|
Post by formermi6agent on Jan 3, 2010 17:44:51 GMT -5
Anyone seen Avatar yet?
|
|
|
Post by Lauryn on Jan 9, 2010 12:53:01 GMT -5
I have, though not in 3-D so I know I've missed half the fun! My husband can't ever fit those 3-D glasses around his own big ones so we had to see it in "2-D." Even then it was really eye-ravishing, even if it doesn't turn out to alter our consciousness or change movies as we know them. At least James Cameron dreams big, which is something we seem to have lost our capacity and will to do these days. I confess that I did laff my head off at one critic's assessment of the film as the "world's most expensive screen saver." And now they're ragging on the film because Sigourney Weaver was dying for a cigarette! Bad, bad environmentalist! Y'know, since most of us have Pierce avatars I think we could have loads of interesting adventures. But, for some of them I might wish he were gay, LOL!
|
|
|
Post by Ace on Jan 25, 2010 8:11:30 GMT -5
I might be the only person left who hasn't and has no desire to - but then I'm probably the only person who's never sat through 3 hours of The Titanic even on TV. 15 minutes of Jack-Rose-Jack-Rose-Jack!-Rose!-Jack!!-Rose!! had me rooting for the ship to sink and since it's a real life tragedy - well that's just wrong.
My favorite Cameron remains the first TERMINATOR before he had a budget and had to actually work with a script to go along with his concepts instead of special effects and CGI.
|
|
|
Post by Lauryn on Jan 25, 2010 21:28:19 GMT -5
Don't get me started on "Titanic"! If cliches and woeful acting could sink a ship the iceberg would have been superfluous. I had an aversion to Kate Winslet for ages after, until I saw her, in "Quills", of all things, with Geoffrey Rush; she was so natural and charming I couldn't believe it was the same actress.
I didn't even care for the CGI in "Titanic." It had such a flat dimension-less look to it at the time. "Avatar" is leap forward in that department, for sure, enough to sweep you gracefully along, though it still suffers from Titanic-esque cardboard characters and bad writing.
Yeah, all that old fashioned stuff, like good storytelling, LOL!
|
|
|
Post by formermi6agent on Jan 27, 2010 1:21:31 GMT -5
Avatar just sunk Titanic at the box office worldwide.
|
|