MOVIES - AVATAR

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:40 am

Wifie made a run to WalMart at about 11:45 last night to buy the move AVATAR.

Setting aside all the political and mother earth religious ideas I have only one word to describe this movie:

INCREDIBLE!

For those who missed it at the big screen like we did, go buy it.

Joe

Renegade Master · Post by **Renegade Master** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:56 am

Joe

If you ever get the chance to see it at the cinema in 3D, go and see it. The film was awesome, but in 3D it's mind blowing.

Dan

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:52 am

Getting it tomorrow

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:26 am

a very fun and entertaining movie, Star Trek meets Little Big Man?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:04 am

Hi All,

The Wife and I went to see it (2-D) at the theater......very entertaining. I'll pick it up again when it comes to my video store.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:18 am

Caught it at an IMAX in 3D and it was awesome. Wife brought the movie home yesterday and we watched it last night. It's unreal what they can do with computer generation anymore.

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:35 am

it is definately a must see, if not a must own. putting the political mumbo aside, very entertaining

Mike D. · Post by **Mike D.** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:59 am

After seeing it in IMAX 3D viewing it on TV must be a letdown. I probably won't bother.

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:10 am

Renegade Master wrote:Joe

If you ever get the chance to see it at the cinema in 3D, go and see it. The film was awesome, but in 3D it's mind blowing.

Dan

Exactly! The 3D effects for this movie are out of this world. My wife went and picked it up last night saw it twice in the theaters cant wait to watch it again tonight when my kids get home from school.

salvo · Post by **salvo** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:17 am

Joe, I ran over to Target after work yesterday and picked it up, the wife and I watched it last night too. Great movie, I would love to see it on the big screen!

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:18 am

And the tall, blue chick is HOT.......

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:19 am

Mike, actually watching it in 3D on an IMAX is almost too stimulating. To much going on to really be able to take it all in. It's almost stimulus overload. It would be more than worth it to watch it on TV.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:30 am

When my wife got there the WalMart sales guy had just brought out more copies. Their displays had been stripped. Besides my wife waiting there was a Sheriff deputy waiting.
In conversation he told her that in a month or so they'll going to bring it back to the big screen with something like 15 more minutes of movie that was cut the first time. Then in October they're going to bring it out the second version on DVD. So we may end up with two copies. No big deal. We got the dual disk package with both DVD and Blu-Ray discs. So I can watch it on my computer too.

The hot tall blue chick was voiced by Zoe Saldana, the gal that plays Uhura on the new Star Trek.

Joe

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:54 am

We saw it in the theater, but I'm sure going to pick up up on BluRay first chance I get.

Mike D. · Post by **Mike D.** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:58 pm

kimwcook wrote:Mike, actually watching it in 3D on an IMAX is almost too stimulating. To much going on to really be able to take it all in. It's almost stimulus overload. It would be more than worth it to watch it on TV.

You're correct, Kim, it was fun watching everyone in the theater slap at the "bugs" and floating objects, my wife included. Maybe I will get a copy. Who knows, it might be good on wide screen HDTV.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:07 pm

Can you get 3-D at home by getting the glasses?

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:52 pm

You can Blaine, my daughter has a couple Disney movies that are 3D. The picture looks all fuzzy without the glasses. I hope Avatar is available in 3D. Here lately though, I've been seeing commercials for a new 3D tv that's coming out. Not sure what that's all about.

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:53 pm

BlaineG wrote:Can you get 3-D at home by getting the glasses?

Nope that takes a new $3K tv and a new 3D blue ray player + glasses

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:37 am

BlaineG wrote: And the tall, blue chick is HOT.......

I said the same thing, then my wife hit me upside the head from across the room...and it is a large room

Actually it was a pretty good movie, it reminded me of "Dancing with Wolves" for some reason.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:40 am

J Miller wrote:Wifie made a run to WalMart at about 11:45 last night to buy the move AVATAR.

Setting aside all the political and mother earth religious ideas I have only one word to describe this movie:

INCREDIBLE!

For those who missed it at the big screen like we did, go buy it.

Joe

Okay Joe, you convinced me. I was not going to buy it, despite the fact that I love science fiction. I just do like being preached to, and Cameron has made such idiotic staements lately that I was really put off. I know the kids want to see it.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:52 am

Ysabel Kid wrote:
J Miller wrote:Wifie made a run to WalMart at about 11:45 last night to buy the move AVATAR.

Setting aside all the political and mother earth religious ideas I have only one word to describe this movie:

INCREDIBLE!

For those who missed it at the big screen like we did, go buy it.

Joe
Okay Joe, you convinced me. I was not going to buy it, despite the fact that I love science fiction. I just do like being preached to, and Cameron has made such idiotic staements lately that I was really put off. I know the kids want to see it.

