Avatar is in theaters, tomorrow, so who is excited and going to see it?

I'm probably going to see it, this film seems like one of those RARE huge goliath films that get huge hype but are still incredibly good, I don't think it'll be as big as Titanic as some are saying, but I think it'll be talked about for a while.

Don't know. :-\\

Have to admit, after seeing so many trailers and previews, not feeling the vibe.

The storyline isn't really that interesting to me, its been done before...and the "look" of the blue green characters seem off-putting to me. It just dosen't look that attractive overall. I've seen better in a video game and still wouldn't pay for that either...

The movie looks like its going to be betting heavily on how it looks and CGI...not enough plot or character development that I can tell for me to pay up $10 for a movie, and not clear on how its going to reap any profits starting with a $400 million production cost even if I'm wrong.

Have to say the jurys still out.
Too much hype and not enough substance right now.
Going to wait till others see it and get some feedback before seeing it.

My son saw it tonight (yes..it's Wednesday night in Australia)..and he reckons it is the best movie he ever saw!  But he's only 15 .... so he hasn't seen THAT many great movies!!!  Apparently, it is best viewed in 3D...

I'm excited about seeing it. Unfortunately, it doesn't come out until the 23rd in Japan. From the trailers I saw, it shows that we've come a long way with CG. For some reason, the feel of the movie reminds me of Jurassic Park, even though the story is about an alien planet and not dinosaurs on an island. I think it is just the setting of Pandora that is similar and the sound effects. I think the movie would been ideal to be released in the summer time instead of the holidays, but it should still be good nonetheless.

Hollywood is jaded.  :-\\

All the tv shows, movies, and music are soooo bad right now. Hollywood is officially dead.

i had no interest in seeing avatar until i learned it really makes conservatives angry. they think it's "anti-american." now i'm psyched to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtzHSML1jT0&videos=pxMjMtVV6ts

Hollywood is jaded.  :-\\

All the tv shows, movies, and music are soooo bad right now. Hollywood is officially dead.


I agree!

I agree!


I mean, did they just wake up one day and stopped caring?

I enjoyed Johnny Mnemonic, which was also essentially a tech demo for Alias/Wavefront.  So I'm going to see Avatar, if for no other reason than I'm looking forward to seeing how far we've come since then.

But since you asked...


I mean, did they just wake up one day and stopped caring?


OK, hear me out.  Got a pitch for something new for you.  Crime drama, action movie.  Suppose you had this guy who wanted to rub out a witness, OK?  And - get this - he wants to make it look like an accident, so he puts a bunch of snakes into the cargo hold of the plane taking the witness back to trial.  With, like, timers on them, so that the snakes get released, and go and bite everyone, and nobody knows what happened.  Except that Samuel L. Jackson's on the plane too, and he finally reaches the limits of his tolerance and saves the day.  We'll market it using viral methods, like those Blair Witch guys did.

I'm still stuck for a title, though.

Interesting news about the film, it appears not everyone is excited about the film.

There are plans to boycott Avatar, because they are no transgendered (or apparently gay or lesbian) characters, in the film.

Seriously.

http://www.dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/2009/12/16/lgbt-site-marks-friday-as-the-international-day-of-protest-against-avatar/

By the way, there are probably no transgendered characters, in Did You Hear The Morgans?, The Princess and the Frog, and The New Moon.

Should we boycott those films too?  

By the way, here is actual website.

http://stopavatarmovie.blogspot.com/

I enjoyed Johnny Mnemonic, which was also essentially a tech demo for Alias/Wavefront.  So I'm going to see Avatar, if for no other reason than I'm looking forward to seeing how far we've come since then.

But since you asked...

OK, hear me out.  Got a pitch for something new for you.  Crime drama, action movie.  Suppose you had this guy who wanted to rub out a witness, OK?  And - get this - he wants to make it look like an accident, so he puts a bunch of snakes into the cargo hold of the plane taking the witness back to trial.  With, like, timers on them, so that the snakes get released, and go and bite everyone, and nobody knows what happened.  Except that Samuel L. Jackson's on the plane too, and he finally reaches the limits of his tolerance and saves the day.  We'll market it using viral methods, like those Blair Witch guys did.

