Quote from: Ian Absentia;355628Okay, here's an amusing criticism I found of the film:



See? Complete with anti-civilisationism and race-treason.

!i!

I liked the movie, but that is pretty amusing.

Its amusing because it works. You could remove all the obvious corrections and retype it and most people would allow how it does more or less describe the movie, without realizing that it was a rewrite of the description of pocohontas.

Except it really doesn't, because it skips half the movie, instantly going from Jake and Neytiri meeting to the final battle without anything in between, and just plain lying about the ending - the Na'vi and Weyland-Yutani do not kiss and make up.

It seems to have crossed the $1.6 billion line this weekend.

My son and I were turned away from three sold-out theaters just yesterday afternoon.  You have to plan well in advance to buy tickets to a movie that's been out for weeks.

!i!

In other news, it just won Golden Globes for best direction and best movie.

I am also very, very happy that Kevin Bacon took a Globe for Taking Chance.

Quote from: Ian Absentia;355975My son and I were turned away from three sold-out theaters just yesterday afternoon.  You have to plan well in advance to buy tickets to a movie that's been out for weeks.

!i!

The first show I tried to see was sold out. Had better luck with an 11 pm showing.

Well, I suppose this was a matter of time:

Quote'Avatar' to be made into a porn parody

James Cameron's sci-fi epic "Avatar" will be made into a porn parody by Hustler, a leader in exclusive porn content.

Bosses at Hustler, a leader in exclusive porn content, are planning a porn parody of James Cameron's sci-fi epic "Avatar".

"This Ain't Avatar XXX" is among the DVD releases planned by the company this year, following the success of porn parodies of TV shows such as "Star Trek", "Beverly Hills 90210", and "Saved By The Bell".

The news came a day after "Avatar" was voted the best motion picture at the Golden Globe Awards.

Avatar for Haiti: donate the cost of a movie ticket to the American Red Cross, UNICEF, or Doctors Without Borders.

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David R

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I thought the same thing.  Then I read the website.

!i!

I saw Avatar a second time on Friday, in 3D this time. Not only was the film better in 3D, but I think knowing that the plot wasn't the reason I was in the theater made the film much, much more enjoyable.

Say, is there anything in the credits besides credits?

Seanchai

We stayed all the way through, no Easter Eggs - at least in our showing.

Quote from: Seanchai;357371I saw Avatar a second time on Friday, in 3D this time. Not only was the film better in 3D...

Okay, I've wanted to ask if anyone else experienced this phenomenon.

When I first put the glasses on and began watching the previews, my eyes and brain required a minute or two to figure out how to focus properly.  They did, of course, by the time the film started (thus, the reason they start the 3D effect during the previews), and I was promptly wowed and blown away...for about the first half of the film.  Somewhere about halfway through, I began to notice the 3D effects only sporadically, and by the end of the film I found that I really needed to concentrate on noticing anything special.  It's as if my mind had normalised the effect, and it seemed like just watching a normal 2D film.  My wife joked that maybe they ran out of budget and simply produced the last half of the film in 2D.

Anyone else notice this?

!i!

Yup, I noticed that too. Actually by that point it "felt" more like being there to me than the obvious 3-D quality for the first little bit.