Reverend Jax Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 This movie was... SICK!!! Believe the hype. 300 Million dollars well spent. Fanboy euphoria. Watch it, in IMAX, in 3D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 OK, a little more detail. First, the mediocre: The story, characters, and dialogue was all cookie cutter, ham-handed, heavy-handed, and cliched. There was no suspense. You saw everything coming from a million miles away. A completely predictable off-the-shelf by-the-book allegorical epic. But the movie wasn't trying to do anything other than that. It wasn't trying to be complex or nuanced, it didn't try to give you unexpected character developments, and it wanted to be a story we've seen a million times before. It a sense, it was not trying to be ambitious in the plot/character/dialogue department, but a straight forward story allowing your focus to stay fixed on the movie's strengths, and when it comes to those strengths, let me be clear: Believe the hype! For most of the film, there are entirely CGI, 10 foot tall blue aliens on the screen. For maybe half (or maybe more), these blue aliens are the only characters on screen, and you are totally immersed. If you allow yourself, if you are not dead set on taking yourself out of the moment, you will see the Na'vi as real. You will see Pandora as real. The battles incredible, and settings are incredible, and it is a fantastic experience for anyone that likes movies. Do yourself a favor, spend the extra money and drive the extra distance to see this on IMAX in 3D. You have to experience this world in full effect because that is what this movie is about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Jax is right. Believe the hype and see it in IMAX 3D! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargstone Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Man, this movie was just like Shrek. 2/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalHeart Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 I heard it was poop. y/n? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WacoTexas Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 It's like Ferngully with less pixies. Fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 wait...did we really not have an Avatar thread prior? i know jax had his meetup one, cant find another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Avatar is a giant movie-shaped cliche. But damned if it wasn't pretty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Avatar sucked a bag of awesome then pooped out a T-Rex sized 3D bio-luminescent chunk of fantasticness. It smelled of roses, I say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benz Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Well put, Haku. Well put. I loved it. Aarty and I saw it in IMAX 3D, and it was amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalHeart Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I've had friends pimp it to me saying "Don't go for the story, go see it in 3D for the awesome effects". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benz Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I thought the story was pretty good, but you focus more on the effects than anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntercrow Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 it was fern gully meets dances w/wolves in space with a heaping side of visually orgasmic awesomeness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I thought the story was pretty good, but you focus more on the effects than anything. Pretty good? I heard the rare mineral that prompted the human's attempt at relocating the aliens was called unobtainium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Pretty good? I heard the rare mineral that prompted the human's attempt at relocating the aliens was called unobtainium. That's only because Fucking-Hard-To-Get-Ium wouldn't fit on the plaquard. It really is exactly Dances with Wolves meets Fern Gully and it plays out in such a paint by numbers fashion that there's really no originality to the plot, story or characters whatsoever. Also the 3D is so immersive that by halfway through the movie you don't even really notice it anymore. But hey, Sigourney Weaver is pretty good in it plus she's almost attractive these days which is impressive since she never has been (except in Galaxy Quest, I would hit that so hard that the next person to pull me out of it would be crowned King of England) and there were a couple things that were unique about Pandora (I.E. the non-breathable atmosphere and the fact that the N'avi were twice the size of human beings, things that are normally overlooked in this type of film) and hell, it did look nice. Not only that, the game's probably pretty good, it pretty much has to be as the movie sets out every single level for the developers to follow there's even a final boss. Also, why did the guy's mechwarrior have a knife? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted January 1, 2010 Author Share Posted January 1, 2010 Also, why did the guy's mechwarrior have a knife? If you have to ask, you missed the whole point. Mechwarrior+knife leaves no room for 'why?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archangel Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 I concur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 I concur With Jax? Cause if so, stop. It's one of the signs of the End Times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 If you have to ask, you missed the whole point. Mechwarrior+knife leaves no room for 'why?' Yeah, my answer to that question would be: because it's frickin' badass. Also, I never saw Ferngully, but apparently that was on a lot of people's must see list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 No, it just means you didn't grow up in the 90s apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 'Baytor pretty much confirmed every suspicion I had about this movie. Pretty visuals can't carry a film for me, much like Greg Land cannot carry a comic book. And the game is very "meh", action/rpg-lite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aartemys Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Also, I never saw Ferngully, but apparently that was on a lot of people's must see list. I've got it on VHS if you want to borrow it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted January 2, 2010 Author Share Posted January 2, 2010 'Baytor pretty much confirmed every suspicion I had about this movie.Pretty visuals can't carry a film for me, much like Greg Land cannot carry a comic book. And the game is very "meh", action/rpg-lite. Sometime, if the visuals are really, very, very pretty, they can carry a movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aartemys Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Sometime, if the visuals are really, very, very pretty, they can carry a movie. They are. And they do. I love, love, LOVED this movie... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Didn't live up to the hype at all. I see ads on tv telling me it'll change the way I look at movies. We don't see that too often and when I see that it should deliver. This was just another cg'ed up movie with too much preachiness added to it. I did enjoy it but if I hadn't seen it in theaters I probably wouldn't have @.@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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