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Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 2:49 pm

Anyone else seen this yet?

The wife and I saw it last night in an awesome theater in 3D.

If you are a fan of film at all you will pick the plot of Avatar apart. Basically I would describe it as a combination of Dances With Wolves with The Matrix. I've heard a lot of people compare it to Ferngully as well but I've never seen that.

I'd say 1/3 of the movie is live action and 2/3 is CGI. The world they created is very technically amazing. The "aliens" (Na'vi) look like blue alien cat people. The motion capture makes them look and move better than they look in still pictures. Kind of like the Smurfs, the main characters look differently enough that you can tell the difference between about six of the Na'vi, and the other 2,000 are essentially background Smurfs.

The only reason this movie is almost 3 hours long is because they wanted to show off their digital world. A two-hour cut of this movie would be way better, and you could probably get it down to 1:45 without losing any of the plot. I also didn't see any real reason it needed to be in 3D, except making it harder to bootleg I guess.

I thought it was entertaining but not life changing. I wouldn't call it a great movie and without all the surrounding hype I'm not sure it would have been a blockbuster.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:50 am

This movie earned $1 billion over the weekend and nobody else here saw it?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:02 pm

I did not see it! I have a real problem with movies with names of old video games. It's why I couldn't enjoy Descent.*

*I found out the other day the movie is called The Descent, which makes it different from the game, Descent. Whoops! Hatred: unjustified?

A few people took a long lunch and saw it at work during the two weeks we're not on a cycle in December. I didn't go with that group. I was thinking, "I'm new here, I should work, it's a long flick." Yeah, nobody cared or cares, it would have been fine.

Do you wear the 3D glasses for the entire thing? Are ALL showings of it in 3D? Isn't it a really goofy effect? I'm coming at this from a Jaws 3D perspective.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:09 am

The whole movie is in 3D, as are at least one of the trailers (Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland). The 3D glasses aren't like the old red/blue paper ones; they're plastic, Roy Orbison-style glasses with slightly tinted lenses. It's not like cheesy 3D a'la Jaws 3D or the old Three Stooges films ("Here comes a pie, look out!") ... it's more subtle and, for what it's worth, it really does immerse you into the movie more.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:08 pm

Funny thing. I bought the Coraline 3-D video and the home format was in the red / blue even though the theater version was the polarized process. I was all jacked to use the glasses that I didn't turn in at the movie house and come to find out that they don't work at home. Wonder if televisions have problems with the polarizations?

THE
PAPER SHADES
AARDVARK

jack Strawalreadytaken · Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:00 pm

Eeeew, they expect you to wear USED glasses???
Cross avatar off the list. I really wanted to see it till I heard that. yeck.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:05 pm

Oh, they pay illegal immigrants fifteen cents an hour to wipe the glasses down with those sanitary cart wipes they have at supermarkets.

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SHOULD SEE IT!
AARDVARK

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:40 pm

Ah, but who wipes down the illegal immigrants?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:54 pm

The Watchmen

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:58 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:The Watchmen

OH GOD IT'S GOT BIG BLUE DONG ALL OVER IT.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 3:12 am

I saw this tonight, and liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Is everyone going to be OK if we talk about spoilers in this thread?

milker · Post by **milker** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:49 pm

The video games are not that bad. Iphone game is playable and held my attention for a little while.

I thought the movie was great. Given the king of the world made the film, I felt apart of his royal court while watching it.

I just miss Celine Dion songs in the movie. I need a song to hear for 2 years after the movie came out to remind me of the movie.

Neeearrrr, Farrrrr, AVVVVAVVVATTTTTTT ARRRRRR, My heart will go on!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:57 pm

Spoiler Watch: It includes no Celie Dion songs!

Milker, that was an excellent post. You're bringing the wood around here lately! You're working out your body AND your mind.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:53 pm

I seen it last weekend in 3D. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in a movie theater. The plot is hackneyed, the characters two-dimensional (IRONY?) and clunky, but it matters naught.

Astounding!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:24 pm

good joke on the 2d thing.

I still want to see it trippin. Anyone got some good L? <----EVIL!!!!!!!

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:27 pm

Flack wrote:The whole movie is in 3D, as are at least one of the trailers (Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland). The 3D glasses aren't like the old red/blue paper ones; they're plastic, Roy Orbison-style glasses with slightly tinted lenses. It's not like cheesy 3D a'la Jaws 3D or the old Three Stooges films ("Here comes a pie, look out!") ... it's more subtle and, for what it's worth, it really does immerse you into the movie more.

That's a damn shame. I'm blind in one eye, so 3D doesn't work for me. All I see are the red and blue streaks.

pinner! · Post by **pinner!** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:46 pm

Tdarcos wrote:That's a damn shame. I'm blind in one eye, so 3D doesn't work for me. All I see are the red and blue streaks.

Not that this helps, but 3D glasses aren't red/blue anymore. They're polarized. My question was, "won't this dim the picture", but apparently they already thought of that, because the picture is shown extra-bright.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:03 pm

Tdarcos wrote:
Flack wrote:The whole movie is in 3D, as are at least one of the trailers (Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland). The 3D glasses aren't like the old red/blue paper ones; they're plastic, Roy Orbison-style glasses with slightly tinted lenses. It's not like cheesy 3D a'la Jaws 3D or the old Three Stooges films ("Here comes a pie, look out!") ... it's more subtle and, for what it's worth, it really does immerse you into the movie more.
That's a damn shame. I'm blind in one eye, so 3D doesn't work for me. All I see are the red and blue streaks.

They have an audio version as well, but it's not nearly as impressive. It consists of me sitting next to you going, "THAT GUY IS CLOSER THAN THE OTHER GUY."

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:24 pm

That was funny as hell!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:24 pm

pinner! wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:That's a damn shame. I'm blind in one eye, so 3D doesn't work for me. All I see are the red and blue streaks.
Not that this helps, but 3D glasses aren't red/blue anymore. They're polarized. My question was, "won't this dim the picture", but apparently they already thought of that, because the picture is shown extra-bright.

Blast! I really want to get a digital camera, shoot a text game that has left and right eye photos, and then use the red and blue thing for a 3D effect.

I was hoping the one net positive to our culture that Avatar could give us was pre-loading the red and blue 3D glasses for everyone.

But no.