AVATAR... Thoughts?

[GK Punk]

I just saw it the other day. I enjoyed it, despite it's problems. As others have said, the storyline was a little transparent. But over all it was an enjoyable movie.

[Raph's Girl]

Yeah..that's been going around the net like wildfire.

There's also a Na'vi

Spoiler:

porn site.

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

There's also a Na'vi

Spoiler:

porn site.

God. F*cking. Damn. It.

[GK Punk]

There's people willing to ruin everything.

[NinjaVanish]

Originally Posted by TheCure

bahaha! thanks for posting this up! This has justified my thought of Avatar's story. That is straight up plagarism Mr. Cameron. Shame on you for taking away from a classic! *sarcasm*

[Mr.Turtle]

I went to see the 3D one with my friend! Its down to earth cool!
It was also my 1st time watching a real 3D movie! I can't help but loving it!
They were so realy I could nearly touch thoes white "jellyfish"! XD

[Canadian Turtle]

Ok so lets set aside the fact that everyone and their dog has been going to this movie, the critics like it and it has been making record money... that's aside. Also lets put aside the fact that people like the crap that comes out of Hollywood at the best of times and we all just accept it... I mean really why don't people take a piss on those absurd insults to the medium Twilight what ever movies.

Anyways, my stupid reactions impulse aside (hahah really I am only stoking the fire on purpose here... but you'd have to know me to know that) I'd really like to know what story you would tell if you had 300mill to make a movie and knew you had to make that back? Don't tell me its predictable, just tell me what the hell you would make? Why on earth would someone waist that much money on some new "art" film with some whacked out plot that doesn't work? You make a movie to make money, people are stupid and they want what they are used to. I live in Canada, in my industry we are literally told we can NOT make something like this, we are not "allowed" to make genre films, so we make this art house movie stuff that no one watches. There is a reason this movie is predictable, I am not saying that it is not. If you put that aside and look at how it is executed and enjoy the movie for the kick ass ride that it is, then you'll get your money's worth. Otherwise come to Canada and watch something "new" hahaha.

My thoughts for the evening.

PS to address an earlier question, yes this technology and the way it was used will be used in the future, and does make a massive difference in the way we can create digitally manipulated reality.

[Mr. Snackpants]

Originally Posted by Canadian Turtle

Ok so lets set aside the fact that everyone and their dog has been going to this movie, the critics like it and it has been making record money... that's aside. Also lets put aside the fact that people like the crap that comes out of Hollywood at the best of times and we all just accept it... I mean really why don't people take a piss on those absurd insults to the medium Twilight what ever movies.

Anyways, my stupid reactions impulse aside (hahah really I am only stoking the fire on purpose here... but you'd have to know me to know that) I'd really like to know what story you would tell if you had 300mill to make a movie and knew you had to make that back? Don't tell me its predictable, just tell me what the hell you would make? Why on earth would someone waist that much money on some new "art" film with some whacked out plot that doesn't work? You make a movie to make money, people are stupid and they want what they are used to. I live in Canada, in my industry we are literally told we can NOT make something like this, we are not "allowed" to make genre films, so we make this art house movie stuff that no one watches. There is a reason this movie is predictable, I am not saying that it is not. If you put that aside and look at how it is executed and enjoy the movie for the kick ass ride that it is, then you'll get your money's worth. Otherwise come to Canada and watch something "new" hahaha.

My thoughts for the evening.

PS to address an earlier question, yes this technology and the way it was used will be used in the future, and does make a massive difference in the way we can create digitally manipulated reality.

I believe people already expressed what they wanted....a good, non-predictable story. Why do you even keep asking this question?

[PAAATE]

Originally Posted by Canadian Turtle

Ok so lets set aside the fact that everyone and their dog has been going to this movie, the critics like it and it has been making record money... that's aside. Also lets put aside the fact that people like the crap that comes out of Hollywood at the best of times and we all just accept it... I mean really why don't people take a piss on those absurd insults to the medium Twilight what ever movies.

Anyways, my stupid reactions impulse aside (hahah really I am only stoking the fire on purpose here... but you'd have to know me to know that) I'd really like to know what story you would tell if you had 300mill to make a movie and knew you had to make that back? Don't tell me its predictable, just tell me what the hell you would make? Why on earth would someone waist that much money on some new "art" film with some whacked out plot that doesn't work? You make a movie to make money, people are stupid and they want what they are used to. I live in Canada, in my industry we are literally told we can NOT make something like this, we are not "allowed" to make genre films, so we make this art house movie stuff that no one watches. There is a reason this movie is predictable, I am not saying that it is not. If you put that aside and look at how it is executed and enjoy the movie for the kick ass ride that it is, then you'll get your money's worth. Otherwise come to Canada and watch something "new" hahaha.

My thoughts for the evening.

PS to address an earlier question, yes this technology and the way it was used will be used in the future, and does make a massive difference in the way we can create digitally manipulated reality.

It doesn't have to be an art style-movie, for it to be unpredictable.

If I had 300 million dollars to make a movie, I know exactly what story I would tell, because it's one I'm working on right now. I obviously don't wanna tell what it's about, but it's not exactly the same story as some other movie, as far as I know

Which Avatar was. Different characters, different settings, but exactly the same story as some other movies.

[Spitfire]

The point of the film is the message. If looking at the film as an impressive 3 hour PSA for "Save the Earth" helps you accept that better then by all means. We know he can write, we've seen his other films, this was obviously intentional. If it's intentional I don't consider it a fault. There's very few times I can watch a film and ignore a story because of how blown away I am visually and this was one of those films.

[gobo]

Didn't seem like 3 hours to me... Also, as predictable as it was, I couldn't hold that against it. Before being roped into seeing it, I was expecting some boring, 3-hour, art exhibit. I was pleasantly surprised. It was more a grown-up's version of all those tree-hugger, children's movies people keep pointing out that it's a knockoff of. I enjoyed it.