This is what James Cameron sees when he closes his eyes.
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This looks like the most high budget otherkin porn ever made.
That said, I will probably still watch it.
Will I see Avatar based on the review? Mmm, probably not.
Loved that shit when I was little.
Excellent movie, enough action to keep it good, enough romance to satisfy the teeny boppers (and they actually glow just like New Moon), plus a really over told story about greedy Humans and the depths to which they will sink to acquire things.
I saw it in 3D and it was done well. None of the crappy flying in your face every few seconds like "Final Destination".
Cameron better hope that word of mouth works very well because this hog cost over $500 million dollars to make. It will take several weeks of blockbuster weekends to make that tidy sum up.
I wonder if he bought any Carbon Credits to offset all the computer processing power that went into this?
That Cameron doesn't miss a trick.
If it somehow were biologically possible, I would ask you to have my children. Well, after marrying me, depending of course which state you live in.
but If you really think its great maybe I'll check it out...
Have you seen the trailer in the theater recently, like in the last 2 or 3 weeks? They re-cut the thing from the first trailer I saw, which made it look about 40% more awesome in my opinion.
god I hate nerd jokes.....
But I suspect you have a lot higher tolerance for terrible writing and gaping plot holes than I do.
xo
Sigourney Weaver's interview on "The Daily Show" actually got me more interested than i would have been with just seeing the previews.
click!
this means war.
At least until the ship was well on its way towards sinking.
I'm sure you've seen Papyrus:
http://xkcd.com/590/
I'm sure you've seen Papyrus:
http://xkcd.com/590/
Plot holes.
In AVATAR.
Ok so in tabletop gaming (best way to start a sentence ever?), there's a concept called: SUSPEND DISBELIEF. It's entirely self explanatory, and it enables fun-having.
Y'know. Fun?
BTW - just how much cocaine do you reckon has gone up Cameron's nose? He has that cokehead "my face is about to implode at any moment look" going on somethin' fierce.
And fuck the Lindy haters. I'm apparently not alone here in thinking that she's really fuckin' funny.
Now that we're all clear on this point, you can quit posting your nasty comments every time she posts a column or review.
@26 It's exactly that, but visually just incredibly, incredibly amazing.
@61 That sounds like an excellent plan.
Everyone go see it.
PS I love you Lindy.
The problem lies in the fact that we keep giving blowjobs to all these twats who think having plot-holes is a valid/expected/acceptable characteristic to perform in any any storytelling. We need to stop it, its not a virtue to be admired or even tolerated....its just shitty storytelling...plain and simple....asking someone to "SUSPEND DISBELIEF" is asking them to become a thoughtless drone..... a shit vacuum..... a vomit sponge.
please, lets take a step forward in screenplays for once..... even shitty action films
Worse than that - what about the racism? Stop rewarding prejudiced moviemaking with your $$. Ditto Transformers 2.
Remember in Titanic when that guy falls of the ship and his legs hit the propeller and he goes into a cart wheel on his descent to the freezing ocean.
That was AWESOME. I laughed.
this made me laugh
I mean, c'mon. What, you want Mudede to review everything instead?
To me a movie review should tell me why or why not I should watch a movie--whether it's entertaining or thought provoking. Otherwise, it would be a film school-style analysis of the technical aspects of the film that I couldn't give a rat's arse about.
I just wish Cameron wasn't such a piss-ant primadonna that he can't recognize that his films would be THAT MUCH BETTER if he'd hand off the scripting to someone else. There were so many times that the dialogue had me chuckling in embarrassment (Could he really be serious? Is he having a laugh?). By the end I had a headache, but I wasn't sure if it was because of the 3D or all the eye-rolling I was doing. Surely $300M could've purchased a decent script? Jeez, I bet Harold Pinter would've risen from the dead and written it for that price.
And the critique: I'm not overly impressed by the review. I prefer being addressed as if I were an adult, most of the time.
@42 and @55: Prepare yourselves...all the subtitles are in Papyrus.
Awesome funny review, Lindy. I emailed it to some friends in the sticks who were hesitating seeing this psychedelic CGI-fest.
And the movie was totally awesome. Good news: the right-wing nut columnists at the NYT are already dissing the flick for its "heavy-handed enviro/pantheism message" (READ: Hollywood=devil worshipers). Any movie that pisses the Right off is worth seeing.
Lindy West's review is not very good. She trashes the only female actor (I guess she doesn't like competition). She is also troubled by the "clumsy indictment" of the army. Maybe she is just uncomfy knowing that her attraction to big powerful thugs is shallow and wants to believe said thugs are actually heroes. Yes somewhere buried underneath the thick neck of that evil general is a heart that can be tamed haha.
I also don't get the animosity toward Sigourney Weaver (though her costuming in one segment was fairly ridiculous).
Also, it's weird that the majority of the chicks who are posting really, really like "Lindy" and the dudes who are posting are the most annoying hipster wanna-be critics that start every response to something you like by saying "yeah, but..." See the movie, like it or not and stop over analyzing everything! It's supposed to be over the top and fun. Remember that word, fun? You used to know it when you were a child until your dad beat it out of you.
Avatar's like the original Star Wars in terms of impact, at least it deserves to be. Even if it isn't, fuck you losers, I love it.
God, what a hopeless piece of crap.
The animation in "Fern Gully" was more believable than the aweful CG in "Avatar". Disgraceful.
Seriously, pull that guys directing license.