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DyEnasTy
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3720 Posts
January 01 2010 04:00 GMT
#1021
On January 01 2010 11:40 BanZu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2009 22:22 Archerofaiur wrote:
On December 31 2009 17:38 keepITup wrote:
For such a long movie, it's weird how depressed you get when it ends.

I mean you walk out back to your car and it's just like, "real life is so dull..."



I wish real life was 3D....

I wish real life involved dangerous yet exciting adventures...



Sure there are. Like you unzip a hot girls pants, and random things come flying out.
Much better to die an awesome Terran than to live as a magic wielding fairy or a mindless sac of biological goop. -Manifesto7
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-01 04:42:10
January 01 2010 04:41 GMT
#1022
This does not feel like a movie. This is just really an experience. Very epic, I enjoyed a lot.
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
Kleander
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States334 Posts
January 01 2010 04:48 GMT
#1023
biggest liberal propaganda campaign ever, complete with your tree hugging, séance chanting, anti-war, "everything has a spirit, man" clichés that make any self-loving, god-fearing republican want to vomit.

+ Show Spoiler +
and i loved every minute of it
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. 지지 Guess who's learning Korean
ShcShc
Profile Joined October 2006
Canada912 Posts
January 01 2010 12:26 GMT
#1024
On January 01 2010 13:48 Kleander wrote:
biggest liberal propaganda campaign ever, complete with your tree hugging, séance chanting, anti-war, "everything has a spirit, man" clichés that make any self-loving, god-fearing republican want to vomit.

+ Show Spoiler +
and i loved every minute of it


haha that got me.
God DAJNFBGHSfIDSHUKLFHSGUIO! -Jinro
btx0
Profile Joined December 2009
Germany184 Posts
January 01 2010 14:13 GMT
#1025
I saw it in 3D this week and thought it was very good. Just a few exceptions:

I missed a modern antagonist. That over the top military doom toon was really tacky, I would have liked a serious version of the corporate guy to be the focus.

I didn't like Trudy either, it was like they cut her out of S.W.A.T.

The horses look stupid. ^^
duckhunt
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada311 Posts
January 02 2010 01:00 GMT
#1026
it was amazing, i will watch it again =]
[Azn]Nada
Profile Joined April 2009
United States275 Posts
January 02 2010 01:47 GMT
#1027
Pocahontas with twenty feet blue people. Graphics were killer though
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 02:01:08
January 02 2010 02:00 GMT
#1028
really awesome
saw it in 3d and it was actually worth seeing in 3d

and i thought the evil military guy was hilarious. sseriously he was so badass lol
MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 02:14:59
January 02 2010 02:07 GMT
#1029
edit: too many thoughts in my post: some of them strongly opinionated, and we all know the futility of trying to convince anyone of anything on the internet. Why bother.

Turn of brain, watch movie
Whiplash
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States2929 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 02:13:08
January 02 2010 02:12 GMT
#1030
This movie was thought of years and years before the war in iraq... and taking land from people for resources has been done time and time over throughout history.

edit: this was a response to MamiyaOtaru
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MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
January 02 2010 02:22 GMT
#1031
On January 02 2010 11:12 Whiplash wrote:
This movie was thought of years and years before the war in iraq... and taking land from people for resources has been done time and time over throughout history.

I agree. It happens, and is terrible. It shouldn't happen. I'm fine witha movie making thoise points. My problem with Avatar was that so many of the bad guys' one liners and attitudes weren't obviously (I thought) meant to evoke the current "War on Terror", which while a mistake and problematic, is to me a separate issue. As you say, the movie was conceived before Iraq and deals with problems that were around before Iraq. That being so, I thought the movie ould have done without the obvious callouts to the situation in Iraq.

But I'm probably retarded. And this is Why I edited out my post
Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 03:52:19
January 02 2010 03:17 GMT
#1032
I wanted to add a quote I read in a recent New Yorker article. I think it is very appropriate to this discussion and speaks of just what it means to be a critic and just what standards you define as a "great" film. When Titanic first came out the critics bashed it as a shallow love story. Titanic appeared to be a disaster, the most over budget film ever made at that time. Fox thought that they would lose millions even if the film exceeded thier wildest expectations.


The film then went on to win countless awards and continues to be the highest grossing film of all time at 1.8 Billion Dollars!

