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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby guy07 » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:55 am

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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:00 pm

Alright so. I could go on a very long pretentious rant about every tiny detail, cliche, etc. but I'll just simplify all that because I know you all have been just dying to hear my opinion of the film. I will spare you from the long winded technical jargon, critique of writing, storytelling and cinematography and just leave you with this:

Eh, not bad. :O
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby CodeZTM » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:37 pm

Forgot to post on this, but I saw it a few weeks ago. :D

I really enjoyed it. While it wasn't anything new, it was still done in a compelling way that made me interested. Yeah, the hippie and native american "AMERICA YOU SUCK" subtext is SCREAMING AT YOU IN THE LOUDEST VOICE POSSIBLE, but I really liked the race vs race internal conflict that Jake went through. It was subtle, but enough that I really liked it.

I could go on and complain about a million things, but I really enjoyed it, so why bother doing it? :up:

Oh and...

Spoiler :
Why the fuck did they have to kill the doctor and the pilot? I mean.. That was just a dick move. ;____;
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Moonlight Soldier » Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:06 pm

See I really didn't find it "anti-American"

What stood out more for me, was this interplay between naive scientists and the corporation. Mercs are mercs.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Ishbalan » Sat Jan 23, 2010 3:33 pm

Sigourney Weaver is still hot at 60. :up:
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby ZephyrStar » Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:03 pm

Mewn wrote:corporation


This.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby ZephyrStar » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:41 pm

Alright yeah, this pretty much sums up everything I would have said, but in a far more humorous and mostly rageless fashion. I lol'd my ass off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJarz7BYnHA Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLzKwTcGO_0 Part 2
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Otohiko » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:15 pm

Haha, at the start of Part 2...

"So ask yourself - how would all this have played out if the Navi just happened to look like this?"

That reminds me of why Kin-Dza-Dza is such an amazing movie - the characters DO look ridiculous like that, and yet the story is so good it manages to build up real sympathy for them through good plot and characterization, even though unlike these blue cat things they're kinda jerks and their civilization seriously sucks. That is how human-like alien characters should be.

Awesome analysis, I even get the logic behind Titanic-hate (I actually kind of liked that movie >__>). The viewer-manipulation stuff is definitely why I often hate movies or stories generally. When you can see it like that, it's incredo-irritating.

Haven't seen Avatar though, not exactly enthused to >__>
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Knowname » Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:54 pm

I knew what was gonna happen in Titanic and ended up not liking it so much. I went into Avatar expecting something slightly different. While I was totaly let down on my expectations I can't say I didn't enjoy it... ofc I didn't spend the 16 bucks to get in lol. But still I think it's worth seeing IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, Oto knows what's going to happen, I wouldn't say it's worth him seeing now. I knew what's going to happen in Titanic, I didn't think it was worth seeing... on it's original release (I saw it at a discount theater).

Then again, if you take this criteria you'd find a lot of terrible movies worth seeing just cuz you don't know what's going to happen lol. Well that is one criteria and Titanic let me down wheras Avatar did not.

Anyway I think that review says it all well, Avatar is good and all, but not enshrinement worthy.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Ileia » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:54 am

bump to make Knowname wrong in another thread
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Knowname » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:37 am

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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Otohiko » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:42 am

I like movies/stories where I know what's going to happen. That way, the writer/director actually has to work hard to impress me. I dislike it when the viewer is treated as stupid by virtue of not knowing what's going to happen - not to make blanket statements, there's plenty of well-written surprises out there, but in general, I really appreciate it much better when more of the writers' work goes into execution and 'getting there' so to speak, rather than just coming up with ways to twist the plot unexpectedly. IMHO a good story should not be about WHERE you get, but HOW you get there.

In that sense, Titanic wasn't exactly brilliant of course, but it wasn't bad.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Knowname » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:48 am

I just like the way he put it lol if you find a nice young girl and have sex with her in a brilliant location, heads up cuz some spectacular calamity is about to occur in the next scene lol.
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