LMAO! Thanks for doing that! Seeing it written down like that makes it painfully obvious!

LMAO! Thanks for doing that! Seeing it written down like that makes it painfully obvious!

S... He plagiarised Pocahontas, Call Me Joe and Dances With Wolves? And earned $1 billion + endless praise ?

Edited January 5, 201015 yr by Sylph

Just got back from seeing it......I didn't really expect the theatre to be full at 3:30pm on a Thursday! I thought the movie was okay. The story was something I've seen before, it wasn't new, so I wasn't impressed by that. I didn't get "into" the romance between Jake/Neytiri, maybe because there wasn't enough of it and that maybe was intentional. This was made for fanboys instead of fangirls.

But was impressed by the special effects and the imagery....my God is was amazing to watch, simply breathtaking. My favorite scene was Jake and Neytiri flying on those things.....my eyes were just going all around the screen, looking at all the visuals. The final fight sequence was pretty awesome too. Another visual I loved was the floating mountains. It was visually the best movie I've probably ever seen. Better than Star Trek, Star Wars 1-3, or LOTR 1-3.

I liked Titanic more because was emotionally involved with that - I wasn't emotionally involved with Avatar. I also didn't fell the music in Avatar like I did with Titanic.

I will definitely go see Avatar 2 and 3 because of the special effects and because I'm a JC fan.

I really hope Avatar wins a ton of Oscars for special effects.

Final rating: I will agree with Adam's 6.5/10.

Box office update: Avatar just took down LOTR:3 for 2nd all time worldwide. It now only needs $700 million more to beat Titanic. Domestically, it's now 12th all time with $374 million.

The script: here.

The plot left lots of glaring holes.

The way they shift from their Avatar to humanity was lame indeed. I thought it was so weird that if it was daylight near the homebase, where Jake and Sigourney Weaver and everyone else was, why Jakesully, the avatar, would still be sleeping?! Were they on a different part of the planet/moon? And how would they know when Jake was sleeping? Were they monitoring the Avatar's brain activity?

Just use your imagination as to how it works. My thinking is Homebase and where the Na'vi live are very far from each other? That can explain the daylight/night different. And for how they would know how Jake was sleeping, you answered your own question with the brain activity.

Just use your imagination as to how it works.

I paid 10.50 American dollars to watch this crap in 3D. I don't NEED to use my imagination as to how it works. That should have been done for me. I don't watch a movie to use my own imagination or to "figure it out for myself." And even if I DID, James Cameron is no David Lynch.

I paid 10.50 American dollars to watch this crap in 3D. I don't NEED to use my imagination as to how it works. That should have been done for me. I don't watch a movie to use my own imagination or to "figure it out for myself." And even if I DID, James Cameron is no David Lynch.

But when it comes to science fiction, you do have to use your imagintion. You can't explain every little detail, especially if it's not important to the story or characters.

I am glad others here who have seen it feel the same way I do. Love the Pocahontas rewrite post haha. When watching it I thought numerous times about how this is Pocahontas with Blue people. The more time passes and the more hype this mediocre film receives makes me more angry. It wasn't that good. How much of the profits Jim made from Titanic did he through around these critic circles to get all this praise?

Makes no sense. Since when is copying Hollywood classics considered a critical success?

I am glad others here who have seen it feel the same way I do. Love the Pocahontas rewrite post haha. When watching it I thought numerous times about how this is Pocahontas with Blue people. The more time passes and the more hype this mediocre film receives makes me more angry. It wasn't that good. How much of the profits Jim made from Titanic did he through around these critic circles to get all this praise?

Makes no sense. Since when is copying Hollywood classics considered a critical success?

+1

Makes no sense. Since when is copying Hollywood classics considered a critical success?

Hollywood is based on stealing thoughts and ideas all the time and I don't mind that. You just have to make me connect and enjoy the film. I guess that's why I'm able to watch chick flicks, revenge movies, slasher films, zombie movies, etc - they're all pretty similar. I have no problems if Avatar modeled itself after a bunch of movies. My problem was I didn't connect with the story or the characters.

Yes Toups that is the real issue, the fact that the story (copied or not) did not emotionally resonate with you and me for that matter. I came out of the experience thinking, "wow that was pretty....." that's really all I could say. The more I hear people sing its praises beyond the technical aspect makes me want to tear out my hair.

Yes Toups that is the real issue, the fact that the story (copied or not) did not emotionally resonate with you and me for that matter. I came out of the experience thinking, "wow that was pretty....." that's really all I could say. The more I hear people sing its praises beyond the technical aspect makes me want to tear out my hair.

The problem I have with this sh!tty movie is that it should have been fun. Just plain dumb fun. And it wasn't. Because it was just dumb and it had all the references to Iraq/Afghanistan + eco-activism.

The problem I have with this sh!tty movie is that it should have been fun. Just plain dumb fun. And it wasn't. Because it was just dumb and it had all the references to Iraq/Afghanistan + eco-activism.

Which will probably push it towards some kind of nomination, if not win.

Which will probably push it towards some kind of nomination, if not win.

Regarding that... From here:

In this case, "Up in the Air" and "Avatar" have significantly more votes than the 501 they need to be nominated, and more than the 601 (501 plus 20 percent) they need to trigger the surplus rule. "Up in the Air" has twice as many votes as it needs, and "Avatar" has 50 percent more.

So those two films get their nominations, but their ballots aren't taken off the table. Instead, they're all redistributed into the piles of the films listed second — where they count not as a full vote, but as whatever fraction of the vote wasn't needed. A sliding scale determines exactly what percentage is used.

The "Up in the Air" ballots, for instance, will count as half a vote, because that film only needed half of each of its 1,002 votes to reach the magic number of 501. "Avatar" needed two-thirds of its 771 votes to reach the threshold, so its redistributed votes will count as one-third – i.e., the unneeded portion of each vote.

Each voter will still only get a single vote – but in this case, that single vote will be split between two different films.

Edited January 10, 201015 yr by Sylph

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