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[Mardeth]

Avatar avatar? No wai.

What about mine??? Its avatar of a avatar of avatar!

 

[Crono]

I'll wait 6 months to watch it. I hate watching a movie right after hearing hype. I'm always disappointed at least a little, even if the movie is good.

 

[Arkaign]

lol @ haters

I'll be enjoying this in 3D IMAX. Enjoy not doing that.

I'm going to see 'Crazy Heart' instead, which looks to be possibly a crowning achievement for Jeff Bridges.

I don't want to see a Sci-Fi movie if the plot and characters are terrible. FX is not enough for me to like a film.

 

[BlackTigers]

im going to go see it for the fighting scenes, they look bad ass.

 

[BrownTown]

TBH I really can't get excited for a movie that has humans as the BAD guys. I just don't feal like I should be cheering for aliens to kill humans. I'm going to go see it obviously though for the special effects, but the plot will probably annoy me a bit. Its just another movie like Transformers, its fun to watch once, but that's it.

On another note, maybe as I get older i am getting more conservative, but alot of the movies coming out these days seem to have liberal plots which annoy me. Like when all of the bad guys in all of the movies are big business or the military?

 

[TridenT]

Avatar on RT: 91% (Dec. 14)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/district_9/

District 9 got 90% and I still dislike the movie...

Not going to see Avatar in theaters... Maybe never. It doesn't even look interesting.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Are you going to see the Normal or 3D version?

 

[sandorski]

I hope you're aware the adult theaters you normally frequent are going to be showing Anatar!

fixed

 

[Terzo]

TBH I really can't get excited for a movie that has humans as the BAD guys. I just don't feal like I should be cheering for aliens to kill humans. I'm going to go see it obviously though for the special effects, but the plot will probably annoy me a bit. Its just another movie like Transformers, its fun to watch once, but that's it.

On another note, maybe as I get older i am getting more conservative, but alot of the movies coming out these days seem to have liberal plots which annoy me. Like when all of the bad guys in all of the movies are big business or the military?

This is another qualm I have. Movies like that are just as bad as the ones that glamorize our military as infallible heroes. I feel like Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai (the two movies I liken Avatar to the most) at least had a more neutral and plausible ending. I don't expect this with Avatar. I reckon it'll be a stereotypical "good guys triumph" ending.

I think I'm just frustrated that they spend nearly a decade waiting for technology to mature and then four additional years filming, and the cocksuckers decide to attach this revolutionary cinematic experience to a hackneyed story. Shit, it would've been much better if they used this technology to do a montage of great fights from cinematic history.

 

[0roo0roo]

Revision 3's the totally rad show chimes in
http://revision3.com/trs/gamechanger
positive. they were skeptical from the trailers and comicon preview but i guess the film convinced them it was pretty good.

 

[GTaudiophile]

In other news, Avatar has received Golden Globe nominations for...

Best Motion Picture Drama and Best Director Motion Picture and Best Original Score (James Horner).

The Best Motion Picture Drama nominees are...

AVATAR
THE HURT LOCKER (Seen it. Worth the nomination.)
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Seen it. Worth the nomination.)
PRECIOUS
UP IN THE AIR

 

[Fingolfin269]

This is another qualm I have. Movies like that are just as bad as the ones that glamorize our military as infallible heroes. I feel like Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai (the two movies I liken Avatar to the most) at least had a more neutral and plausible ending. I don't expect this with Avatar. I reckon it'll be a stereotypical "good guys triumph" ending.

I think I'm just frustrated that they spend nearly a decade waiting for technology to mature and then four additional years filming, and the cocksuckers decide to attach this revolutionary cinematic experience to a hackneyed story. Shit, it would've been much better if they used this technology to do a montage of great fights from cinematic history.

I think you have your time line right but the points backwards. The story came first.

 

[Zebo]

I don't really dig the whole "colonization is bad" theme but I'll take the boys despite PC.

 

[Beev]

One of my friends invited me to go with her, so I'll end up seeing it after all. I'm going into it unbiased, but with low expectations so we'll see

 

[PottedMeat]

Hmm see it in a regular theater - < 10 miles away for $4.50, vs. IMAX 3D >40 miles away for $14...

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

After seeing the 15 minute Imax 3d preview a few months ago, I don't think I could watch it in 2d.

 

[JDub02]

if it wasn't for the 3D aspect, i'd be waiting to watch it at home. this looks like a great one to see in the theaters, though. looking forward to it.

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James Cameron’s “Avatar” may be the most expensive movie ever made – but you see every cent of it up on the screen.
It’s an exciting movie with a strong emotional core, built around a story of Earthlings trying to strip-mine a different planet. But an Earth soldier (Sam Worthington), whose mind has been projected into the body of one of the planet’s natives, finds himself siding with the aliens in their struggle against the human invaders.
Cameron breaks barriers and stretches the envelope in terms of turning imagination into on-screen images, with a fantastic computer-generated world that’s CG from the biggest beast to the smallest blade of grass.
It’s the season’s must-see movie.
* * * * * *
6 out of 6 Stars

Review

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Hmm see it in a regular theater - < 10 miles away for $4.50, vs. IMAX 3D >40 miles away for $14...

Yeah, similar situation here but IMAX 3D=2 hour drive (Akron/Canton OH to Columbus OH). I think I'll just deal with the regular theater for now, and maybe plan a trip to one before it leaves IMAX if I like the one.

 

[JDub02]

Yeah, similar situation here but IMAX 3D=2 hour drive (Akron/Canton OH to Columbus OH). I think I'll just deal with the regular theater for now, and maybe plan a trip to one before it leaves IMAX if I like the one.

there's not a theater around you showing it in the RealD 3D? I plan on seeing it that way instead of IMAX. I'm not a big fan of the huge IMAX screen.

RealD Theater Locater

 

[trmiv]

there's not a theater around you showing it in the RealD 3D? I plan on seeing it that way instead of IMAX. I'm not a big fan of the huge IMAX screen.

RealD Theater Locater

This is what I'm trying to decide. We want to see it on Christmas, and there is a place showing it in IMAX (a museum type place, so a real IMAX screen), and another in Digital 3D. I can't decide which to see. We saw The Dark Knight in IMAX and the screen was so huge it was really a bit distracting. So maybe a regular sized screen is better.

 

[Adrenaline]

I honestly don't get the hype at all, I'm with you. This movie just look really terrible to me. I'm willing to admit I'm wrong if it turns out good, but I'm not paying to see it at a cinema.

This movie was made to be seen at the theater. I can agree that it looks like a rental at times BUT this guy does a tremendous job with movies making them very very very enjoyable to see at the theater.

The plan so far is to see this with my brother on Friday.

 

[pcslookout]

This movie was made to be seen at the theater. I can agree that it looks like a rental at times BUT this guy does a tremendous job with movies making them very very very enjoyable to see at the theater.

The plan so far is to see this with my brother on Friday.

Yep just like Titanic. The only film I was able to see in Theaters from James Cameron I hope one day I can see Aliens, Terminator and Terminator 2 Judgement Day in the theater!

 

[zerocool84]

Ugg 3-D is just a stupid gimmick. No reason to drive hours out of your way when you can see it regular in a theater close by.

 

[Cheeseplug]

Ever since seeing the first trailer for this movie, I have never once had any interest at all in seeing this movie. Nothing about it makes me want to see it.

 

[KeithTalent]

Ugg 3-D is just a stupid gimmick. No reason to drive hours out of your way when you can see it regular in a theater close by.

I agree with you, but every theatre around here is going to be showing it in 3D as far as I can see, so I don't think I will even have a choice. :\

KT