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Cameron surpassed spielburg for me, at T2. That movie beat out any movie for me as a kid(though jurassic park is close) Also like avatar or not it's 100x better than titanic.
For me it was Aliens. Jaws and Raiders would take Aliens and T2 any day of the week. |
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Venkman
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I aged from 11 to 16 in the time between Raiders and Aliens 2 though. Both are solid movies, and those would be two movies I'd be flipping between if they were both on. But I was a different person at Raiders than I was for Aliens. THAT span of five years is a lot different than me going from 34 to 39  |
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By the way, I really don't want to hear shit about inflation from 1997 to 2010. If we're going to play that game, Gone With The Wind owns everything, and Titanic isn't even top five.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Jaws was before my time and it has not aged well at all. Raiders is still awesome though
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Sjofn
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Saw this tonight, it was fun. Yes, the plot was pretty obvious but I was happy to see that the female characters were like ... I don't want to say just as deep as the male ones, because no one was DEEP, but that's the best way I can describe it. The ladies were all actual characters instead of eye candy (Cameron's doofiness about wanting to make lead blue chick hot enough for men to want to sex up aside ... and even then, I suspect what he MEANT was that they couldn't make them SO alien people would just go "iew what" at the love story part, so "would you tap that ass" was the metric for how alien the aliens could be).
The fact I wasn't all SKIP to the END, PLEASE even though this was a long ass movie is a pretty good indicator to me as to how entertaining the movie was. No, it's not some High Art or whatever, but not everything needs to be.
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Abagadro
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Not much. It's going to pass Titanic by tomorrow and I am thinking this is going past 2B worldwide before all is said and done. |
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WindupAtheist
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Yeah, if you look at that article it says the movie has done all of $47 million in China so far, and it's staying in their 3D theaters where it does most of its business anyway.
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Finally saw it, quite enjoyed it. One of the things that struck me was how much of the stupid argument in this thread could have been avoided by paying attention to basic plot points.  |
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Kitsune
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So, if they were in a place that fucked up signal transmissions, how did dude manage to remote desktop into his avatar there? And how did they get the 'horse clan of the plains' onto the floating mountain? Because space horses don't really look flight-capable. And after they got the space horses on the mountain, why didn't they have a better military plan from the ex-marine than 'run straight at the guys with machine guns'? Speaking of which, why were ground troops on the floating mountain that they were going to just bomb from the air? |
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I think the fight at the end was taking place on the actual ground UNDER a bunch of flying mountains.
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Yeah, the battle on the ground and the place they were bombing were all on the ground. They were just flying through floating mountains on the way.
Having said that, WTF was the point of the ground battle? I thought the entire mission was to fly over the sacred tree and bomb it. There was no reason to drop anybody on the ground that I saw. Well, other than to have a battle scene in the movie.
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Abagadro
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WUA. Paging WUA to the Avatar thread. WUA.
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WUA. Paging WUA to the Avatar thread. WUA.
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WindupAtheist
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You know what? Nope, not even as a joke.
Suffice it to say, yes there are lots of ways for a spacefaring civilization to make things terribly unfair for a spear-carrying one, even if the natives are super strong and magic radiation means the spacefarers have to aim their death rays by eyeball.
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Venkman
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Having said that, WTF was the point of the ground battle? I thought the entire mission was to fly over the sacred tree and bomb it. There was no reason to drop anybody on the ground that I saw. Well, other than to have a battle scene in the movie.
All the AA batteries on the ground. Anyone here could have vomited a better story that made more sense for people who like to think about such things. But that's why we're not getting handed $400mil budgets either. Instead, we get the sci-fi/fantasy section at Barnes & Noble |
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I'm seeing more cynical backlash now. The Abridged Script is also available. SAM and ZOE go to HOMETREE and meet ZOE’S FATHER, WES STUDI.
BLUE WES STUDI
Welcome to my village, Sam Worthington. I am Wes, a Cherokee actor. You’ve already met my Latina daughter Zoe, and this is my wife, CCH Pounder, a black actresses. Over here is Laz Alonso, who hates you.
BLUE LAZ ALONSO
I am also played by a black actor.
BLUE SAM WORTHINGTON
Wow, nice to know the casting session was just as awkwardly racist as the rest of the movie. |
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Sheepherder
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James Cameron is convinced every movie would be better with battlemechs. To be fair, he’s probably right. |
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James Cameron is convinced every movie would be better with battlemechs. To be fair, he’s probably right. That might make Titanic watchable. |
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Demetra
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I would pay good money to have a version of Titanic that just skipped the boring love story. Just the movie about the ship and her history.
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I would pay good money to have a version of Titanic that just skipped the boring love story. Just the movie about the ship and her history.
I don't think much about the movie had anything to do with the history of the ship except that it sank on it's maiden voyage. Though I do agree that the movie would have been 100000x better if it was just the boat sinking parts. |
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Venkman
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Or it sunk because of the battlemech attack. Also, FYI, no battlemechs in Abyss and True Lies. |
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LK
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Schwarzenegger was a battlemech in his prime.
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James Cameron is convinced every movie would be better with battlemechs. To be fair, he’s probably right. I hope he makes a movie about a game forum where half the people say that battlemechs are the wave of the future and will elevate warfare to a whole new level, while the other half use science to tell them why they're full of shit. The pro-mech forum guys get together and build a mech or something in an abandoned warehouse and set out to prove the world wrong. They are promptly foiled when an annoyed eighty year old man walks up behind the mech and immobilizes it by sticking his cane in the ankle joint. The remaining hour of the film is the old man yelling racist stuff about Koreans at the terrified nerds in the cockpit. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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James Cameron is convinced every movie would be better with battlemechs. To be fair, he’s probably right. I hope he makes a movie about a game forum where half the people say that battlemechs are the wave of the future and will elevate warfare to a whole new level, while the other half use science to tell them why they're full of shit. The pro-mech forum guys get together and build a mech or something in an abandoned warehouse and set out to prove the world wrong. They are promptly foiled when an annoyed eighty year old man walks up behind the mech and immobilizes it by sticking his cane in the ankle joint. The remaining hour of the film is the old man yelling racist stuff about Koreans at the terrified nerds in the cockpit. Starring Clint Eastwood and Michael Cera |
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pxib
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Fund it.
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taolurker
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
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WindupAtheist
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I get a cameo.
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Oban
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Also, FYI, no battlemechs in Abyss ...
The mini-subs and dive suits do not count? |
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Sheepherder
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angry.bob: That has little to do with the phenomenon of mechs being concentrated awesome.
Oban: It's a Newt Suit.
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Oban
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Oban: It's a Newt Suit.
Metal armour? Check. Motorized propulsion? Check. Battery powered? Check. Hands capable of crushing bone? Check. Battlemech. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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Either way, Avatar was a better movie for having the mech suits.
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