Avatar is Avatarded. Curse you Joseph Campbell for creating a formula for stories. Curse you Christopher Vogler for putting that formula in an easy to read book that all the movie executives have on their desks, and curse you James Cameron for making the same movie for the past 30 years! Hero's Journey, I get it... earth is alive, military = bad. Yawn.

Watched it in IMAX 3D and it was awful. I expected Vincent Price to come and use yoyos on the audience. The alien things were obvious rip offs of Indians and Haitians. They might as well have called it "Dances with Jar Jar Binks Clones". I see some kids passed the Calarts class on alien creatures... If you're in a computer graphics school go watch and geek out on it, but for everyone else, save your time and money: its another bloated predictable production.

I enjoyed it. Probably because I didn't expect much of it. It reminded me of a weird mix of Star Wars (the new ones) and Pocahontas.

I agree with you about the blatant ripoffs of the Indians and Haitians. They also threw some spanish into the language.

I think it would have been better if they didn't dumb it down too much. And god damn that movie was long.

Posted by Oryx I enjoyed it. Probably because I didn't expect much of it. It reminded me of a weird mix of Star Wars (the new ones) and Pocahontas.

That's because they teach this formula in film schools. They teach that this is the most effective way to do a film, especially a big one. Both of those films use this structure and also have Pantheism as a central moral.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

Sometimes this works but you could see it all coming in Avatar. Further, the effects will be dated in a few years. When the Lumiere Brothers first showed their short film of a train, people were jumping out of the way because it seemed so "real." There is no better way to ensure that a film eventually seems archaic then to base its primary appeal on effects. It will be forgotten in 10 years.

I won't forget it. I've seen every kind of 3D made in the last 40yrs. but this new stuff is amazing. (Saw it first in that "Monsters" kids movie). In Avatar there is a scene where snow begins to fall and I swear those snowflakes were reach-out-and-grab-one close. I only went for the effects anyway so I didn't feel shorted by the plot-line, etc.

I was fantasizing on the fun of watching a 3d porn flick and getting poked in the eye with a big boob nipple, but then realized that's not all I'd be getting poked in the eye with,, ."Dive!, Dive!

..............................................Kurtz

Posted by WEKurtz I won't forget it. I've seen every kind of 3D made in the last 40yrs. but this new stuff is amazing. (Saw it first in that "Monsters" kids movie). In Avatar there is a scene where snow begins to fall and I swear those snowflakes were reach-out-and-grab-one close. I only went for the effects anyway so I didn't feel shorted by the plot-line, etc. I was fantasizing on the fun of watching a 3d porn flick and getting poked in the eye with a big boob nipple, but then realized that's not all I'd be getting poked in the eye with,, ."Dive!, Dive! ..............................................Kurtz

Haha the next generation of porno! Ya know, they just might do it. They put all that money into the Pirates flick which had a ridiculous amount of effects and it did really well. Probably just a matter of time. Not sure if Imax will be up for showing it though

Posted by Oryx Haha the next generation of porno! Ya know, they just might do it. They put all that money into the Pirates flick which had a ridiculous amount of effects and it did really well. Probably just a matter of time. Not sure if Imax will be up for showing it though

give them 10 years. They'll catch up to our debauchery.

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It was already done in 1969!!

"Attendants" would've sounded better.
Stewardesses just sounds hokey.
if i am paying top dollar for porn, i want some production value.




















(points if you can give me the movie that last line is from)

The stewardesses played on the giant screen at the continental theatre in Tulsa back in the 70's. Softcore 3D Porn on a 30 x 100 screen, and yes people were lined up for almost a block to see it.

I've been told by at least 10 people in the past 2 days to go and see this movie so i guess i'll have to check it out. Apparently you have to see it in 3D though? Because the regular version really doesn't do it justice? Or so others have told me anyways...

Posted by Samurai if i am paying top dollar for porn, i want some production value. (points if you can give me the movie that last line is from)

Superbad.

seeing it in 3d is only worth it if you're on mushrooms or acid.

Ah i see i see...

Well since i no longer partake in one of those and i've never done the other i guess i'll have to see the regular version.

Posted by earthworm seeing it in 3d is only worth it if you're on mushrooms or acid.

Nah, I've heard from countless people that the 3D version is amazing. You're probably the only person I know who hasn't liked it. Don't feel bad though. I'm the only person I know who didn't like Zombieland

Yeah i've been told to only see it in 3D apparently now so i guess 3D it is.

Posted by "Big Daddy D" Yeah i've been told to only see it in 3D apparently now so i guess 3D it is.

Dont sit too close, we got there a little late and had to sit up front, made my eyes hurt because it wasn't entirely in focus.

Yup, that about sums it up.

Of course the story is weak. But visually, it is amazing. The only film of 2009 that looks better AND has a better story is The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus.

I finally saw this movie tonight and aside from the 3D (which was pretty cool) the movie itself was meh....I mean yeah it was decent, but holy fack was it long though...

Can you believe Avatar?!? It's *still* #1 after the 5th week! This is truly bizarre. You thought Cameron's ego was big before when he just had the biggest box office hit in history, imagine what it'll be now that he has the #1 *and* #2 all time hits? He'll probably wanna be the king of the whole universe now! He'll go to Fox and ask to film his next movie on Mars. Fox will tell him you can't shoot on Mars because there's no atmosphere with oxygen. Cameron will simply take some of his earnings and terraform the planet and then begin filming without skipping a beat.

Avatar is the biggest movie of all time world wide, beating Titanic.

Cameron's ego will be huger than ever now!