Foolz said:You cried because you realised you just wasted 9 or so hours of your life.
Shut up.
I just saw the festering pile of crap called Avatar the movie. 
Pochahontas in space? With blue smurrfs?
2 and a half hours I can never get back.
FUCK. OFF.
I hate anyone who likes this movie.
Foolz said:Dvader said:Does it involve a dog? Cause dog movies make me cry. And the end of the LOTR for whatever reason.
True story, Armaggedon made me tear up.
You cried because you realised you just wasted 9 or so hours of your life.
I cried after watching Avatar. 
gamingeek said:I just saw the festering pile of crap called Avatar the movie.
Pochahontas in space? With blue smurrfs?
2 and a half hours I can never get back.
FUCK. OFF.
I hate anyone who likes this movie.
I wouldn't call it a "festering pile of crap" ( ), but it certain wasn't as good as everyone has made it out to be. The 3D sucked (IMO), and, as you so elequently pointed out, the story has been done before. Avatar fails because its focus was on teh special effects, not on telling an original or compelling story. To me, Avatar comes off as "meh."
Ravenprose said:gamingeek said:I just saw the festering pile of crap called Avatar the movie.
Pochahontas in space? With blue smurrfs?
2 and a half hours I can never get back.
FUCK. OFF.
I hate anyone who likes this movie.
I wouldn't call it a "festering pile of crap" (
), but it certain wasn't as good as everyone has made it out to be. The 3D sucked (IMO), and, as you so elequently pointed out, the story has been done before. Avatar fails because its focus was on teh special effects, not on telling an original or compelling story. To me, Avatar comes off as "meh."
WTF did I just watch? Pochahontas in Space?
At least the Disney version had some nice music and ended after an hour and a half.
And WTF was up with the greased up homoerotic bad guy always trying to show off his biceps in his sleeveless waistcoats? And the Aliens type dialogue was laughably bad "come get some!"
I.... wasn't..... laughing
And it's obvious Cameron had watched Princess Mononoke and had tried to do a Hollywood version. There are things like tree spirits and floating mountain rubbish.
How is this the highest grossing movie ever? This film is like giving those game developers who do "Epic" games the money to make a movie. It ends up as an action packed visual feast without the slightest shred of creativity. But, at least a flying monster just grabbed a futuristic helicopter by the tail and threw it into another copter am right?
gamingeek said:I just saw the festering pile of crap called Avatar the movie.
Pochahontas in space? With blue smurrfs?
2 and a half hours I can never get back.
FUCK. OFF.
I hate anyone who likes this movie.
Yodariquo said:Late to the party, I saw Avatar last night. In terms of the movie itself, bizarrely enough I think if anything it works best as a romantic plot; everything else was a mess. Paper-thin depth of character, particularly in the political elements, and plausibility absurdities aside, the movie panders to the worst kind of naive idealism.
The alien race is very comparable in culture to Native Americans, in terms of a worship of nature and the whole "one with everything" concept. Ultimately, the everything in the movie plays up to them having some sort of perfect society, and by learning their ways there's some kind of great insight into life. It's nonsense.
The one part that irritated me most was when the character who knows the group the best says "We have nothing to offer them." Really? An entire race whose sum-total of technology is the ability to make hammocks is completely without need of anything the modern world can provide? No medicine, shelter, climatology, chemistry, mathematics, educational systems, plumbing, nothing?! They get away with this by never showing anyone needing medical attention (until near the end where their mystical crap fails), and never showing any inclimate weather.
Humanity has progressed technologically for a reason. Of course there are harmful environmental practices, but the entire movie demonizes technological and social progress. Just because something's "the way it's always been done" does not make it better, insightful or even useful. Somehow I don't like choosing sides between war-mongering incompetent management and xenophobic intolerant mystics.
Beyond the movie itself, the day gaming goes 3D is the day I quit gaming.
Yodariquo said:If you factor in the 3D, Avatar is the worst movie experience I've ever had.
I WARNED YE! DIDN'T I WARN YE?!
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileThis thread has gone insane. Avatar is a really good movie, its not highest grossing movie ever good but a great summer movie. I don't know what you guys were expecting.
Eh, Avatar is a shallow summer flick. People disappointed with it must have been expecting something else. You watch it like you watch streaming porn, then forget about it. Want a life-changing cinematic experience? Look elsewhere.
When you mentioned this on ggweekly I thought you meant the smamalamayamilanmyan film!
