Film: Avatar

[wizekrak]

I really enjoyed this even though the plot had been done before and I felt like I was being hit over the heat with a very blatant political/social message. I was surprised to see Unobtainium make an appearance since I didn't think I'd be seeing it again since 'The Core'.

 

[LoveAlways]

I know they're animated. My annoyance wasn't so much that they didn't use a real rain forest but how much money they wasted.

In coming to Hawaii??? I double dog dare you to come here, camp out in the jungle and think the same thing.

ps you can stay at my house after

 

[That-Strange-Guy]

I just went to see this and I was blown away by how wrong i was. I thought it was gonna be stupid!

I think I would have blood sacrificed one of my friends to make it never end [I was high]

I have never grown so attached to a movie in my life! My mind has been blown away.

 

[alasdairm]

only trouble with that is theres no such thing as 3d for dvd.

arguments over whether it's any good or not aside, there are 3d dvds. e.g. coraline

alasdair

 

[AmorRoark]

In coming to Hawaii??? I double dog dare you to come here, camp out in the jungle and think the same thing.

ps you can stay at my house after

Haha, I'm sure it was an unbelievable experience but I really don't think it was necessary for the film to fly/accommodate the entire cast with a week's vacation in Hawaii to 'get the feeling'. I mean, sure, I know lots of filmmakers do such things but I've never heard anyone boast about doing it up to now. In the interview it just sounded... retarded.

Regardless, I'll take you up on that invitation some day lady. You're awesome.

 

[BlueFractal]

lol I'm very, very sure lots of way more retarded things happened on that movie set and on every other movie set ever.

 

[LoveAlways]

^^true plus, i hate to admit it, but we need the tourism now I WISH he woulda filmed at least some stuff here i have a lot of friends that work in film production.

 

[Ds]

4 Stars, It was a pretty good movie I gotta admit. The whole avatar sex scene threw me off, and I'm not sure what to think about it. er
Wish there was more blood. I loved the fact the United States came in and just took their shit. Good shit.

 

[BlueFractal]

Most of the people didn't mind or even enjoyed those evil humans getting their asses kicked, while a couple of stereotypical rightwing religious patriottic nutters complain about how this movie is environmentalist, anti-usa and anti-human. Unsettling how they feel with the destroyers of beauty and good and disliked the na'vi culture.
They also can't stop complaining about a USA soldier fighting against his mates (although Cameron smartly steered around that one by calling them hired contractors).

 

[aanallein]

The movie was spectacular and was the best money I've spent on going to the theater in 27 years. The vision of the director was amazing and when I left, I felt saddened that I had to leave a world that captivated me. I don't even know how to express the experience in words other than to say it was beautiful and remarkable. You must see it in IMAX 3D! :D

Anybody who didn't like it or feels compelled to criticize it is not somebody I care to ever have contact with. Critics love to hear themselves talk and think that bringing something down makes them better. The irony is that they are the ones losing out because this movie was absolutely stunning.


oh and it's revenue hit 1 billion worldwide in 2 or so weeks already. lol to all the people saying it would flop.

 

[aanallein]

blah blah blah blah blah

seriously get over yourself.

Everybody talked about a lot of movies I hate. So? Therefore it's good?

I'm not trolling. Any 'film' where the director sends his entire cast to Hawaii to 'feel it' without shooting a single scene there just makes me fucking angry on principle alone. I'm not going to support something I view as part of what's really wrong with 'Hollywood'... especially something where the plot/ simple interview made me want to bang my head against the steering wheel.

lol seriously? they did that because you can't learn how the jungle feels without going there. stop talking nonsense and throw down the couple of bucks to watch the film before criticizing it on completely nonsense terms. Cameron wanted the viewer to feel like they were there and he did so on a ridiculous level. that is what this film was about and having the creators be there first is the first step to making that possible. obviously.

