Is anyone else MASSIVELY excited to see Avatar?

[LoopStationZebra]

Zebra, wtf would you see it twice if you hated it so much the first time? FWIW I knew exactly what was going to happen in every scene also, but it was just so farkin good looking that I forgot about it You're not watching some piratebay version on a 12" screen at home are you?

lol. I was genuinely concerned that because everyone else on Planet Earth seems to love the movie that maybe I owed it a second shot. My mood that day was kinda shitty, didn't have breakfast, etc.

People seem to have utterly fallen in love with the CGI/visuals, and I totally get that. But I just get really bored with CGI effects. Maybe bored isn't the right word. More like 'numb'. At the end of the day it's just the whole story that really turned me off. dances with wolves in space. wow. *snore* Oh look. Another 'handsome white man has to save the natives who can't seem to save themselves' yarn. *snore*

It would have been much more interesting if the natives suddenly connected with the planet and unleashed holy hell on the humans AND that fucking gimp twit.

It needed more balls. More slime. More 'Aliens' and less 'Fern Gully'.

[LoopStationZebra]

yes, most of the story was predictable from a high altitude perspective, but the only reason you knew the whole story the second time around wasn't because of your massive brain. It was because you saw it the first time.

Dreadful. Absolutely. Positively. Fucking. Dreadful.
Kill yourself now.

[timothyallan]

It would have been much more interesting if the natives suddenly connected with the planet and unleashed holy hell on the humans AND that fucking gimp twit.

It needed more balls. More slime. More 'Aliens' and less 'Fern Gully'.

Then it wouldn't be the family movie that it is then If only Quentin Tarantino had done it...

[LoopStationZebra]

Yes the story is cliched but I don't think it really matters if it's executed and presented this well.
This is not a documentary about native people's lifestyles, it's a frickin' space fantasy adventure movie.

Best post yet. People are tryin to make a simple, fun movie experience into something it's not. Not every movie has to be worthy of the Best Screenplay oscar to be worth watching or 'good'.

Let The Right One In WAS an awesome movie too, loved that one.


You can like movies for different reasons, and you don't have to hold all movies to the same standards in order to enjoy them. You say you don't like the movie but haven't seen it? FAIL.

Hmm. People who didn't like this aren't expecting Film Greatness. But fuck, is just a little intelligence too much to ask? For instance:

The rock or mineral or whatever on this planet is worth a lot of coin. Got it. Veeeeeery valuable. Got it. The humans don't want to hurt the blue people because of potential bad press, but if push comes to shove they'll get medieval on their asses. Got it.

Therefore, am I seriously going to believe that after the enormous effort of getting to the planet and starting the mining Op that the humans wouldn't just napalm the ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET????????

FFS.

It's not like they NEED the MOTHERFUCKING VEGETATION ANYWAY, lolololol. Good Christ Almighty. The air is poison to humans. lol. So, eh, in the future we can travel for 5 years in hypersleep and have cool giant robots and bitchin' 'puter screens but there's no napalm? lol.

[timothyallan]

Don't forget that when the humans leave, they don't ever bother to try and come back with a bigger army. They just go because they were beat fair and square!

[LoopStationZebra]

It would have been much more interesting if the natives suddenly connected with the planet and unleashed holy hell on the humans AND that fucking gimp twit.

It needed more balls. More slime. More 'Aliens' and less 'Fern Gully'.

Then it wouldn't be the family movie that it is then If only Quentin Tarantino had done it...

lol. Yes.

Speaking of which, just watched Inglorious Bastards and was less than impressed. haha.

[LoopStationZebra]

Don't forget that when the humans leave, they don't ever bother to try and come back with a bigger army. They just go because they were beat fair and square!

Yes. Sequel time!

Actually, the project that Cameron has been threatening to do for YEARS is a remake of Forbidden Planet - which could be amazing.

[Tone Deft]

I watched Ice Station Zebra Last Night.

fell asleep.

[Leon Tricker]

Therefore, am I seriously going to believe that after the enormous effort of getting to the planet and starting the mining Op that the humans wouldn't just napalm the ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET????????

Exactly. Just one of the holes in the storyline. At the start of the film the humans go on about how deadly the natives are. But as soon as there is a showdown, the natives have little more than bows and arrows. I was rooting for the natives to have a mystical, magical smart-bomb up their sleeve to blast the smiles off the faces of the cliched American characters.

[LoopStationZebra]

I watched Ice Station Zebra Last Night.

fell asleep.

Yes, but Rock Hudson. woof! Hot.

[LoopStationZebra]

At the start of the film the humans go on about how deadly the natives are. But as soon as there is a showdown, the natives have little more than bows and arrows.

lol. Yes. I actually took that to mean the entire planet was deadly and the worst thing the Col had ever seen blah blah blah. I then strapped myself into my seat and said, "Okay, cool. Heeere we go. The planet's going to be one giant mean jungle with nasties lurking in eggsacks and such." lol. Predator-type jungle nasty.

Then what I got was 2 more hours of pretty butterflies and wispy jellyfish type things that came from something called the Tree of Life or some such shit.

Oh, and the occasional beast. Sure. Whatever.

Tree of Life. Fucking horrid. The worst scene in cinema history is when the Navi are circling around the tree and swaying back and forth and chanting some lovely back to nature Kumbaya drivel. It was at that point that I wanted to flay the skin off my chest and start eating it as a snack.

[majestic]

The worst scene in cinema history is when the Navi are circling around the tree and swaying back and forth and chanting some lovely back to nature Kumbaya drivel. It was at that point that I wanted to flay the skin off my chest and start eating it as a snack.

Yeah, that scene was kind of cringeworthy. And why would an alien race chant in conventional human (Western even!) musical scales? It was a squandered opportunity to do some really interesting/powerful atonal music.

Having said that, I loved the rest of the movie though.

[Tone Deft]

I watched Ice Station Zebra Last Night.

fell asleep.

Yes, but Rock Hudson. woof! Hot.

cool movie, it was just on too late. manly men doing manly things.


this thread is a lot like Avatar. anyone else MASSIVELY excited to see how much longer it lasts?

[Tarekith]

I'd love to see this thread in 3D, I bet the words just leap off the page.

[timothyallan]

I'd love to scroll through it at the IMAX.