I'm still stuck for a title, though.

Too bad Hollywood had a brain fart for the past 4 years or so.

I enjoyed Johnny Mnemonic, which was also essentially a tech demo for Alias/Wavefront.  So I'm going to see Avatar, if for no other reason than I'm looking forward to seeing how far we've come since then.

But since you asked...

OK, hear me out.  Got a pitch for something new for you.  Crime drama, action movie.  Suppose you had this guy who wanted to rub out a witness, OK?  And - get this - he wants to make it look like an accident, so he puts a bunch of snakes into the cargo hold of the plane taking the witness back to trial.  With, like, timers on them, so that the snakes get released, and go and bite everyone, and nobody knows what happened.  Except that Samuel L. Jackson's on the plane too, and he finally reaches the limits of his tolerance and saves the day.  We'll market it using viral methods, like those Blair Witch guys did.

I'm still stuck for a title, though.


I like! 1 karamel.
Despite my negative ramble I think there's a good reason why Hollywood has been this way the past decade. I think Hollywood is weird now is because it is in a transition mode of trying to decide what to do next. Same thing with the music industry.
I like to think of the 2000's and sadly maybe even the 2010's as the decades Hollywood took a breather! Lol.

I mean, Hollywood has been around, what, a century? It was gonna have a drought sooner or later. I think the 00's/10's is that drought. Nothing is sharp all the time is it?

Despite my negative ramble I think there's a good reason why Hollywood has been this way the past decade. I think Hollywood is weird now is because it is in a transition mode of trying to decide what to do next. Same thing with the music industry.


Snakes on a Plane was it's the perfect example of what's right - and what's wrong - with remix generation.  Hollywood asked the Internet what it wanted in a film, and SoAP was the result.  I loved being part of the audience at midnight on opening night - but the rest of the world didn't get the joke, and pop culture moves too fast for something like Rocky Horror Picture Show to develop a cult following.

As for Avatar, I don't think it'll suffer the same fate.  What a lot of people aren't getting about Avatar is the movie compared to the price tag.  When you explain that the price tag wasn't for one movie, but for the technology to change the ways in which movies are made, and that Avatar is the technology demonstrator, the price tag makes more sense.  It's a risky gamble, but if you've got a Titanic amount of cash, you've got the time to take a few years and have a shot at becoming the next generation's Industrial Light & Magic.

Snakes on a Plane was it's the perfect example of what's right - and what's wrong - with remix generation.  Hollywood asked the Internet what it wanted in a film, and SoAP was the result.  I loved being part of the audience at midnight on opening night - but the rest of the world didn't get the joke, and pop culture moves too fast for something like Rocky Horror Picture Show to develop a cult following.


  So what was the joke..?

Hollywood is jaded.  :-\\

All the tv shows, movies, and music are soooo bad right now. Hollywood is officially dead.


Maybe I am in a minority, but the super-duper "special effects movies" strike me as an exercise in mechanized masturbation.  In my mind they do not have any "soul".

Don't get me wrong, it certainly takes alot of certain talent to do these flicks.  But in my mind, once you've done one of these computerized exercises, what's the point?  Give me real actors and real photography any time, and leave the computers and hard drives at home.

(Note:  The guy who did the special effects for "Avatar" is a high school classmate of mine and he's accumulated 3 Oscars for special effects so far, and will prolly get a 4th for this flick).  Talk about a nerd.  When he was a kid, his parents installed a friggin' observatory telescope in his bedroom, and they were always pimping his story to the local newspapers.

Saw this week, in 3-D, and it was aewsome!!!!!

Saw this week, in 3-D, and it was aewsome!!!!!
Ditto, on a big screen too!

...and is brillliant!