Demoncarnotaur
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Lol the plot was simple and relateable, but the same can be said for a ton of other movies. How does it count as a pile of shit?
I never get the Avatar hate.. it must have got too much hype for its own good or something.
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Lol the plot was simple and relateable, but the same can be said for a ton of other movies. How does it count as a pile of shit?
I never get the Avatar hate.. it must have got too much hype for its own good or something.
Anticitizen One
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LMAO @ Episode II poster in the background. Cameron is a prequels fan
SCULLIBUNDO
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It's the result of being the most successful film of all time. On the bright side, Titanic has stopped bearing the brunt of a lot of hate since Avatar took up the mantle.
Everybody bitching will still see the film two or three times in cinemas.
BrokenEchelon
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I will not be purchasing movie tickets for Avatar 2 or 3.
The Mana Legend
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Can I have images of someone else writing the screenplay, please?
BrokenEchelon
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SCULLIBUNDO
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Cameron has such a bad track record with writing sequels. Oh wait.
BrokenEchelon
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crazy monkey
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goat is the best part. looks better then avatar and 3D.
PsihoPerihelion
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SCULLIBUNDO
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Because he wrote that film? Bad enough that he didn't even really direct it (for more than six days).
SlowRevolution
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He must have been so happy that they have FROM THE DIRECTOR OF TITANIC up there. I'm surprised he didn't buy every copy so he could burn them all.
It's a piece of shit because they spent so much time on the visual effects and so little time on the cast and the story.
If you take a simple story we've all heard several times before, and wrap it in 300 million dollars worth of special effects, it's not going to be a more enjoyable story.
Is it a piece of shit? Proportionally, yes it is. The amount of money that went into it did not yield a memorable, thought-provoking film.
Thus, it is a turd. Just an absolute turd.
Something Wicked
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However, a human remotely controls a Na'vi avatar that remotely controls a robot, which infiltrates the mine. Much robot sex ensues.
SCULLIBUNDO
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So much salt in this thread.
You can just tell people are sharpening their knives to take the sequel apart already. Just another day for Cameron.
You can just tell people are sharpening their knives to take the sequel apart already. Just another day for Cameron.
It's hardly surprising.
BrokenEchelon
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IN A WORLD WHERE CAMERON HAS ONLY ONE FAN WHO STILL DEFENDS AVATAR
HE MUST FIGHT THE HORDES
TO SURVIVE ANOTHER DAY
STARRING SCULLIBUNDO AS "THE DEFENDER"
WITH GUY PEARCE PLAYING THE VOICE OF AN ANAMATRONIC GUY PEARCE
AND INTRODUCING JIMMY FALLON AS JIMMY, A YOUNG BOY WHO LEARNS THAT MOVIE OPINIONS ARE MORE THAN JUST BLACK AND WHITE
THIS SUMMER: GUY ON INTERNET DEFENDS MULTIMILLIONAIRE WHO LOST HIS WAY A DECADE AGO.
Produced by Michael Bay
SCULLIBUNDO
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Get ready for three more years of nothing threads. I can't wait.
PhoenixDark
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That's a good description of the first film.
Thanks.
SCULLIBUNDO
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$200m USD?
All I remember from Avatar is tail sex
AdventureRacing
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Hopefully this time they're good movies. I love basically every cameron movie but avatar just wasn't any good.
Demoncarnotaur
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Heh. That makes sense at least.
I mean, I get the movie may not be the best movie ever made, so people may be frustrated by its earnings.. but in no way is it a bad movie. I fucking love the world Cameron built. Amazing visuals.
A bit soon to say that, isn't it?
SCULLIBUNDO
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Go find the Avatar Rottenwatch thread and read through the majority if GAF's impressions upon release. Everybody was eating the film up. Then it became the most successful film of all time (read: super mainstream).
Ninja Scooter
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Hipsters? What the fuck are you talking about?
I was hating on Avatar before it was cool.
The people who go to Midnight Showings and premiere are generally predisposed to like whatever they're going to. As more skeptics and less enthusiastic viewers start to show up in the weeks that follow, general opinion generally turns worse.
"They just don't like it cause it made a lot of money" is a really dumb way to respond to the movie's detractors.
At a certain point after release it totally became the thing to do when you were talking about the movie, or just movies.
