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Post by xbeerdrinkerx on Dec 11, 2009 17:37:41 GMT -5
Apparently, despite all the evidence to the contrary, AVATAR is completely awesome. Right now it's sitting at a solid 86% on rottentomatoes, and all the negative reviews seem to be coming from people who hate action movies, so it's really closer to 100% in my mind.
Anyone else excited for Dances With Smurfs? I mean, come on, it's JIM FUCKING CAMERON!!!!!1!!1!!
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Post by Super Nintendo Chalmers on Dec 11, 2009 17:39:14 GMT -5
I think it looks dumb.
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Post by leoz maxwell jilliumz on Dec 11, 2009 17:53:13 GMT -5
please, call it by its real name
dancing with smurfgully
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Post by dave on Dec 11, 2009 18:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by twhneal on Dec 11, 2009 18:26:07 GMT -5
He wrote and directed Terminator 2 and directed Aliens. That alone should give naysayers who've yet to see it pause.
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Post by xbeerdrinkerx on Dec 11, 2009 18:51:55 GMT -5
So did I. Everyone who thought it looked dumb who saw it said it was awesome. Even the most cynical blogger nerds are giving it thumbs up. Aside from some cheesy James Cameron dialogue, I hear it's golden. He wrote and directed Terminator 2 and directed Aliens. That alone should give naysayers who've yet to see it pause. Yep. I should have known better than to doubt. Cameron is the God of action movies. This is going to rock.
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Post by rc on Dec 11, 2009 20:30:16 GMT -5
I'm a naysayer, but will probably be seeing it this weekend with the family. Will report back as to whether or not I'm colored surprised (which, apparently, is a shade of blue?).
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Post by xJASONx on Dec 11, 2009 21:58:56 GMT -5
I really want to see it.
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Post by JoshShark on Dec 11, 2009 22:55:58 GMT -5
I have no idea what the fuck Avatar is about. Isn't it an anime?
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Post by Tanya on Dec 11, 2009 23:29:32 GMT -5
I have no idea what the fuck Avatar is about. I know, I watched some 10 minute thing about it on TNT or something the other day and at first it was about marines in the future, then it was about Kimahri from FFX?
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Post by Jessticles on Dec 12, 2009 1:01:36 GMT -5
He wrote and directed Terminator 2 and directed Aliens. That alone should give naysayers who've yet to see it pause. Pretty much the only reason why I'm possibly going to see it. Otherwise, it doesn't hold much interest for me.
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Post by twhneal on Dec 12, 2009 4:51:56 GMT -5
"Wow. James Cameron pulled it off. I was a big skeptic about Avatar ever since I saw the promotional footage Cameron showed at last summer's San Diego Comic-Con; the effects, the characters, the hype -- none of them were affecting me even though I really wanted them to. I suffered through every Delgo or FernGully or Dances With Wolves joke -- and even made a few myself, I'll admit -- and remain shocked that we're a week away from the movie's release and no one in the general population seems to be buzzing about the movie let alone fully understands what the hell it's about. But neither the film's marketing nor the sizzle reel roadshow that 20th Century Fox and Cameron went on have done Avatar justice. You just have to see it to believe it."
Everyone seems to be saying the same thing.
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Post by xbeerdrinkerx on Dec 12, 2009 5:56:13 GMT -5
From Ebert's review, take it or leave it: Watching "Avatar," I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977. That was another movie I walked into with uncertain expectations. James Cameron's film has been the subject of relentlessly dubious advance buzz, just as his "Titanic" was. Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely. and... It takes a hell of a lot of nerve for a man to stand up at the Oscarcast and proclaim himself King of the World. James Cameron just got re-elected. rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091211/REVIEWS/912119998
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Post by stranger on Dec 12, 2009 8:43:25 GMT -5
He wrote and directed Terminator 2 and directed Aliens. That alone should give naysayers who've yet to see it pause. I just got done watching Aliens again. I wasn't psyched before for Avatar but this turned that around.
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Post by Ben on Dec 12, 2009 20:12:34 GMT -5
I've seen plenty of James Cameron films, but I still refuse to pay to see Avatar.
I quite enjoyed the Brian Bendis review of it though, that my friend posted on tumblr.
"And boy is it a James Cameron movie. I mean, right down to it.
Spectacle like no ones bidness, heavy handed themes laid down with a sledgehammer, and if he ever wrote an intelligent line of dialogue it would die of loneliness.
Every single character in the movie is from another Cameron movie, Ribisi plays Paul Reiser from aliens, Michelle Rodrigez plays the hispanic girl from Aliens and there’s a hard nose military guy that would have been played Lance Hendrickson in another day. Oh and Signorney Weaver plays Ripley. Very well.
The good news is they have left the amazing imagery off the trailers. You have not seen how amazing the film looks and feels. And it is not boring.
The movies music is 6 out of the 7 notes of the Titanic theme to the point where many of us were laughing. and the ‘not celine dion but might as well be’ song has the audience burst out in laughter when i think he wants us to sit in awe.
Enjoy the blue people, enjoy uhura delivering another amazing performance, enjoy the dragons vs transformers (because that’s all the movie really is) and enjoy the rifftrax of this coming next spring. it will be hilarious!"
Keep in mind, I haven't seen it, so I can't verify, or dismiss any of that review.
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Post by leoz maxwell jilliumz on Dec 13, 2009 2:06:15 GMT -5
Spectacle like no ones bidness, heavy handed themes laid down with a sledgehammer, and if he ever wrote an intelligent line of dialogue it would die of loneliness. lmao
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Post by russe on Dec 15, 2009 3:52:51 GMT -5
I love Bendis.
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