Foolz said:When you mentioned this on ggweekly I thought you meant the smamalamayamilanmyan film!
The funny thing about that movie is that it isn't even directed by Shamamlalana, he is involved in the project someway. The poor director has his movie being laughed at cause they decided to stick Shamalaallamamayian in the trailers.
Dvader said:The funny thing about that movie is that it isn't even directed by Shamamlalana, he is involved in the project someway. The poor director has his movie being laughed at cause they decided to stick Shamalaallamamayian in the trailers.
it's meant to be pretty bad in its own right, though. But I'm sure that would certainly add to the hate. Poor guy.
SteelAttack said:Eh, Avatar is a shallow summer flick. People disappointed with it must have been expecting something else. You watch it like you watch streaming porn, then forget about it. Want a life-changing cinematic experience? Look elsewhere.
I was expecting poop, to NOT be thrown at my face.
Dvader said:This thread has gone insane. Avatar is a really good movie, its not highest grossing movie ever good but a great summer movie. I don't know what you guys were expecting.
James Cameron, legendary sci fi director of Terminator 1 and 2 and frigging Oscar nominated Aliens?
Instead we get Space Pochahontas?
SteelAttack said:Eh, Avatar is a shallow summer flick. People disappointed with it must have been expecting something else. You watch it like you watch streaming porn, then forget about it. Want a life-changing cinematic experience? Look elsewhere.
seriously, what steel said. did you really expect high art from a gimmicky cheesy summer blockbuster?
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bugsonglass said:SteelAttack said:Eh, Avatar is a shallow summer flick. People disappointed with it must have been expecting something else. You watch it like you watch streaming porn, then forget about it. Want a life-changing cinematic experience? Look elsewhere.
seriously, what steel said. did you really expect high art from a gimmicky cheesy summer blockbuster?
You guys are going from one side of the scale to the complete opposite, just to make a point. The film plain sucked compared to other summer blockbusters like the new Star Trek movie for instance.
gamingeek said:You guys are going from one side of the scale to the complete opposite, just to make a point. The film plain sucked compared to other summer blockbusters like the new Star Trek movie for instance.
I'm pretty much sure I would stomach better a second view of Avatar than a hypothetical first view of Star Trek (which will never happen). Should I start hating you for liking it? But I digress.
I would be hard pressed to find a summer flick that doesn't have either gaping plot holes or inconsistencies, lousy acting or a laughable plot. You like some, you hate some. Very few of them (if any) have any redeeming qualities whatsoever that make them worth remembering. In Avatar's case, as in many other pseudo sci-fi flicks, the hook were the special effects and it being screened on 3D. That clearly wasn't enough for you, and that's too bad, but it certainly was more than enough for a huge number of people that enjoyed it.
I expect everything to suck. Avatar failed to even meet my expectations.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileSteelAttack said:I'm pretty much sure I would stomach better a second view of Avatar than a hypothetical first view of Star Trek (which will never happen). Should I start hating you for liking it? But I digress.
I would be hard pressed to find a summer flick that doesn't have either gaping plot holes or inconsistencies, lousy acting or a laughable plot. You like some, you hate some. Very few of them (if any) have any redeeming qualities whatsoever that make them worth remembering. In Avatar's case, as in many other pseudo sci-fi flicks, the hook were the special effects and it being screened on 3D. That clearly wasn't enough for you, and that's too bad, but it certainly was more than enough for a huge number of people that enjoyed it.
I disagree with that, many of my favorite movies are big summer movies. I find them to be more entertaining then most and that is one of the big reasons I go to the theater, to be entertained.
That said Avatar is a really good summer movie. The effects of course were incredible. The world was breathtaking to behold, especially in 3D. It is one of those landmark movies in special effects that many will talk about for years to come. And the Pocahotas storyline has been told in a million different movies, its a classic tale, whats so wrong about using it in a sci-fi setting. It has a love story, action, and a timeless story. It was very run of the mill for someone like Cameron but that being said it is so much better than many of the summer movies we do get.
Just this year I would pick Avatar over Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Robin Hood and I am sure its way better than the movies I didn't see like Last Airbender, Twilight 3, Prince of Persia. There are so many more movies to hate, so when I see a reaction like this I feel it has to be because of the amount of praise and attention it got.
That said Star Trek shits all over Avatar. That movie is fantastic.
You cried because you realised you just wasted 9 or so hours of your life.