 

[.xbuzzybeex.]

i'd never seen anything 3d before and i hadn't heard much about this film b4 i saw it

but omg, sooo pretty! felt like a legal trip at times

altho must say the 3d adverts b4 the film were pretty awesome aswell, cadburys cocoa bean head advert was mind blowing and the advert for alice and wonderland...

lovelllly film, you have to see it!

xxx

 

[.xbuzzybeex.]

and there are soooo deep meanings!

this storyline has happened so many times in this world! where people obsessed with greed have taken over and destroyed hundreds of years of culture!

this film is beautiful

 

[LoveAlways]

The movie was spectacular and was the best money I've spent on going to the theater in 27 years. The vision of the director was amazing and when I left, I felt saddened that I had to leave a world that captivated me. I don't even know how to express the experience in words other than to say it was beautiful and remarkable.

exactly how i felt!!

 

[Futon]

I liked it ok. It was a bit long and a bit slow at first though in my opinion, although the ending made up for it a bit. I really liked how original it was.

 

[BlueFractal]

I really liked how original it was.

haha, that's a first

 

[AmorRoark]

lol I'm very, very sure lots of way more retarded things happened on that movie set and on every other movie set ever.

I KNOW... if you read my post I made the concession that dumb things as such happen all the time. I just thought the way he bragged about it was in poor taste.

 

[L2R]

yeah, avatar was neither original nor deep. it had pretty animation, but that's it. cameron said that he wanted michael beihn in it, but didn't want it to be confused with aliens. yeah, right, with michelle rodriguez, sigourney weaver, and giovanni ribisi channeling the same character paul reiser did in aliens, the lack of beihn made no difference.

whiste lame in some parts, the story was not as full of holes as some claim. they could have done so much more with the "i see you" idea. the protagonist went from "not seeing her" to "seeing her" with no real revelation or growth. all the good stuff is already done by the first third of the film's runtime.

the sequel they're talking about is supposed to be set on the planet the moon from the first film was set on orbits. yeah, it was the moon, remember? i'm indifferent about whether it happens or not.

not great. not shit. worth the price of admission.

 

[AmorRoark]

The movie was spectacular and was the best money I've spent on going to the theater in 27 years. The vision of the director was amazing and when I left, I felt saddened that I had to leave a world that captivated me. I don't even know how to express the experience in words other than to say it was beautiful and remarkable. You must see it in IMAX 3D! :D

Anybody who didn't like it or feels compelled to criticize it is not somebody I care to ever have contact with. Critics love to hear themselves talk and think that bringing something down makes them better. The irony is that they are the ones losing out because this movie was absolutely stunning.

lol seriously? they did that because you can't learn how the jungle feels without going there. stop talking nonsense and throw down the couple of bucks to watch the film before criticizing it on completely nonsense terms. Cameron wanted the viewer to feel like they were there and he did so on a ridiculous level. that is what this film was about and having the creators be there first is the first step to making that possible. obviously.

No, the irony is that after you said you don't want to ever have contact with people who criticize or didn't like the movie you quote and respond to me. I think it's equally ridiculous that you wouldn't want to speak to someone who simply didn't enjoy a movie as much as you did. Dramatic, no? 8)

I saw the movie at my partners request. I saw it in 3-D IMAX and didn't pay for it. The first 30 minutes - 1 hour were visually very pretty, obviously. I would hope if you give anyone that much dough they'd be able to make a sparkly pretty gem. He did it. Con-grad-u-fucking-lations.

The plot was awful. Distractingly awful. The dialogue was even worse. Seriously. "TRAUMA KIT!!!!" I was literally baffled at how bad some of the dialogue was throughout the film.

This is not meant as an insult but were you on some sort of substances while you saw this? I seriously ask because I'd probably like the film more if I was high somehow at the time.

Re: My annoyance at the Cameron Hawaii bragging - I think it's ridiculous to send an entire crew to Hawaii in order for them to do their jobs better. I'm pretty sure Jack Lemmon never had to go through a traumatic alcoholic relationship in order to do his stunning role in The Days of Wine and Roses. Then again it wasn't all sparkly and 3D and full of floating tree seeds so maybe you wouldn't find it 'stunning'. I don't know.

I prefer a great plot and good dialogue to eye-candy. That's just my preference. I guess I'll expect you not to talk to me anymore though, right?

 

[L2R]

^http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfNNy4U9deY