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Surlyboi
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Surlyboi's sequel. Humans come back and use a mass driver to drop a mile-long asteroid on the Navi as they're having their "let's make Jake one of us" love-in. The end. |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Teleku
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Or perhaps in the sequel Jake could declare himself God Emperor and send the Navi out to conquer earth and all the known Galaxy , then maintain control by his monopoly on unobtainium.
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"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."
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Tannhauser
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I still say the humans should have slant-drilled down under the spirit tree.
I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!
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Tarami
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Oh God. I think the breaking moment for me was when she fell in love with a dandelion seed.
And don't get me wrong, I too think it's very very pretty but I can't stand some aspects of the script.
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« Last Edit: April 26, 2010, 05:00:44 AM by Tarami »
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- I'm giving you this one for free.
- Nothing's free in the waterworld.
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Sir T
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Be thankful they could not greenlight a sequel to Titanic...
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Hic sunt dracones.
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HaemishM
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Yeah, yeah. We get it. You guys are jaded. It says right in the title. The reason to watch this movie is to experience living on a truly Alien world.
It's a theme park ride, I get that. Only it's a movie instead and as a movie, it should at least engross me. It's not like I expected to like it. As a story, it's a lackluster but pretty failure. Pandora didn't interest me enough as a setting to make me care about sequels. You might as well have called it "Planet of Convenient Plot Devices." |
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UnSub
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Yeah, yeah. We get it. You guys are jaded. It says right in the title. The reason to watch this movie is to experience living on a truly Alien world.
The sci-fi world was great. Characters, narrative and acting: much less so. (To be slightly more fair: some of the acting was due to the characters in the script - there's not a lot of scope for "Evil Military Man" or "Evil Industrialist" to build themselves up as decent characters.) |
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Mrbloodworth
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This story has been told about a billion times, not sure why you guys went to it looking for story, it was given away in the trailers. The acting was good, other than that, this was a tech masturbation movie and a beautiful production, anything beyond that is applying something the move never intended to be, then damning it for it.
Reviews calling it "Dances with smurfs" was spot on. Still an awesome flick with a solid cast and a good time.
If you buy the DvD and not the blue-ray, you are shorting yourself, I myself was even temped to Waite till I have a 3d TV to get the 3d version. If you didn't see it on the big screen in full 3d, what the hell?
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Samwise
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If you didn't see it on the big screen in full 3d, what the hell?
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HaemishM
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If you buy the DvD and not the blue-ray, you are shorting yourself, I myself was even temped to Waite till I have a 3d TV to get the 3d version. If you didn't see it on the big screen in full 3d, what the hell?
I didn't feel like paying $7 (matinee prices) for a goddamn tech demo? |
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Velorath
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If you buy the DvD and not the blue-ray, you are shorting yourself, I myself was even temped to Waite till I have a 3d TV to get the 3d version. If you didn't see it on the big screen in full 3d, what the hell?
I didn't feel like paying $7 (matinee prices) for a goddamn tech demo? Instead you just spent three hours of your life watching a tech demo without the tech. |
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Mrbloodworth
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If you buy the DvD and not the blue-ray, you are shorting yourself, I myself was even temped to Waite till I have a 3d TV to get the 3d version. If you didn't see it on the big screen in full 3d, what the hell?
I didn't feel like paying $7 (matinee prices) for a goddamn tech demo? Then you missed out. |
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HaemishM
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To be fair, it did put me right to sleep.  |
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Sheepherder
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The reason to watch this movie is to experience living on a truly Alien world. watch this movie experience living on a truly Alien world. experience living on a truly Alien world. truly Alien world. truly |
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LK
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The N'aavi females have boobs to appeal to a movie-watching audience.
Nothing truly alien about that.
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Ratman_tf
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The N'aavi females have boobs
They did? |
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Mattemeo
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The N'aavi females have boobs
They did? Yes. They are mammals. With USB hair, admittedly, but hey - marsupials are pretty fuckin' weird, right? Still mammals. |
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Surlyboi
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USB is too slow, that was all fiber channel.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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LK
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I don't have an exact link but I remember the design process for Pandora and its populace. Most of it was grounded in "This will look cool / acceptable to a movie-going audience". Safe, not adventurous, in its design. Nothing wrong with that: it's what a small vocal subset will bemoan and a vast majority not so invested into the medium will enjoy.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Sheepherder
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All I'm asking for is a director's cut with headcrabs to replace the magic tree. Is that too much to ask?
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schild
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Movie was trash.
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Samwise
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I remain perversely proud of not having seen it. I always hate when people are proud of having missed a cultural experience, but the hype on this one was so overbearing for such an obviously mediocre movie that I couldn't stand to give them money. |
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Reg
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Jesus, 20 pages in and the thread is still dominated by comic book guys upset that their predictions of doom and failure for the biggest money making movie of all time came to nothing. I suppose it's because most of the rest of the world saw it months ago and have moved on.
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Rasix
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I may see it now that it's out on dvd/bluray. I haven't been to a movie theatre in nearly 11 months (I really don't miss it that much), and if I did.. god, nearly 3 hours? I really don't give a shit about 3D. Yah, I'm old I guess now, but I really don't (not in my games or on my TV, I already fucking wear glasses, thanks). I didn't immediately wish that everything was suddenly in 3D after watching Captain EO either. |
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KallDrexx
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3D in avatar is different than 3D in most movies. It really does help the visuals and make it better.
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Mrbloodworth
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3D in avatar is different than 3D in most movies. It really does help the visuals and make it better.
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HaemishM
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Does it make the story not suck?  |
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Lakov_Sanite
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Does it make the story not suck? Kind of, yeah. |
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HaemishM
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Unpossible.
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Ratman_tf
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Jesus, 20 pages in and the thread is still dominated by comic book guys upset that their predictions of doom and failure for the biggest money making movie of all time came to nothing. I suppose it's because most of the rest of the world saw it months ago and have moved on.
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"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. |
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Kitsune
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3D in avatar is different than 3D in most movies. It really does help the visuals and make it better.
It gave one of my friends a better headache. And I don't have proper stereo vision, so I couldn't see most of the 3Dness except for vague hints of depth in a couple scenes. 3D is the future! |
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Mrbloodworth
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3D in avatar is different than 3D in most movies. It really does help the visuals and make it better.
It gave one of my friends a better headache. And I don't have proper stereo vision, so I couldn't see most of the 3Dness except for vague hints of depth in a couple scenes. 3D is the future! You guys are just broken. |
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Cyrrex
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Quite literally, in that case.
Avatar is a technical marvel, and that's all it was really meant to be. For what it is, it succeeds hugely, and the 3D implementation is a big reason for it.
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Amarr HM
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It gave one of my friends a better headache.
My girlfriend complained so much about the 3d specs not working, I caved halfway through and unwillingly swapped with her. The ones I ended up with gave me a migraine, I put this down to cheap faulty glasses. I reckon it will come to people investing in their own and they might become a commodity like headphones. |
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Draegan
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3D in avatar is different than 3D in most movies. It really does help the visuals and make it better.
It gave one of my friends a better headache. And I don't have proper stereo vision, so I couldn't see most of the 3Dness except for vague hints of depth in a couple scenes. 3D is the future! You guys are just broken. |
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