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Posted by Daren
Dec 18, 2009 15:47:11 GMT -5
Is really good. If you have the choice see it in 3D. It's amazing.
Posted by luckymcdowell
Dec 19, 2009 21:39:33 GMT -5
It was pretty good, but not the cinema changing event that Cameron was saying it was gonna be.

Visually it was amazing, the definition of Scenery Porn, but it was pretty much a standard Humans are Bastards, Magical Natives story.

Still good though.
Posted by latooni
Dec 19, 2009 21:56:58 GMT -5
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It was pretty good, but not the cinema changing event that Cameron was saying it was gonna be.


Isn't that what he always says?
Posted by kuriboh
Dec 20, 2009 14:10:31 GMT -5
WEll, Titanic WAS.
Posted by Ketara
Dec 20, 2009 22:05:05 GMT -5
I saw it today. It was definitely the best CGI I've ever seen.

The plot was v. predictable and not BAD but it wasn't really good either.

But it was just so amazingly pretty that it was worth seeing.
Posted by jon
Dec 21, 2009 4:56:49 GMT -5
Saw it yesterday in IMAX 3D. I agree with Ket, generally. I was particularly disappointed that there were some really interesting questions that the whole exercise could have posed, that they more or less ignored to make Dances With Smurfs.

Oh well. It was REALLY good-looking.
Posted by aleksei
Dec 21, 2009 21:58:27 GMT -5
I liked it, except for the part where the film parallels 500 years of Europeans trying to absolve their guilt for colonization. To this end, I would've loved to see Avatar without Sully...we don't need any more films about white men going tribal and saving indigenous people that apparently can't help themselves.

"You have The Mexican with Brad Pitt, The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise... I wonder what's next? Hey, I know, I'll make a movie titled The Last N--- On Earth. Starring Tom Hanks." -Paul Mooney
Posted by Ketara
Dec 21, 2009 22:12:30 GMT -5
It would have been a much better movie without Sully.

Or they could have just included Sully, and made different corporations and different PMCs after the ore. One could get the side of the colonists and one could want to wipe them out and we'd end up with a scifi French and Indian war which would have been awesome.

My biggest problem with it was that the characters were all very stereotypical. It's true that the plot was ridden with white guilt and very predictable, but it wasn't a bad plot. It's worked before and it still worked.

But even within that plot they could have made characters that were more human and less cookie cutter.
Posted by Nomad
Dec 23, 2009 10:22:18 GMT -5
I watched it last night. I enjoyed it. I found it hilarious after that movie they played a soft song at the credits. Even funnier was the fact that it resembled the song from Titanic xD
Posted by tylatz
Dec 23, 2009 10:46:15 GMT -5
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"You have The Mexican with Brad Pitt, The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise... I wonder what's next? Hey, I know, I'll make a movie titled The Last N--- On Earth. Starring Tom Hanks." -Paul Mooney


Sweet. When's the Hanks movie coming out?
Posted by drewsie
Dec 23, 2009 16:34:05 GMT -5
I thought it was pretty good as well, I agree it could of gone without sully and his want to join the tribe since his human life sucked. It was entertaining for the full 3 hours at least.

I'm more excited to see the Avatar: The Last Air Bender though.

Posted by deadguydrew
Dec 23, 2009 16:39:36 GMT -5
Yeah, predictable plot, but the special effects make it worth seeing if you can deal with the furries.
Posted by braddigan
Dec 24, 2009 12:58:29 GMT -5
Sweet movie. I <3ed it. Makes me sad knowing Humans would never be able to please a 10 ft woman like that without using the whole arm.
Posted by jon
Dec 25, 2009 2:51:18 GMT -5
Well, maybe YOU couldn't...
Posted by Chan
Dec 25, 2009 21:08:32 GMT -5
:: breaks out his rappelling gear ::