Ysabel,

I totally agree with you about the preaching part. Either I'm a dunce or that preaching part was hype put on by ultra emotional types. I didn't see it. It reminded me of any number of movies where the peaceful indigenous people were violated by the rich and greedy. It's an old story, so if it's preachy we've seen it all before. But then again I don't watch a movie looking for hidden messages or agendas. I watch for entertainment.

I enjoyed it for what it was, a really well done ( excellent ) animated science fiction movie. I just may watch it again today since I'm home sick.

.......................................
Oh by the way for everybody who has not seen it there is two things that really caught my attention.
First the animation. EVERYTHING in this movie is animated, even the humans. I have never seen such realistically animated humans. Right down to the pores in the skin, the wrinkles on the knuckles, and the expressions. You will get to a point you'll swear it's a combination of live action and animation. It's not. Michelle Rodriguez is one of the actors and they animated her so well you will think it's actually her. They caught her nuances and personality perfectly. Did the same thing for Sigourney Weaver. Very impressive, to me anyway.

Second the size differences between the humans and blue people. They filmed this in such a way that when you are in the human settlement that looks normal. When you are in the blue peoples settlements that looks normal.
But when they interact the difference in size is shocking.

Yeah, I should have pushed harder to see this on the big screen.

Joe

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:34 pm

Old Time Hunter wrote: Actually it was a pretty good movie, it reminded me of "Dancing with Wolves" for some reason.

It has a lot of the same feel to it.

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:52 am

Star Trek meets Little Big Man?

LOL.

That's actually pretty much it. Or maybe "Star Wars meets Dances With Wolves".

At any rate, it looks real good in HD and is just flat out a great sci-fi movie.

Cheers,
Oly

roundup · Post by **roundup** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:23 am

BlaineG wrote: And the tall, blue chick is HOT.......

And she has a tail!

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:10 am

My wife came home from the store yesterday and said,"I got you something at the store". I guessed "Avatar on BluRay?". And it was!

Watched it last night and enjoyed it, but not like the 3d experience at the theater.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:38 pm

Lessons learned (or those being pushed onto susceptable audiences). Humans are evil, military personel are evil, big business is evil, defending yourself from animails that attack you is evil and technology is evil. This is the biggest bunch of tree hugging stuff to come out of hollywood in year.

KSRtrd · Post by **KSRtrd** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:04 pm

I seem to recall in recent history a nation where the government emptied the cities and the people where returned to the countryside to lived in a perfect society. A society based on economic and social equality without the horrible pollution of urban areas. What was the nation? Oh, I remember Cambodia, the socialist ideal. Give me a break John Cameroon you and you athiestic ilk are just power hungry creatures 10 times worse than any boogie man in your lame productions. Besides 3 hours for a flick not only does it pain my mind but, my posterior just cannot bare sittin through it. Sorry for the rant.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:23 pm

My apologies for my previous comments on this post. Every body has the right to their opinions even if they don't agree.

Joe

deerwhacker444 · Post by **deerwhacker444** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:49 pm

Watched it last night on DVD, it was quite good. I caught 3 comments coming from the anti-war bunch, those being "fight terror with terror", "shock and awe", and I thought I heard them mention daisy-cutter or bunker buster when talking about the big bomb.

All that political stuff aside, it was a good movie. I'm kinda glad I didn't see it in 3-D. I can't stand heights and the scenes flying around on the lizards and climbing the vines in the floating mountains was almost more than I could take in 2D. I'm afraid 3-D might have made me reach for the Dramamine.

I really enjoyed seeing Stephen Lang play the bad colonel. I've been a fan of his way back when he was in Crime Story in the 80's.

I also thought it was cool that that gigantic robot suit that they wear to get around in had a scaled to fit bowie knife attachment, that was neat looking.

The CGI was great and really made that tree look like it was a couple thousand feet tall. I've never seen human animation done this well. Nothing looked phony or unreal. Most all other movies you can tell when they've used animation especially when humans do super-human things. Not so in this movie. I really believe it's a new page in movie-making. Kinda like Star Wars was back in the 70's

Overall, a good movie. If you haven't seen it yet, it's worth a watch.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:12 pm

It's just a movie....I can't get emotional about fiction (unless it's by that dang traitor Jane Fonda or one of her Ilk.........I guess Levergunners just disagree on Ilks a lot

)

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:11 pm

BlaineG wrote:It's just a movie....I can't get emotional about fiction (unless it's by that dang traitor Jane Fonda or one of her Ilk.........I guess Levergunners just disagree on Ilks a lot )

Blaine, there is a lot we all don't agree on, but Jane Fonda is one I think we or most all of us do agree on. She is one traitorous person I will be glad to hear passing.

Joe

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:12 pm

J Miller wrote:
BlaineG wrote:It's just a movie....I can't get emotional about fiction (unless it's by that dang traitor Jane Fonda or one of her Ilk.........I guess Levergunners just disagree on Ilks a lot )
Blaine, there is a lot we all don't agree on, but Jane Fonda is one I think we or most all of us do agree on. She is one traitorous person I will be glad to hear passing.

