'm one of them.

make sure you see it in 3D, worth the extra $$$
 
crashaz said:
Sounds like Pearl Harbor... the special effects wow me but the storyline really tees me off.
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I've heard a lot of people say that. It's not preachy and doesn't do the whole 'evil Americans' thing. It's a completely fictional story and they don't draw parallels. Nothing about it has anything to do with any American conflicts, past or present. You'd have to see it to believe me.
 
I was listening to an interview with Cameron on XM radio and he was saying that that movie takes up almost a petibyte worth of space! Wow, that is a lot of information. Did I spell that right, a 'Petibyte'?

The computer that ran it was comprised of something like 40,000 processors and takes up about half of a schools gym and has water cooling towers outside. I think he said it is the worlds 5th largest computer.:applause:
 
Just to show you how popular it is up here in Snow Country, I saw it on Dec 22 in "regular 3D", and went back last Tuesday to see it in IMAX 3D, but never got in. It was sold out for the entire day as it has been every day since. Will try again tomorrow. Hopefully not too many kids skip class to see it, lol.
 
Just seen the trailer and...no...maybe on TV, but even then...no.

Sorry, I'm looking for a bit more in a movie than clichés and CGI. And those Na'vis give me the "uncanny valley" creeps.
 
Bjoern said:
Just seen the trailer and...no...maybe on TV, but even then...no.

Sorry, I'm looking for a bit more in a movie than clichés and CGI. And those Na'vis give me the "uncanny valley" creeps.
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It's nothing like that. Believe me, that's what I thought. The CGI is artfully done and compliments it's incredible creation of a beautiful world and deep story.
 
tigisfat said:
deep story.
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just the whole, americans wants land, one american agrees then changes their mind, falls in love with girl of said wanted land whilst finding out their not really that bad a person, big fight, happey ending, same old same old and highly predicatable :kilroy:
 
stiz said:
just the whole, americans wants land, one american agrees then changes their mind, falls in love with girl of said wanted land whilst finding out their not really that bad a person, big fight, happey ending, same old same old and highly predicatable :kilroy:
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So negative;

There are only so many story plots out there. Any study of literature will tell you there are only four categories that every story can be defined by. It was a good movie. I was simply trying to relate that I thought the same things as you until I saw it.
 
stiz said:
just the whole, americans wants land, one american agrees then changes their mind, falls in love with girl of said wanted land whilst finding out their not really that bad a person, big fight, happey ending, same old same old and highly predicatable :kilroy:
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Thanks Stiz...you just saved me the price of admission. :icon_lol: But seriously, I've spoken with several folks (young, and people my age) who really liked the movie. Maybe I'll see it...maybe I won't. :kilroy:

Brian
 
tigisfat said:
There are only so many story plots out there..
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and yet hollywood keeps useing the sames ones over and over again .... lets face it, the only movies with decent plots that make you think are done by the indepents who are mostly just starting out.

example, Damed united, cracking film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226271/

frost/nixon, nuther good film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/

Ink
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071804/

district9
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/

The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/

Theres many more great movies which dont follow the same old hollywood plot, they just dont have a massive bank account to pay for the PR. :kilroy:
 
I'm with tigisfat, but if you have even a remote interest in it, SEE IT ON THE BIG SCREEN IN 3D! It's more than just seeing avatar, it's an experience. I have seen it four times so far. The last time was with my buddy Dave, he is a negative personality like the others here, going on about the story, about being unoriginal, blah, blah. He came out really liking it.

Sad thing is, once I get it on DVD and watch it, it will be lackluster for me after experiencing it in all it's glory.

Sounds like Pearl Harbor... the special effects wow me but the storyline really tees me off.
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Why? I loved Pearl harbor, but then I enjoyed it for the love story as much as the historical part.
 
I just saw it. Wasn't as bad as I thought. Technology wise, billiant!
Storywise, yeah some cliche's and prdictability. "I didn't sign up for this s@#t!" Why a whole forest planet, and no furry animals. If they were Dogonians, I would root for them, instead I rooted for the military!
Also, don't mind the gas giant planet in low orbit above Pandora, and the gravity effect it would have.
Best part? Removing the FOD covers when the hereos were stealing one of the"choppers"!
Didn't see it in 3d, but there were only about ten people in the whole theatre. Love empty theatres!
 
I look forward to seeing it, even though I actually saw it years ago. Only then it was called Dances With Wolves. :bump:
 
tigisfat said:
I've heard a lot of people say that. It's not preachy and doesn't do the whole 'evil Americans' thing. It's a completely fictional story and they don't draw parallels. Nothing about it has anything to do with any American conflicts, past or present. You'd have to see it to believe me.
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That's part of the problem, it's such a ridiculously simplistic and underdeveloped plot in Avatar that it draws a tremendous number of obvious inane but somewhat vague parallels.

Rather than having the testicular fortitude to inform directly about something as all true science fiction should the plot is basically a rather twee metaphor that can stand for anything from US foreign policy to the current situation in Palestine to anything else you can shoe-horn in there. And the worst thing is I think Cameron was trying to have a dig at the former, however he spectacularly fluffs this up by getting too caught up in the visuals.

It was incredibly beautiful but felt as though it had been written with a pre-teen "tweeny" audience in mind.

It was a bit of an anti-climax for me. I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. In my opinion whilst it was a great "check your brain at the door" film and mildly entertaining it in no way deserves to be mentioned amongst the ranks of various sci-fi classics which I fear it will be.

And those mediocre "meh" films are always the worst to see a the cinema, I always feel I've been cheated. If something is horrendous then I'm left with plenty of things to criticise, and if something is incredible then likewise I will have plenty to consider and speculate about. But when something is decidedly average like Avatar? Blaah.
 
You can be negative all you want, but there isn't a single person who's sene it that disliked it. Chris H is the closest it gets, and he was simply neutral, if I understood him correctly.

Forget the story, forget the 'parallels' (that only people who are complaining about them have drawn), they've created the most magical and beautiful world I've ever seen in cinema. They don't show the HALF of it on commercials.

Here's another one: The action sequences aren't the standard "keep moving from shot to shot to distract the viewer so they won't notice flaws in the special effects" garbage. Every action sequence follows a plot and can be easily followed with good camera shots and simple logic. Transformers had so much senseless and mindless generic action crap going on that I had no idea what the hell was going on in the final battle, other than stuff was blowing up.

I was making fun of the dances with wolves thing too, arrowmaker. Just go watch it. It won't even be the same on blueray.
 
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