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"The film vibrates with the excitement of discovery and awe. Not just for the sight of six-legged rhinos and butterfly-hued dragons, but for the thousands of hours of work that unite here in a creative epiphany." - Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune "Mr. Cameron's singular vision has upped the ante for filmed entertainment, and given us a travelogue unlike any other. I wouldn't want to live on Pandora, mainly because of the bad air, but I'm glad to have paid it a visit. " - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal "An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic's box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors." - Victoria Alexander, FilmsInReview.com "With Avatar, Cameron has created the first great epic of the 21st century and a new benchmark in filmmaking. No wonder that this took 4 years to produce, it was worth every minute to get this right." - Diva Velez, TheDivaReview.com "This masterpiece is definitely one experience worth braving text a lot guy, talking teen girls and parents who can't be bothered to get a babysitter to see in the theater." - Jeffery Lyles, MD Gazette "The best picture of 2009, one of the best films of the decade and, really, one of the best movies I've ever seen." - Kevin N. Laforest, Montreal Film Journal "James Cameron invented a world comparable to George Lucas' galaxy of long ago, far, far away and as original as what Peter Jackson did with J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth." - Gary Wolcott, Tri-City Herald "Works as both a socially conscious Western update and as a true SF film, revealing the influences of such fine genre writers as Philip Jose Farmer, Larry Niven and especially Edgar Rice Burroughs (the 'John Carter of Mars' series)." - John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal "Un entretenimiento fascinante, con pasajes de inusual belleza, servido con mano maestra por James Cameron. Es también un alegato ecologista y pacifista, justo en tiempos de creciente militarismo y abuso de recursos naturales." - Enrique Buchichio, Paraguay Total Ole! Most amazing jew boots |
You need someone else's words to feel better about Avatar?
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
Films as art resonate with more force and pathos than Avatar does. Honestly, aside from breakthroughs in CGI filmmaking, the word "art" doesn't even belong in a conversation about Avatar. All the non-visual elements are pretty ordinary, from the plot to the dialogue to the soundtrack. It's a fun movie but it has absolutely no impact. Compare this to far greater films such as Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, Shawshank Redemption or Schindler's List. Those are works of art because they evoke something real. Avatar cannot accomplish this, and is barely "art" as far as the legitimate meaning goes. FELIPE NO |
There's no baseline for watching a movie and enjoying it (The same person could enjoy Last Year at Marienbad and Dumb & Dumber for different reasons), so I don't know why you guys are so keen on shoehorning one in here. How ya doing, buddy? |
How ya doing, buddy? |
You guys are getting way too bogged down in this "art" talk.
This is from Roger Ebert's review of Raiders of the Lost Ark:
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
How ya doing, buddy? |
I was speaking idiomatically. "Oh sirrah" -Hedonism Bot |
I don't even think it is 20 bucks. IMAX 3d was 14 dollars for me anyway. And I seem to remember these ticket sales were like less than 10% of the overall gross. Or was that 3D in general?
How ya doing, buddy? |
I imagine IMAX 3D would be about 10%, though now I'm a bit annoyed I paid about that for 3D in a normal theater.
FELIPE NO |
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Even the original version was shown both in 2 and 3D. Is it a work of art? Is any Cameron movie one? Can popular action movies (or "CG-Pr0n" as the hater dub them) ever be considered that? And does that even matter? I mean, at the end of the day the characters are not too deep, the plot is not too original. But then the movie has 10 feet tall blue alien cat bushpeople that ride on flying dinosaurs fighting mechs and a bad guy boarding his power suit in while his ship's going down and he's on fire. Which is pretty awesome in my book, shallow characters or not. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
I friend of mine actually was interested in seeing and I went to watch it again last night. In IMAX this time. It was a dollar more than digital 3d but clearly IMAX was the better choice. As soon as the movie started You could see the difference in clarity and the 3D was actually was more obvious. Not saying that it played a big role in the overall enjoyment though.
I completely agree with points about the story too but I actually enjoyed watching it more the second time around. Probably because it was my first IMAX film, but visually, it was great eye candy and pretty much a good reason to watch a movie on the big screen. Most amazing jew boots New Record! |
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
This review tidily lays out a lot of the issues I had with Avatar. It's a bit long, but then again you wasted three hours of your time and fifteen of your hard-earned dollars watching the movie, so this is really quite an efficient use of your time by comparison. Plus: the reviewer has more personality than any of the characters in Avatar, and he had the ability to make me laugh - and not just at him.
Enjoy!
I was speaking idiomatically. |
It's weird watching that after his Phantom Menace review, in which he talks about how you shouldn't stray from stock characters too much. For the first half, I thought he was only pretending to dislike Avatar. I mean, contrast with this bit:
(not embedded due to timecode) But I get his point that Cameron played it too safe. I think this was a fair review. He makes it pretty clear that your personal tolerance for eyeroll moments can make or break this one for you; for me, it helped that I expected all the noble savage white guilt preachy junk before I walked into the theater. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
FELIPE NO |
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