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Im seeing it tmrw.
I AM SO EFFING EXCITED. I dont even mind it being 3 hours because i grew up watching 3 hour bollywood movies. But IM PUMPED. Never been this excited for a movie since my obsession with the pirates trilogy.
It was great but I had to piss since the beginning so I ended up rushing out the last 20 minutes. I ended up going to see it a second time just to see the ending. Never buy those massive 5 dollar waters right before a movie.
3D hurts your eyes. But yeah, awesome.
snowhamster said: I @#%)ing LOVED Avatar. The entire plot is rather simple really, OUTER SPACE ALIENS FIGHT FOR THEIR LAAAAND, but James Cameron took that simple idea and made it into this kick-ass movie that I cannot get out of my head.
I’m satisfied with the actors chosen, such as the person for Jake Sully. I read that the director was specifically looking for a fresh face that wasn’t all that well known…and I’m glad he did. Sam Worthington did a great job for someone who had never done any major movies. And the chick that played Trudy, Michelle Rodriguez? Completely fit the personality of the character.
My eyes were glistening for the entire last hour of the movie.@Lithy: Zomg. That part I had chills. I’m getting chills remember it too 😮 When Jake rides in on the Toruk, all the Na’vi are like “HOLY SHIT” and all the audience in the theater were like “HOLY SHIT”
And yuh. Avatar was supposed to have been released in 1999, but Cameron wanted technology to catch up. And when it did 10 years later..SHABLAMF KICK-ASS MOVIE!!!~
Good thing he waited too, because I’d have been 3 years old and the graphics would be little stick people colored blue.The subject matter of Imperialism is almost its own genre at this point. There’s been so much stuff about it (Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness, Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, etc.). While the story is pretty predictable and the message simple, that’s not what it’s about. You guys have heard me say it before: every story has been done before. It’s not the story you tell; it’s how you tell it. I thought this one was told phenomenally well. Normally what happens with these movies/books is they’ll try to get you to understand the culture and use something else with it to make the point about Imperialism. With Heart of Darkness, it’s the incredible symbolism and parallels. With Speaker for the Dead (part of the Ender’s Game series), it’s a family’s trauma that’s connected with the fate of a world and its natives. However, Avatar focuses entirely on bringing the world and its people to life, and because of the combination of a well flushed-out world and the revolutionary new technology used (seriously, go watch some “Making Of” videos, it’s amazing) it works completely. Everyone who watches the movie feels like Pandora really exists and they were just there. The other stroke of genius for me was the whole network system. You see the idea of a circle of life and interconnectedness in a lot of native cultures (and books/movies within this genre as a result), but it’s always just a system of beliefs. It’s never any more than some religious outlook. However, with Avatar, that connection is real. I think it really helps the audience see the value of the world and its “circle of life.” I’m not sure if I’ve ever read or watched something that allowed the audience to understand this message quite as clearly as Avatar did.
@Dustin: What you’re referring to is an effect called “strobing.” While 24 frames per second is exactly what you want for most films (since that’s speed our eye views things at), it doesn’t work for 3D. When things move, particularly when they’re close to the lens, it looks jittery to our eyes because the depth can’t adjust quick enough at that speed. Unfortunately, the technology isn’t there yet for 60FPS 3D, but hopefully it will be by the time the next movie in the trilogy is created.
He said he’d like to do a trilogy if this one made some money. It’s already over 620 million in two weeks, and it’s on pace to be the second highest grossing movie of all time, possibly even the first. So yeah, I’m pretty sure it’ll make them some money.
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He said he’d like to do a trilogy if this one made some money. It’s already over 620 million in two weeks, and it’s on pace to be the second highest grossing movie of all time, possibly even the first. So yeah, I’m pretty sure it’ll make them some money.
Ojeez but nothing will beat Titanic! o:
The trilogy is going to be delicious.
I BETTER LIVE TO SEE THE ENTIRE DAMN TRILOGY OR MY GHOSTY WILL FOREVER BE SAD.So I just saw the movie, and OMGOMDGOGMODGJIEGHILHG
My jaw was dropped the entire time. I didn’t even get why people said the story sucked because for such a simple idea, it was told so well. The battle scenes were epic for one, I love good an amazing fight scene. 😛
The soundtrack was also brilliant. Everything just fit together so perfectly. The cast was excellent too. Sully was freaking fine on top of that.
My only issue is that I wish i got there earlier. I was in the 4th row of the theatre T.T
It was meh.
The humans are almost all over the top comicbook evil. The silly parallels to the current wars and issues with the rainforests are obvious and boring. The story… well.. what story? It’s so predictable.
I found the Na’vi pretty unlikeable with their silly religion constantly getting in the way, with a few forced nods at the end hinting that there’s something to it. The doctor’s deathbed admittance to its reality was pretty lame. It was only when the humans went all super evil destroying their massive tree that they start to be tolerable, if only because the humans are shitheads.
The 3D-ness was nice, mostly. The floating seeds were always blurred and royally messed with my eyes, a few other things like hands waving in front of the screen, and people in the foreground also got blurred like this. It kind of worked once you got used to it, but I didn’t feel like it added anything special to the film.
Vusys said: It was meh.The humans are almost all over the top comicbook evil. The silly parallels to the current wars and issues with the rainforests are obvious and boring. The story… well.. what story? It’s so predictable.
I found the Na’vi pretty unlikeable with their silly religion constantly getting in the way, with a few forced nods at the end hinting that there’s something to it. The doctor’s deathbed admittance to its reality was pretty lame. It was only when the humans went all super evil destroying their massive tree that they start to be tolerable, if only because the humans are shitheads.
The 3D-ness was nice, mostly. The floating seeds were always blurred and royally messed with my eyes, a few other things like hands waving in front of the screen, and people in the foreground also got blurred like this. It kind of worked once you got used to it, but I didn’t feel like it added anything special to the film.
That.
+ Nothing pleases Vusys anyways.
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