Joe

She was just whining the other day how she was falsely accused of a lot of what she has been attributed to doing.

Like hell...

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:09 pm

Ysabel Kid wrote:
J Miller wrote:
BlaineG wrote:It's just a movie....I can't get emotional about fiction (unless it's by that dang traitor Jane Fonda or one of her Ilk.........I guess Levergunners just disagree on Ilks a lot )
Blaine, there is a lot we all don't agree on, but Jane Fonda is one I think we or most all of us do agree on. She is one traitorous person I will be glad to hear passing.

Joe
She was just whining the other day how she was falsely accused of a lot of what she has been attributed to doing.

Like hell...

No kidding, way too much photo evidence for her to get away with that. And if we keep this up this thread will end up in the political dead zone.

Joe

MrMurphy · Post by **MrMurphy** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:04 am

I call Avatar "Dances With Aliens".

Visually spectacular. The message was about what I expected.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:49 pm

MrMurphy wrote:I call Avatar "Dances With Aliens".

Visually spectacular. The message was about what I expected.

Apt discription. Thanks, can I use it?

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:15 am

jeepnik wrote:
MrMurphy wrote:I call Avatar "Dances With Aliens".

Visually spectacular. The message was about what I expected.

Apt discription. Thanks, can I use it?

I thought you hated it?

Hankster · Post by **Hankster** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:04 am

If you missed it in 3d you're in luck, they are re-running it later this summer, with additional footage. The 3d stuff WAS unreal.... like someone said, people swatting at the bugs, pushing leaves/brush aside/"out of your face!" it was funny but cool, you'd catch yourself doing it, and then hope no one saw! LOL!! Burning ashes from the fire you'd "duck".... cool experience. Yeah, the "preaching" was there, but nothing outrageous, dances with wolves, the American Indian story... call it what you will, but it was "truthful"... it DID happen here, numerous times! So what the heck...... just enjoy the film!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:11 pm

I had not read this thread before today as I had not watched the movie.

Bought it yesterday, watched it today: Great entertainment. If you want to be offended by it, so be it. Hmmm, seems to parallel the Amercian experience with Native Americans, no? Nice to see a different outcome, glad it happened there, not here, tho'.

Yes, the tall blue chick was hot... and with a tail!

deerwhacker444 · Post by **deerwhacker444** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:14 pm

I think I've changed my mind, I'll go see it in 3-D if it comes back out. How often does a movie come around that is made specifically for 3-D. I wish now I'd seen it when it was in theaters the first time.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:38 pm

Griff wrote:I had not read this thread before today as I had not watched the movie.

Bought it yesterday, watched it today: Great entertainment. If you want to be offended by it, so be it. Hmmm, seems to parallel the Amercian experience with Native Americans, no? Nice to see a different outcome, glad it happened there, not here, tho'.

Yes, the tall blue chick was hot... and with a tail!

Great tail, er..um, TALE.

Molasses · Post by **Molasses** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:37 am

jeepnik wrote:
MrMurphy wrote:I call Avatar "Dances With Aliens".

Visually spectacular. The message was about what I expected.

Apt discription. Thanks, can I use it?

Seen it referred to on one or two blogs I follow as "Dances With Smurfs"

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:37 pm

Molasses wrote:
jeepnik wrote:
MrMurphy wrote:I call Avatar "Dances With Aliens".

Visually spectacular. The message was about what I expected.

Apt discription. Thanks, can I use it?

Seen it referred to on one or two blogs I follow as "Dances With Smurfs"

I like that one even better.

mklwhite · Post by **mklwhite** » Sun May 09, 2010 9:12 pm

Just saw it at home. Awesome movie. A real game changer in the graphics department. Some folks have commented on the movie message and I think it may have been missed by some or perhaps misinterpreted. I believe that the primary message could be distilled down to "greed is evil". Most religions you can think of says as much and that is what this move said as well. The Na'vi hunted, so it wasn't anti-hunting. They killed in defense, so it wasn't that either. So blind greed is destructive and arrogance is a critical weakness. I think most can agree on that.
Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Which side you would have found yourself on if you were in the movie would probably say a lot.

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Sun May 09, 2010 10:26 pm

Regarding the tail, Sigourney Weaver's line was classic, "Don't play with that or you'll go blind."

Oly

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Sun May 09, 2010 10:32 pm

olyinaz wrote:Regarding the tail, Sigourney Weaver's line was classic, "Don't play with that or you'll go blind."

Oly

Oly,
My wife and I laughed a lot at that line. It was funny.

Joe

firefuzz · Post by **firefuzz** » Mon May 10, 2010 6:48 am

I finally saw it last night and have to say I enjoyed the movie, which is rare as I don't watch Sigourney Weaver much anymore. The politics were there as stated, but I didn't find them offensive as I don't believe that everything should be sacrificed in the name of money. I will go watch it at the theater if it comes back out in 3D.

Rob