Merry Christmas and Avatar!

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Cheers from the Great White North! If you celebrate Christmas, best wishes. If you celebrate Hanukkah, I hope the crab rangoons are boss. If you are like me and celebrate everything and nothing (UU is the orange wine of faith) kick ass.

I just got back from seeing Avatar with Joe Dressner and Victor de la Serna. I must say, visually impressive. "FernGully" on steroids. I can't help but compare it to "District 9" - which I consider a better film - while Avatar is the better movie. By the way, I just looked it up and Kevin James' "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" made more money than "District 9"; what the fuck?

Anyway, both "District 9" and "Avatar" are worth watching and should be considered as thinking man's blockbuster action films.

That is all.
 
Haven't seen it in the theater and probably won't, since we don't get out much and gravity is such a chore, but it has been an amazing thing to read rave review after rave review (from the professionals) in which nearly everyone agrees that the "plot" is a steaming pile of crap.
 
we just went yesterday and thought it was exhilarating in a basic action film kind of way. casting people who don't exist is yes tough, but the non-stop unknown critter and scenery visuals was the main point....typical storyline notwithstanding.

now, was there really a need for it to be in 3-D? we thought not...unless that was a director's means to draw attention away from how CGI the CGI looked. hey, it's a bucket of popcorn and a 2 beer movie.
 
originally posted by Erwin Dink:
beg to differAvatar's animation was admittedly impressive but this is what I said:

a gigantic bioluminescent turd
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You see much, Erwin son of Eomund. Too much.
You are banished forthwith from the Kingdom of Rohan (nerd).

The plot may has struggled to put new flesh on old bones, but it at least took old bones and made them bone senbei.

In school I minored in animation due mostly to my love of stop-motion animation (think Ray Harryhausen). In 3D, Avatar finally made me a believer of blue screen animation. I'm probably dating myself to you young fellows, but in my lifetime I have been rendered immobile by the big screen with effects three times - Return of the Jedi - Jurassic Park - Avatar 3D.

Boom.
 
Stop quoting the movie version's made-up lines. It's lame.

Not Smagol & Shelob? Those are still unmatched in the pre-Avatar film world, I think.

And isn't it all green, rather than blue, these days?
 
While you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to conquer galaxies! (nerd!)
 
originally posted by Thor:
How's that going?
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It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other...(nerd)
 
Also, sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question is an answer. (nerd)
 
article in today's nyt about the battle of the glasses....

anybody out there think that 3-D is just as possible by projecting the movie onto a few layers of screens of different densities/materials and just dispense with the glasses idea altogether?
 
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