James Cameron's Avatar

[CaptHayfever]

^^Another reason 3D isn't the future of cinema: People who don't have proper binocular vision (including anyone who's cross-eyed) literally can't see the effect. At all.
2D films are watchable by anyone who's sighted, but not 3D.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Bomby]

My other problem with the current 3D in movies is that realistic (and in my opinion, more aesthetically pleasing) 3D would have objects seeming to recede further within the screen, not popping out of it. I'm not completely anti-3D technology, but at the moment I don't think it's very good and I feel like it's developing in the wrong direction.

That being said, it has made leaps and bounds.

[t3hDarkness]

I wasn't interested in watching Avatar until the Pope's spokesmansaid something against it.
If the pope hates it, it has to be cool, like wild orgies and devil music, right.
I get the feeling I'm going to be disappointed.

[Bomby]

Actually, the Vatican just thought it was boring. Better article here:

Vatican calls 'Avatar' bland - Telegraph

[t3hDarkness]

I was stretching for anything to discuss.

[Valigarmander]

The Vatican reviews movies now?

When are they gonna start holding video game tournaments?

[CaptHayfever]

^They've reviewed movies for decades, mostly for moral screening. They just usually don't get major press about it because they haven't given a billion-dollar film a negative review until now.

If the pope hates it, it has to be cool, like wild orgies and devil music, right.
I get the feeling I'm going to be disappointed.

The pope hates genocide.
You just got served.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Valigarmander]

Guess which film just became the highest-grossing movie of all time?

I'll give you a hint. This film and the last record-holder were both directed by the same guy.

[Bomby]

^ That's great. Now adjust for inflation.

[Valigarmander]

Well, it'll probably end up at the top eventually. It's barely been out for a month in the US.

[Bomby]

Unfortunately, unlike other, smarter box offices, the US only measures dollars and not sheer number of admissions, which is often a more useful way to measure success.

[Deepfake]

^ Yeah, admissions make a big difference, especially when the price of admission gets jacked up further every so often, inflation or not.

Saw this flic, btw. I think you'd have to be a making a big assumption to say the film makes any allegorical statements about Americans, or anything, really. I'd say it was a dirt-stupid action plot, but it was no Transformers 2. One thing I've got to say: how many times can Hollywood re-use the same crappy character archetypes? But, I digress. This film was scripted in the 90's. It has a 90's plot. There is literally nothing new here, but it is nowhere near as bad as the most recent action flics - this is a film that had half-decent pacing and a clear focus the whole way through. It's Jurassic Park level story-telling. The characters deal well with some rather lame story concepts, and there's a lot of running through jungles, but it's all blatantly setup because someone needed a plot.

All the same, there is one thing I have seriously got to say: Where is the imagination? Or even just the logic? Avatar seems to have gotten the two mixed up. The comment about the rhinos fighting mechs. It is what I am talking about here. There were literally no new ideas for wildlife or anything you'd associate with concept building. Some idiot literally just said "HEY IF WE HAD THIS CAT, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY A CAT..." for basically everything in the film.

And here's some HEAVY food for thought, that makes the film totally unbelievable: Body language, and form. Sure, the aliens have tails and senselessly huge scilia sprouting from their hair. They are blue, because, well, apparently they're blue for the **** of it. Their bodies are the same proportions as humans, though. Big eyes? Yeah, fine. But their arm-to height, everything, it's identical. Their gate is identical, even with a tail. Their body language, though, that's where we really hit a wall. These are totally alien life forms, and they have identical body language to western-style human culture? I don't buy it. Anyone with half a brain should have seen why that was just out-and-out beyond unlikely.

[Bomby]

We saw a commercial with Michael Phelps after we watched Avatar and noticed a striking similarity in body type.

[Valigarmander]

^^ Next, rant about Klingons.

[Bomby]

My cinematography professor gave the best breakdown of Avatar's plot on Thursday:

"We want what's under the tree, so we have to get the blue people off of the tree. So one guy becomes one of the blue people, and then decided he likes them better, so now we want to keep the humans from destroying the tree."

[Deepfake]

^^ Next, rant about Klingons.

Klingons aren't a recent invention. You're comparing technology with an absence of technology. Wut. I don't even.

Also, Star Trek blows.

[Valigarmander]

BUT

BUT

KLINGONS

[Greenmarioman]

[Booyakasha]

Anyone see the RedLetterMedia review for 'Avatar'?

You should check it out at Youtube. It's funny. Like, really f*cked up, but funny nonetheless.

[heh]

you know what other movie is like pocahantas

return of the jedi thats what. owned. you've been betrayed by ewoks