James Cameron's Avatar

[driverzx]

Saw it, it's a cool movie. The story is Dances With Wolves crossed with Star Wars. I expected it to be al "magical" and stuff, turned out not.

 

[Blue Zoidberg]

Hmm, yeah just as I suspected. Sherlock Holmes was about 2.5× better.
Least it had a story and acting.

 

[Deleted_171835]

But then the photography looks awesome.

Eh? Wasn't most of it computer generated?

It looked so realistic. The computer generated images fooled him.

The cake is a lie.

 

[Chaz.]

Great film, I enjoyed it alot! Great story. Even better watching it in premier seats

 

[_Burai_]

ye that was one awesome movie, probably one of my favorites now.

That orange dragon thing was badass. (can't remember the name lol)

 

[Guild McCommunist]

In film class today my teacher read us an article in Entertainment Weekly about two of the movie reviewers Top 10 movies for the year. Guess what? Avatar wasn't in either of them. This is what they said essentially:

Avatar is gorgeous looking. A true shocker of visuals. Still, it may look pretty but the story isn't. It's simply Dances With Wolves in space, without much in the way of gripping plot or memorable characters.

I haven't seen it, but all this hype and people raving about how amazing it is makes me think this. People keep saying "OH IT'S LIFE CHANGING" when quite honestly I just don't think it will be for me. I think I'll like it, hell I may even want it on DVD, but will it change me like some other films have? Nope.

 

[Depravo]

 

[alidsl]

lol @ Depravo

 

[admotonic]

Well its my new favourite movie. Just wish I could see it in 3d though cause my closest cinema is shitty and cant show 3d movies

 

[Edgedancer]

I personally loved it. I understand that is can be considered extremely generic in terms of the story but the world that is created blew me away. I found myself smiling during most of the movie due to the amazing vista's.

 

[KingdomBlade]

I loved it. The visuals were spectacular and the story was great. (for me anyway) I also loved the message which no one else seemed to care about. All they said was "Ooo pretty, bad story, nice action...." We should just leave nature alone and let it take it's course.

 

[Slyakin]

overhyped movie was overhyped
it wasnt that good, suffered from the same problems pearly harbor suffered
great action scenes, too much bad story and love scenes

Uh... Isn't avatar about an asian kid with a giant arrow slapped on his forehead?

I agree with the quote above. It is WAY TO OVERHYPED. I didn't enjoy that movie as much as others I've seen, but it was a nice movie to watch. But I'm certainly not gonna buy the DVD. I might as well watch Dances with Wolves again.

And the Asian kid? That movie's title was changed to "The Last Airbender". Apparently, James got to the title of Avatar first.

 

[razorback78]

all i can say is that i enjoyed watching this movie.

 

[techboy]

Went to see it to find out what all the hype was about. As it turns out, it well deserved all the hype.

Saw it on Saturday in 2D (no 3D at our Regal Cinema). By far the best movie i've seen in 3 years, and I've seen quite a few.

The story was good, but left a little something to be desired. Now the question is, when (if?) a sequel comes out, where will they start off? After all, the humans abandoned their failed attempt to mine "unobtainium" (i almost lol'd in the theater at the name). I suppose they could focus more on the life of the Navi.

I went with my mom, and would love to see it again if my dad (who stayed home to watch the Eagles v. Cowboys game, eagles lost

) decides to go see it.

Some stills from the movie are my desktop wallpaper now...

 

[The Catboy]

My boy friend took me to see it last Saturday,
It wasn't half bad, the first part was clearly Pocahontas, but then they killed the chief and said Fuck it. And through in some battle for the ending.
Otherwise it was ok

 

[Arwen20]

I haven't seen it yet, but I want to. This movie looks wonderful!

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Anyway, I saw it in IMAX 3-D, so the full experience.

It's very engrossing and the 3-D is really good. It wasn't like jutting out of the screen 3-D, but it was the casual, always-on 3-D that got you engaged. The plot itself was still Pocohantas in Space, but it was pretty good for that. It had it's fair twist and turns for what I expected to be a predictable plot. It was very good, just not great. Star Trek was better overall, though.

 

[techboy]

Just got back from seeing it...for the second time. I loved it the first time, and thought it was even better the second time around.

Can't wait for a sequel.

 

[alidsl]

We'll have a sequel in 7 years

 

[techboy]

The reason it took so long was because Cameron had to invent the Pandoran world and develop the Na'vi culture and language (Na'vi is now a documented language...look on Wikipedia).

He was live on Oprah the other day and said that when he does a sequel, it shouldn't take nearly as #1 did.

I'm guessing Xmas 2011 or Spring 2012. Most sequels come about 2 or 3 years later.