Obviously I'm generalizing, but it was definitely the case with the people I was around.
Haha, touché.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Dude. I'm talking about the first few weeks and MONTHS of discussion in there while people were seeing it. There were no midnight sessions for Avatar.
No midnight openings? Are you sure? I'm almost positive my brother went to one.
The Mana Legend
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I was laughing hysterically at the movie theater when I first saw Avatar the night it was released. I was hyped as shit for the movie.
I'm usually a really quiet and respectful movie goer. But I couldn't take some of that shit seriously. Blue cat lady crying was when I started nearly crying from laughter. Fucking awful.
The writing and acting were god awful. The visuals and directing almost saved it, but the writing and acting was so bad that I spent most of my time laughing at unintentionally terrible/funny scenes and cringing than I did in "awe" of the visuals.
Can Crusher
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Cameron played it safe with Avatar. But after it made almost 3 billion at the box office alone, I'm sure he's gonna feel free to make the next ones so much better that we are gonna need an eject button in the cinema seats, because not everybody is gonna be able to absorb the amount of amaze.
BotoxAgent
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Love Avatar, the world Cameron created. I was just in sheer awe when i saw this in IMAX in 3D. I was totally immersed. Although watching it at home, it loses a little bit of that wonder on the small screen. But man, Cameron knows how to shoot beautiful action scenes. I remember when I was waiting in line at the theater, I can never forgot the look on some of those people faces when they were leaving their showing--you know u were in for a treat. It came in the right time to. That year I was growing really ambivalent towards popcorn flicks. Avatar really got the bad taste of Michael Bay and Rolan Emmerich out of my mouth.
But I really hated Sam Worthington though, he's the definition of generic action hero.
But I really hated Sam Worthington though, he's the definition of generic action hero.
That's the new insult.
"You guys don't like this movie/game/book/actor? You must be a bunch of hipsters."
In the annals of history, how will Avatar be remembered? Answer: It won't.
Films that push the boundaries of visual effects are lost in the shuffle of other films that push the boundaries of visual effects. Memorable films will be remembered for memorable performances, memorable scenes, memorable plots, and other things completely unrelated to graphics. Avatar doesn't have a single memorable line or scene. It's nothing.
If you don't believe me, search Neogaf for gifs of Avatar. Nobody really bothered to make any because not a single scene in that film conveys any emotion in a memorable manner.
On the other hand:
Memorable. Gif-worthy.
Memorable.
Mediocre film with excellent action scenes.
Memorable film.
Avatar is a shot for shot remake of childhood disappointment.
BotoxAgent
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Can't wait to hear your hilarious predictions for this one. Should be entertaining. lol
faceless007
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I'd love to know how you came to that conclusion.
I'll be happy to prove you wrong about it, by the way.
AdventureRacing
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Whilst i agree that the movie has no memorable scenes you haven't seen many of scullis posts if you think this.
Besides gifs made by Sculli, I doubt anyone else bothered.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Because most people apparently complain about how unoriginal and vapid it is, yet the first film's box office indicates that almost everybody went to see it multiple times. Hell, GAF's most vocal detractor (artist) went and saw it multiple times. People love to hate on it, but secretly love it.
No idea what you're talking about. I personally attended a midnight premiere of Avatar.
I don't think opinions turned really sour on the film for a little while, but there were plenty of relatively muted reactions right off the bat. "It's not a great movie, but it's really more of an experience than a movie!" and other such comments that ended up being a nice way of saying "Great special effects and art design, but a bloated and tiresome story".
AdventureRacing
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My complaints have nothing to do with originality and i didn't see it multiple times. What you're saying here essentially amounts to the movie being above criticism because it's so popular. If you truly believe what you're saying than it just makes your constant mocking of nolan fans even worse.
BrokenEchelon
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That is some impressive delusion.
Remember how Star Wars blew people away when it came out because of the special effects that ended up redefining the industry? (It also had a basic Hero's Journey story, but also had a charismatic cast).
Avatar was the equivalent of that with 3D. It was the first time most people saw a big budget 3D film after Hollywood attempted to bring it back in an effort to get people to go to the movies again. I have no problems admitting that the 3D stuff was visually very cool, but if you for a second think people went in there to watch Space Marine Joe's character development or the intricate plot about fucking Unobtanium then you live in a pathetic little world that includes your mind and little else.
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