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Whos seen this movie. Saw it today in 3-D (couldnt get tickets for 3D/IMAX). Oh wow, what an amazing film - and what a BEAUTIFUL film. Once again, I have an idea for an attraction. I don't really see Avatar fitting into Disney but maybe Universal wants to take a crack at it (especially if Disney takes away Spiderman with the new acquisition of Marvel!). How about a rehaul of ET and have guests riding on soemthing like the dragon-thingys (this will make sense if youve seen the movie) over Pandora? ; I think I should be an Imagineer! Its not so hard! ; "Okay, heres an idea...go build it!" ;D
 
The 3D is pretty cool. Its not like Mickey's Philharmagic "giant mermaid hands" in your face 3D but its kind of like being in the room with the characters. And no crappy paper 3D glasses Yay! ; BTW, I tried those with Toy Story Mania for Wii and they didnt work. Then again...neither did the glasses that came with game.
 
I have not seen it yet, but have received lots of rave reviews from friends. Will get around to it sooner or later.
 
Saw it in 3D and was great. ; Plan on seeing it again tomorrow on a regular screen. ; Talked with someone yesterday who saw a special on the making of Avatar and apparently there are no green screen effects in the moving. ; When the actors were doing the CG characters, they could actually see what was going on. ; Must have projected the CG scenery onto a screen. ; Great movie and hard to believe it was all computer generated. ; One think we noticed about the 3D movies we have seen is that the glasses make the screen darker and there is some loss of detail. ; Has anyone noticed this as well?
 
I saw it in 2D the weekend it premiered, and a lot of people told me I was missing out, so I went back last weekend and saw it in 3D.

It was a terrific movie, but not the end-all be-all of movies that people think. The technology used was wonderful, the visuals stunning, the music, direction, acting, and story were all good. I'll definitely buy it on DVD when it's released; I kinda hope I have a BlueRay player by that time, just for this movie.

Universal already has an elaborate, high-tech, 3D attraction based on a Jim Cameron film - Terminator 2 3D: Battle Across Time. T23D really pushed the envelope of 3D film-making tech at the time, and is still a great attraction today. The newer, better 3D tech used in Avatar would work even better in an attraction, and by combining that with the already-proven ride technology of IOA's Spider-Man ride, I think someone with Cameron's imagination could create a new 3D motion simulator ride that would blow away any other theme park attraction in Orlando. Couple that with perhaps a Pandora-themed area of the park, and Uni would draw some crowds away from Disney, without a doubt.
 
Will, I think Universal is going to take a stab at taking some of the crowds away from Disney when Harry Potter land opens next year(?). Should be interesting!
 
"mainstreet1997" said:
Will, I think Universal is going to take a stab at taking some of the crowds away from Disney when Harry Potter land opens next year(?). Should be interesting!
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First phase is supposed to be open within a few months. ; I know it's going to take another year or two to finish it, kind of like how DAK opened unfinished (love the cranes over Asia!).
 
"Grumpwurst" said:
I probably won't get to see a movie in the theaters in this decade
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hahah IKWYM. ; Another reason why the Drafthouse makes Tuesday "Baby Day".
 
Ray, check with your local theaters, they usually have a "baby and me" day during the week in the morning that you can take Kai to. ; There are other parents with little kids there and they are all kid appropriate movies. ; It's actually a lot of fun.
 
Haven't seen it. ; I was ambivalent at first, then the week it was coming out, I was thinking I did want to see it...then the hype began and I worried it might be disappointing...then the reviews said it was solid, if the story a bit average, so my interest was piqued again...then I heard how it might be a bit too preachy on the anti-US, anti-capitalism, anti-war, anti-whatever slant...and whether I agree with those positions or not, I tend to prefer leaving my politics out of my movies, so I was once again a bit ambivalent. ; Now the thing has broken a billion and may take the all-time gross record from Cameron's OTHER film...so now I'm thinking I need to see it again!
 
I think the proper way to approach this movie is in how I saw it described on a blog. ; It's an impressive tech demo. ; A quote from the review that I found useful:

"There isn't a plot. Well, actually, there is…but it's so predictable that they might as well have left it out. It's a wish-fulfillment fantasy on rails. Don't worry about it, as long as you don't expect to be challenged or surprised, it's fine."

There are good guys and bad guys, and the good guys are really, really good, and the bad guys are really, really bad. Like straight from the associate of arts degree program at the local Cartoon Villain College. When there's nothing else to do, they blow things up that gain them nothing but universal loathing. They also have standard cartoon villain military tactics, which usually involves sending in swarms of moronic foot soldiers to accompany their high-tech airborne missile platforms and act as targets for the defenders."

And so on.


You don't go see this movie for the story, you go for the special effects and the 3d experience. ; So long as you're okay with that being what the movie is about then by all means go see it.

I haven't seen it yet, actually.. but I will. ; I'm excited about the increasing focus on 3d movies. ; But I want to see the technology applied to movies that would stand alone without the gimmickry.

Honestly the basic plot of this movie lost me after I first heard about it. ; The story at the root of all this is that there's some sort of special mineral resource on this planet that's worth all the trouble. ; They spend FIVE YEARS in transit getting spaceships to this planet, putting all the people into some sort of hibernation sleep to get there. ; Hmm.. space marines being put into hibernation to travel a long distance.. where oh where have I seen this before on a previous James Cameron movie...

But what is this mineral? ; How can they possibly explain this mysteriously rare mineral that only shows up on a forest covered planet filled with natural splendor? ; I asked my sister who saw this (and liked it a lot). ; Her response: ; they don't even try. ; There's no attempt to explain why they don't just mine it from a handy dandy asteroid. ; It's just this element X that can only be found on this one planet.

Dune made the explanation of the origin of spice a central element of the storyline. ; In Avatar it's just the excuse to bring a megacorporation to a forest planet and to get them to blow stuff up constantly.
 
Someone posted this today on an Avatar thread on Tagrel.com:

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Haha. ; Yeah, I've seen that comparison made many times already.

About coming to DVD.. you just wait.

The forces of hollywood are at work bringing the 3d experience to home high def televisions. ; It may be that some restrictions have to be made, it might not work with TVs that don't have a high enough refresh rate (for PCs Nvidia has a 3d solution involving shutter glasses and it requires 120hz monitors, mine only goes up to 60, which is a bummer because the 3d effect can look quite good, and it can work in games), but.. it's coming, and probably in not too long a time frame.

I believe there's talk of trying to use this to make Bluray players the big must have accessory. ; Whether this means those that already have purchased a Bluray player will have to buy another 3d capable one is unclear at the moment, it depends on how they implement this. ; But I'm kind of excited about this prospect.
 
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