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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:19 am    Post subject: Was Avatar any good? Reply with quote

I don't like blue people, so I didn't go see it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The movie itself was awful, special effects were fucking crazy.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The consensus seems to be that the visual effects are jaw-dropping, although the story is a rather pedestrian, done-it-a-hundred-times affair.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And then James was a racist
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/5-second-movies/15506-ep144

Pocahontas + Dances with wolves + Ferngully = Avatar.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Brianhjh"]Pocahontas + Dances with wolves + Ferngully = Avatar.[/quote]
You forgot Smurfs Rolling eyes That joke's been done a hundred times ever since the first info about it was released....
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

]; My friends told me the movie was breathtakingly amazing. Even the plot was good. What about it was so terrible? I haven't watched it yet, but I have a feeling I would still like it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kind of what Brianhjh said, the plot echoes themes of Dances With Wolves / Last Samurai / Fern Gully / Pocahontas / etc. any story where the spiritual Noble Savages are being terrorized by Evil Human Invaders, the MC is on the latter side initially but ultimately chooses to side with the Noble Savages.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote]What about it was so terrible?[/quote]

I never liked them BLUE people.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My brother said the SAME thing when it came to it being fernguly. Way before anyone else for a fact. (If he would get off his lazy butt and join up he could prove so Dx)

However people do like the movie. I read this in Monday's newspaper in the 'around the world news' section.

[b]'Avatar' rules with $68.3 M[/b]
Los Angeles (AP) - James Cameron's science fiction epic "Avatar" had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domestically, shooting past $1 billion world wide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.

No. 1 for the third-straight weekend, 20th Century Fox's "Avatar" raised it's domestic total to $352.1 million after just 17 days.

My opinion on the movie -shrug- didnt see it but I have seen Fernguly so I would know what is going to happen probly.
It's no Titanic that's for sure.
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Who cares if the story line was similar to other ones. If you look at any movie you will find that it has similarities to others.

i think it definetly beats titanic any day. besides it's by the same director. Maybe it's because it's the fact that the director is canadian for a change.

Avater was the best movie I have ever seen. The graphics, plot, music everything was great. And obviously it's very good because it is the best movie so far by means of box office.

And don't try to start an argument with me.

... 'Cause ya ain't gonna get one.
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

James Cameron is probably the best director in the business today. His works are very mainstream, but... that's the point of the movie business. I'm watching Alien 2 and Abyss today, and I also liked True Lies, Terminator 2 and Titanic. James Cameron made something like 3 trillion from his movies so far.

Only thing that's keeping me away from watching Avatar is that it's motion capture animation, and they creep me out.
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was a cool moive, and extremely entertaining.

So essentially it did its job, but it did seem like ive herd the story before when I watched it the first time at the theater.
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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

as a native american i could not help but see the similarities to dances with wolves. but i thought it was good if not very predictable.

.....sho was pretty though.
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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought it was awesome. Just the graphics and everything were amazing. Also the whole thing with being able to be in a different body was cool.
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="SILK"]as a native american i could not help but see the similarities to dances with wolves. but i thought it was good if not very predictable.

.....sho was pretty though.[/quote]

What the fuck does being a native american have to do with knowing Dances With Wolves?
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="SILK"]as a native american i could not help but see the similarities to dances with wolves. but i thought it was good if not very predictable.

.....sho was pretty though.[/quote]

How many days of the week do you wear a headdress?
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i seen dances with wolves, cause im native and i have seen lots of movies with natives in it.
basically cause my people are hardly represented in popular media so when they are we take notice(i yet to meet a native who has not seen smoke signals).

headdress??

2 things wrong with that assumption.

1. im not a plains Indian I'm Ottawa (woodland Indian) generally they did not wear those types of headdress.

2. im not a fucking Chief or Medicine Man so why would i wear one.

hopefully one day people wont be completely ignorant when it comes to my people.
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Pyrodragon125"]What the $&#* does being a native american have to do with knowing Dances With Wolves?[/quote]
Apart from the fact that he's better prepared to identify where the Natives' portrayal in Dances With Wolves does, and does not, match up with real-life American natives?

Nothing, and leave it at that. Many people have already compared Avatar to such works as Dances With Wolves / Last Samurai / Pocahontas / Fern Gully / (etc.), it's nothing new.
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, but it's James Cameron, and everything he touches turns into gold.

Never mind the fact that it's the first mainstream blockbuster to be seen in 3D and planned to be released in the new 3D format, this is a big deal.
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