Did we see the same Avatar...?
What'd you think about Twilight......
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Did we see the same Avatar...?
What'd you think about Twilight......
well he did write it some 16 years ago, putting it before last samurai and even pocahontas. what was titanic? another fucking love story? talk about overdone! sheesh.anyway, i cant wait to see it, you bunch of negative nancys cant get me down. got my imax tickets for tomorrow night!
Dances with Smurfs can kiss my butt.
Avatar in 3D was just sick. Absolutely the most visually entertaining movie I have ever seen. The story was vanilla and boring.
And why would I want to do that? I'm still paying extra money for a movie I can't fully enjoy. ALL forms of 3D that use glasses give me a headache. Whether its the stereoscopic crap or the so-called digital 3D that movies use now days. So why should I pay $12 (plus the cost of soda and popcorn) to watch a movie I won't be able to enjoy when for under $4 I can rent the Blu-Ray when it comes out or buy it for $20.
You need to replace "Dumbfucks" with "liberals". Serously, Hollywood just can't seem to make a movie that doesn't have some simpleminded left wing message that hits you over the head like an anvil. Is a little balance too much to ask? I mean, gray characters are so much more interesting than black and white.but the story, acting, and dialogue, pretty much what really makes a movie - was completely designed for dumbfucks. So, with that being said, James Cameron is a brilliant businessman, because there are literally billions of dumbfucks around that will love lap this shit up.
I"m waiting for it to come out on DVD or Blu Ray since i'm deaf and they don't offer subtitles or captions in theaters
not gonna pay $10 for a ticket + food for a slideshow
Ya know, I bet there is money to be made in having specialized theaters that show subtitled movies for the hearing impaired. At least in bigger cities.
Not in my Top10 movies ever but definitely should fit nicely in my Top20(I'm an artfuck.), but yeah everyone ignores this point. Cameron wrote this in 1994-96 it predates all the repetitive crap that's come out and considering the length and content of the film it was extremely uncompromising and not all kid friendly.
I think the use of the term unobtainium is just slang for "mineral that is almost impossible to get and worth boatloads of money" as opposed to the actual scientific name of whatever fictional material they were looking for. In fact, if you look it up that's pretty much how the name is defined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtanium Cameron just took the word and applied it appropriately so he didn't have to go into exposition about the properties of the stuff and instead just use it as a plot device: We want it, they're in the way, something has got to give. It's the sci-fi equivalent of gold, ivory, jade, diamonds, uranium, etc - whatever is the money mineral of the day that, in the minds of some, is worth uprooting an entire culture over. It's not like that hasn't happened before, so exactly what the mineral does isn't really important to the story, only the fact that it's there.
I realise that. I know unobtanium is an 'unobtainable material'. But if the writers aren't willing to devote the time to come up with a material, even a made up one, with a set of properties and a reason why it is so valued beyond 'it is really really expensive', then it lets the viewer know the actual political and economical situation of the humans isn't important at all.
Perhaps the material could have been a miracle cure to some strange plague that had afflicted almost all of the population of the Earth, and humanity was dying out until they found it. Suddenly that's the only thing that can save them. So it's not a matter of greed anymore, but one of survival. Would give the whole story a different outlook.
However, if you know from the onset that you're being given a caricature of one side, you know the story doesn't really matter so much. It's just a stock story I've seen a thousand times, retold with awesome visuals and effects. And hey, I'll go watch that. But I don't think it's a profound look into the human condition, and any message it has is clearly not going to be well articulated.
Too bad this great CGI is wasted on such a preposterously cliched, liberal guilt trip of a story. "Oh, we humans should feel guilty because we want to wipe out the poor, peaceful space Indians." Bleech.
I realise that. I know unobtanium is an 'unobtainable material'. But if the writers aren't willing to devote the time to come up with a material, even a made up one, with a set of properties and a reason why it is so valued beyond 'it is really really expensive', then it lets the viewer know the actual political and economical situation of the humans isn't important at all.
Perhaps the material could have been a miracle cure to some strange plague that had afflicted almost all of the population of the Earth, and humanity was dying out until they found it. Suddenly that's the only thing that can save them. So it's not a matter of greed anymore, but one of survival. Would give the whole story a different outlook.
However, if you know from the onset that you're being given a caricature of one side, you know the story doesn't really matter so much. It's just a stock story I've seen a thousand times, retold with awesome visuals and effects. And hey, I'll go watch that. But I don't think it's a profound look into the human condition, and any message it has is clearly not going to be well articulated.
The movie is actually pretty well thought out, and amazing amount of thought has gone in to all aspects of the movie
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43440
- A professor of Astrophysics grades the science of Avatar
I didn't knock the science of the movie, other than the floating mountains nothing seemed amiss to me. It's the humans that bothered me.
About the science though, one other thing did bother me, now that I think about it. The guy in the link didn't mention it though. The 'animals' all have six limbs. So why do the Na'Vi only have four?
One of those huh? great. I was kinda wanting to go see it.
You sound like a real deep thinker. Like the type who thinks "hope" and "change" mean something.
Did we see the same Avatar...?
What'd you think about Twilight......
I just got back from seeing this in IMAX 3D. The only way I can explain this movie is that it is like a conscious dream. Your brain knows that its not real because nothing fits anything you are familiar with. But it is so f*cking flawless that your brain is forced to accept it as reality. And the 3D immersion is excellent....I mean that, completely natural.
Drax, and bighirst, thanks for the background information! That adds some depth to the freaky environment. I am corrected. If that were explained in the film through a little exposition, it would have made Pandora even more fascinating and a bit more understandable as to why they had floating rocks beyond the fact that it was some strange electromagnetic anomaly. Then again, I might have missed some background when I saw the film.
For those scientifically inclined, you could surmise that it was a room temperature semiconductor from the fact that it was floating.No, you didn't miss a thing - it was utterly unexplained why anyone cared so much about this mineral, and why it's worth so much money.
Ya know, I bet there is money to be made in having specialized theaters that show subtitled movies for the hearing impaired. At least in bigger cities.
loved this movie. My ass on the other hand went numb. A little too long for sitting @ IMAX.
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