Author
|
Topic: Avatar (Read 176086 times)
|
Ratman_tf
Terracotta Army
Posts: 3818
|
So you are saying that by using overly brutal means to wipe out an entire city of a society that has zero ways to stop it is not something that should elicit an emotional response?
Remove the slowmo, remove the dramatic music, and you still would have something that humans should be reacting to.
I cried when Optimus Prime died.
|
"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation.
|
|
|
WindupAtheist
Army of One
Posts: 7028
Badicalthon
|
I cried when Optimus Prime died. I'm with you there brother! Watching Ironhide and Prowl and all those guys get blown away was shocking, but Prime biting it (in the first act no less) was some universe-shaking shit for a kid. So you are saying that by using overly brutal means to wipe out an entire city of a society that has zero ways to stop it is not something that should elicit an emotional response? It elicited an emotional response from me. Namely disappointment that they didn't drop an asteroid on it.
|
"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
|
|
|
Tale
Terracotta Army
Posts: 8558
sıɥʇ ǝʞıן sʞןɐʇ
|
Dances with wolves won an oscar, but it was also boring as hell. I'm not even the biggest avatar fan, hell I only saw it once but dances with wolves was not a great movie. Go back, re-watch it.
You know what? I did rewatch Dances With Wolves. I actually went and got a considered opinion of my own, instead of being an internet asshole. Unlike Avatar, it's a great movie. Unexpectedly, I enjoyed rewatching Dances With Wolves. It deserved the awards. Please use the space below to make me look more uncool.
|
|
|
|
Tarami
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1980
|
I like Dances with Wolves. I may even think it's great. What's wrong with it?
|
- I'm giving you this one for free. - Nothing's free in the waterworld.
|
|
|
Abagadro
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12227
Possibly the only user with more posts in the Den than PC/Console Gaming.
|
If you think DwW deserved Best Picture over Goodfellas you are nuts.
|
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
|
|
|
Samwise
Moderator
Posts: 19212
sentient yeast infection
|
So I Netflixed this and am almost done watching it. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, although I'm glad I didn't have to watch it in a single sitting in a theater because it's looong.
The Navi remind me of big blue Mudokons, and make me think there needs to be an Oddworld movie.
|
"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
|
|
|
Reg
Terracotta Army
Posts: 5270
|
I can't imagine watching it outside of a theater. The whole point to the movie was the 3d. As has been repeated (endlessly) the movie isn't a big deal other than that.
|
|
|
|
Teleku
Terracotta Army
Posts: 10510
https://i.imgur.com/mcj5kz7.png
|
You can put me down in the "Liked Dances with Wolves" category. It was a good movie!
|
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
|
|
|
DLRiley
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1982
|
This movie ending pissed me off royally.
|
|
|
|
WindupAtheist
Army of One
Posts: 7028
Badicalthon
|
Whyzat?
|
"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
|
|
|
bhodi
Moderator
Posts: 6817
No lie.
|
Can we stop talking about this shitty, shitty movie?
|
|
|
|
Rishathra
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1059
|
This movie ending pissed me off royally.
Whyzat? ^^^
|
"...you'll still be here trying to act cool while actually being a bored and frustrated office worker with a vibrating anger-valve puffing out internet hostility." - Falconeer "That looks like English but I have no idea what you just said." - Trippy
|
|
|
DLRiley
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1982
|
Whyzat?
Really the hollywood happy ending was making me shake my head. I was waiting for someone to nuke the planet from orbit...
|
|
« Last Edit: July 18, 2010, 05:08:32 PM by DLRiley »
|
|
|
|
|
Samwise
Moderator
Posts: 19212
sentient yeast infection
|
That part of the ending didn't make any sense to me either. We got really lucky and defeated these stooges of the incredibly evil and greedy corporation so now they'll go away and leave us alone forever! They wouldn't POSSIBLY come back better-prepared and blow all our shit up so they can get the incredibly valuable moon rocks! That would just be WRONG of them!
Unless there was some bit of dialogue I missed in there that explained how now that the planet's "woken up" it can bat offensive ships out of orbit, or how now the unobtanium is worthless for some reason, or how people back on Earth found out what these shitheels were up to and their entire board has been executed as a result.
|
"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
|
|
|
Chimpy
Terracotta Army
Posts: 10618
|
It is called "leaving room for a sequel," duh.
|
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
|
|
|
Ratman_tf
Terracotta Army
Posts: 3818
|
It is called "leaving room for a sequel," duh.
Cameron's gotta sell Burger King collector's glasses and 3-D specs somehow! Made with an industry fueled by oil, oil taken by corporations and militaries from less 'advanced' cultures... oh wait.
|
"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation.
|
|
|
Abagadro
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12227
Possibly the only user with more posts in the Den than PC/Console Gaming.
|
Posting this just because I love Werner Hertzog. In an interview about a bunch of stuff including his upcoming 3D film: Q: As of now, of course, the most famous 3-D movie is Avatar…
A: I admire the achievements, the technical achievements, but the film is an abomination because of its New Age schlock and bullshit.
|
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
|
|
|
Tannhauser
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4436
|
Hey Hertzog, don't make James Cameron roll off his pile of cash to deal with you.
|
|
|
|
Abagadro
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12227
Possibly the only user with more posts in the Den than PC/Console Gaming.
|
I'm sure Werner could handle Cameron. Dude doesn't even stop interviews when he is shot in the middle of them.
|
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
|
|
|
Ratman_tf
Terracotta Army
Posts: 3818
|
|
"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation.
|
|
|
|
|