One critic, Kenny Turan, continued to write scathing reviews even as it became a cinematic phenomenon. Among the many "hate mail" he recieved was a teenage girl who stappled multiple Titanic tickets to the letter to show how many times she had been to see the movie. Later Cameron issued his own response to Kenny
Poor Kenny. He sees himself as the lone voice crying in the wilderness, righteous but not heeded by the blind and dumb 'great unwashed' around him. It must be a great burden to be cursed with such clear vision when your misguided flock bray past you, like lemmings, unmindful."
-James Cameron

He later said this about critics and Titanic (I should add that Cameron, genius though he may be, is aparently not the most likable guy)
We were branded as the biggest idiots in movie history. They were just sharpening their knives so they could really take the film apart. Then they couldn't. So, fuck them. Fuck 'em all.
-James Cameron



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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
January 02 2010 03:24 GMT
#1033
On January 02 2010 11:00 travis wrote:
really awesome
saw it in 3d and it was actually worth seeing in 3d

and i thought the evil military guy was hilarious. sseriously he was so badass lol


definitely almost necessary to see in 3D

i thought the pilot girl was badass
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
keepITup
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
251 Posts
January 02 2010 04:20 GMT
#1034
On January 02 2010 12:17 Archerofaiur wrote:
I wanted to add a quote I read in a recent New Yorker article. I think it is very appropriate to this discussion and speaks of just what it means to be a critic and just what standards you define as a "great" film. When Titanic first came out the critics bashed it as a shallow love story. Titanic appeared to be a disaster, the most over budget film ever made at that time. Fox thought that they would lose millions even if the film exceeded thier wildest expectations.


The film then went on to win countless awards and continues to be the highest grossing film of all time at 1.8 Billion Dollars!

One critic, Kenny Turan, continued to write scathing reviews even as it became a cinematic phenomenon. Among the many "hate mail" he recieved was a teenage girl who stappled multiple Titanic tickets to the letter to show how many times she had been to see the movie. Later Cameron issued his own response to Kenny
Show nested quote +
Poor Kenny. He sees himself as the lone voice crying in the wilderness, righteous but not heeded by the blind and dumb 'great unwashed' around him. It must be a great burden to be cursed with such clear vision when your misguided flock bray past you, like lemmings, unmindful."
-James Cameron

He later said this about critics and Titanic (I should add that Cameron, genius though he may be, is aparently not the most likable guy)
Show nested quote +
We were branded as the biggest idiots in movie history. They were just sharpening their knives so they could really take the film apart. Then they couldn't. So, fuck them. Fuck 'em all.
-James Cameron





this makes me wonder how he'd respond to the Avatar criticism.

Critic: “Mr.Cameron, your movie had beautiful visuals and featured a compelling setting with a simple, yet powerful message. However, your characters failed to be anything more than cliché caricatures and the plot felt too familiar, so I had to take points off.”

Director: “I’m glad you enjoyed my movie and I understand I made some mistakes with writing the characters. My plot wasn’t very original and I apologize for that as well. These are elements I hope to improve upon in my future projects.”

yeah right =p
zoLo
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States5896 Posts
January 02 2010 09:40 GMT
#1035
I don't know why, but James Cameron reminds me of Michael Bay a little in terms of being an asshole sometimes. Bay is known to be a jackass because he sees Transformers as "his" and was about to sue Terminator Salvation for using giant robots because Bay said that they were copying from him. Then there's Cameron who pretty much said fuck you to a fan that wanted him to sign his Avatar poster.
ShcShc
Profile Joined October 2006
Canada912 Posts
January 02 2010 12:32 GMT
#1036
The fan wasn't really a fan.
It was more like someone who is there to embarass James Cameron and make him seem more like an asshole.
God DAJNFBGHSfIDSHUKLFHSGUIO! -Jinro
Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
January 02 2010 21:55 GMT
#1037
The same new yorker article i read said all directors have a god complex.
http://sclegacy.com/news/28-scl/250-starcraftlegacy-macro-theorycrafting-contest-winners
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
January 03 2010 03:11 GMT
#1038
It will be interesting to see if it tops the Dark Knight domestically, it is certainly inching towards 1 billion global though.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Foreplay
Profile Joined May 2008
United States1154 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-03 03:22:28
January 03 2010 03:22 GMT
#1039
i like that they made the politcal messege so blatently obvious so you could just sit back and enjoy the movie.
Better than Pokebunny
heroyi
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1064 Posts
January 03 2010 03:47 GMT
#1040
this movie had so many aspect of Pocahontas (time correlation huh??) general, the avatar guy, the tribe=indians. spirit tree=mother earth willow tree etc...

this wasnt as bad as i thought. i thought it was gonna be like a michael bay film where shitty story (which it kinda did) and nice visual. idk if he deserves all those nominations imo
wat wat in my pants
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