Okay, I FINALLY saw this movie. Btw, I think from now on I will be going to see these movies right when the DVDs come out or shortly after. The theater I went to in downtown toronto (The Scotia bank theater) was my own private theater. There was absolutely no body in there but me. During the movie I was actually running up and down the stairs with my 3D glasses on like a jackass.

The movie itself was surpringly amazing. I expected the 3D to be cheesy and to distract from the movie itself, but it really enhanced the entire experience for me. I was completely absorbed by the story. I admired the lead character and I ended up wanting to bang that blue alien chick in the end. Three hours just flew by for me and I will definitely go see it again.

The plot was really simple. The bad guys even simpler. But I still loved it.

JimSocks

United States968 Posts

May 18 2010 22:21 GMT

#1602

finally saw this movie on dvd too. it was good, but i felt like i was watching dances with wolves in space.

Ganondorf

Italy600 Posts

May 18 2010 22:26 GMT

#1603

On May 19 2010 07:21 JimSocks wrote:
finally saw this movie on dvd too. it was good, but i felt like i was watching dances with wolves in space.

Dancing with smurfs, watch the south park episode :D

From a sci-fi perspective, this film is horrible. Even the title is wrong, since an avatar is a virtual rapresentation of oneself and that thing is more like a hybrid replicant. Models are recycled from other scifi films or even videogames. The story is a linear good vs evil very similar to dancing with wolves. It has the merit of bringing scifi to the masses, but this works only once, becuase even people not interested in scifi will start asking questions and will find out this film makes no sense by the time avatar 2 comes out.

gogogadgetflow

United States2583 Posts

May 18 2010 22:36 GMT

#1604

On May 19 2010 07:21 JimSocks wrote:
finally saw this movie on dvd too. it was good, but i felt like i was watching dances with wolves in space.

When I saw this in theater I couldn't stop thinking Pocahontas. Hopefully this doesn't need explanation.

Manifesto7

Osaka27179 Posts

May 18 2010 22:37 GMT

#1605

Chuiu

3470 Posts

May 18 2010 22:38 GMT

#1606

^
Yup. Just saw the movie and thats exactly what I thought when I was watching it. Its eyecandy only.

gogogadgetflow

United States2583 Posts

May 18 2010 22:40 GMT

#1607

hahaha. exactly what I was thinking lol

condoriano

United States826 Posts

May 18 2010 22:41 GMT

#1608

Because Pocahontas story was an eye candy only. Is that how we came to this conclusion? Amusing.

Anyone has the original screenshot of this Pocahontas essay (btw writted solely for this purpose of humiliating Avatar)? I want to play around so I can literally fit any movie into it.

GGTeMpLaR

United States7226 Posts

May 18 2010 22:45 GMT

#1609

On May 19 2010 07:26 Ganondorf wrote:

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I've gotta disagree with you, if anything this proved how powerful the sci-fi epic genre can be. The film makes perfect sense except for a few tiny mistakes that most people wouldn't even notice unless they read about it.

Foreplay

United States1154 Posts

May 18 2010 22:45 GMT

#1610

anyone else think the na'vi kinda sucked the first time all those tanks rolled in? The Ewoks would've held that shit down.

condoriano

United States826 Posts

May 18 2010 22:48 GMT

#1611

On May 19 2010 07:45 GGTeMpLaR wrote:

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People like Ganondorf won't be able to name one movie that doesn't have these inconsistencies. It's called attention whoring and it's really popular these days. People don't realize that it's way cooler to not bitch about Avatar because every douchebag has already bitched about it.

Divinek

Canada4045 Posts

May 18 2010 22:51 GMT

#1612

On May 19 2010 07:48 condoriano wrote:

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Pretty much true, it's always so cool to bitch about something that's hyped and amazing. Fuck the haters. Money speaks louder than worrrrrrds.

IrT4nkz

229 Posts

May 18 2010 22:51 GMT

#1613

When I saw it, I didn't see what is so good about it. Maybe the reviewers saw a handicapped dude controlling a blue dude, OMFG IT'S AWSOME..... and it's 3D? :|

But seriously, the only reason why I watched it was because other people said it was good and it had 3D effects. Disappointment IMO.

And LOL, it really resembles the essay posted above.

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts

May 18 2010 23:09 GMT

#1614

Whoa what this thread is still going?
I agree with the Ewok comment above, those li'l bears are the shit.

Gigaudas

Sweden1213 Posts

May 18 2010 23:15 GMT

#1615

I haven't seen Pocahontas or Dancing with wolves and Avatar blew me away

Good thing I guess.

Mystlord

United States10264 Posts

May 18 2010 23:18 GMT

#1616

I didn't like Avatar really. I appreciate the effort of all the artists who did the CG, but the plot itself was uninspiring and bland.

il0seonpurpose

Korea (South)5638 Posts

May 18 2010 23:25 GMT

#1617

I thought the concept of putting your mind into an avatar was pretty cool but that's about it

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 18 2010 23:29 GMT

#1618

STILL haven't seen it.

TrueIsAwesome

Finland160 Posts

May 18 2010 23:30 GMT

#1619

I got accused of seeing the movie before-hand when i guessed the whole storyline 15 minutes in the movie. The movie is ok, but god damnit it's way overrated

Slow Motion

United States6960 Posts

May 18 2010 23:32 GMT

#1620

The story was simple and unoriginal, but that itself doesn't destroy the movie. What did was that the acting sucked, the dialogue was terrible (and maybe contributed to the bad acting, to be fair to the actors), and the plot and characters were poorly developed. Sorry to be a "bitch" and "hater" but this is a thread to discuss the movie and I genuinely did not enjoy it.