Comments on: Why I’m Not Seeing Avatar

By: e

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:45:37 +0000

@RedX – J doesn’t have cable anymore. Which I think happened after her Avatar post, but I’m not positive… I hear tell she survives with the internet alone. *gasp*

By: RedX

RedX — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:40:41 +0000

Avatar officially is on HBO…so verdict?

By: e

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:40:33 +0000

@ J – Don’t feel that bad about it. I refused to watch Titanic. I still haven’t seen it.

By: J

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:24:41 +0000

I don’t know if this influenced my decision or not, but one thing I keep hearing is that I must see it “In 3D! or IMAX!” Well, I don’t have any of those theaters within a reasonable distance, so I’m even less inclined to see it at a regular theater that’s only one step above my TV. Then there’s the economic component; I’ve been making an effort to only see movies in theaters that I’m really excited about. I don’t want to spend my money on something out of spite, or boredom, and really, that’s the way I should be. So while I don’t think I’d be seeing it anyway, the practical aspects make it a lot easier.

By: e

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:48:14 +0000

I finally went to see Avatar yesterday and while it was beautiful and there were interesting bits and pieces about it, the plot was soooooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo obvious, it was painful. And I kept thinking about Pocahontas. And Fern Gully. Yeah. It was good, but not what it could have been with a decent script.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:43:07 +0000

I just wanted to add that I went to see Avatar again this morning, a Sunday morning 4 weeks after the film’s debut. I wanted to see the 11:30 showing… it was sold out until 7 pm at night.

That’s not hype driving that, that’s an outstandingly good movie that people are paying to see, over and over again.

By: KT

KT — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:28:36 +0000

Lost Boys Three!~
Warners has given the go-ahead for another sequel, and have hired Evan Charnov (Fearless) to pen the script.

By: maxwell

maxwell — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:39:47 +0000

You’d be missing the experience of a lifetime if you didn’t see it in theaters. Seriously.

I thought it would be the stupidest tree-hugger movie I see in my life. I was totally mistaken.

It may seem like another movie that mindless lemmings flock to because a talk show host or a flashy advertisement(or as you have mentioned a respectable TV show) told them to, but I swear with every fiber of my being that it is not.

Sure, the story is familiar, and the script(sans cursing) is kinda laughable, and the plot develops like a run-of-the-mill Disney story, but the visuals… oh man…

You could’ve told me that the things I saw on that screen were not happening before my eyes. I wouldn’t have believed you. Sure, there was somewhere in my mind where I was thinking, “This is all done on a computer” but every other part of my brain was being totally immersed in the pure awesomeness that is Pandora. It was not your usual expensive explosions or your kinda-realistic Gollum. It was fantastic.

I felt, throughout the entire movie, that I was a part of it. I wasn’t sitting in a theater, looking at a projection screen. I was peering through a window to another world.

Seeing this movie was not about getting an original story, hearing the best scripting, or even learning an important life lesson. It was about the totally captivating and mind-blowing world that James Cameron has dreamed up to amaze the world.

Go see it. In 3d. Over 9000% worth it.

By: Swordgleam

Swordgleam — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:49:04 +0000

If it makes you feel better, the actor who plays Fisher on Bones is in Avatar. I cracked up when I first saw him on screen in Avatar – it made me see that Bones episode in a whole different light.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:20:18 +0000

Ever since I had my heart broken by The Phantom Menace (*sob*), I'm extremely wary of any movie that receives an exceptional amount of hype. I'm even more wary of it when it's a science fiction movie, since it means that the general public will judge all of SF (almost always unfairly) by this one example. So I was already on the fence about Avatar when I saw the Bones thing. "Gee," I thought to myself, "isn't it great how commercials are only limited to a few minutes between programming segments and... heeeey, wait a minute!" So I suffered through the (*ahem*) less than flattering depiction of SF fandom, my desire to see this film decreasing all the while (even though the "fangirl" in the episode was super cute, if crazy and slu--uh, "liberal in her sexual mores"). But the final nail in the coffin was when I starting hearing the reviews, even though those reviews were mostly positive. See, all the reviews, including the ones the commentors have posted here, say "Go see the movie. No, don't watch it, go see it." Everyone's gaga over the visuals, the 3D, the special effects, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam. But the plot, I'm told, is not only predictable but also utterly forgettable. (Even worse, I'm told it's nothing but Dances with Aliens, subtitled "What These People Need is a Honky.") And that's why I'm not seeing it. I see movies for the same reason I read books: because I like stories. A movie's special effects can look like a 5-year-old's finger painting waved in the background, yet still enthrall me with its story. (The same holds true for TV shows. I'm looking fondly at you, classic Doctor Who.) I'll happily watch a movie over and over that's nothing but twelve men talking for an hour and a half, as long as what they're saying is interesting. But try to wow me with your CGI wizardry, and I'll be bored after ten minutes. .-= Jason´s last blog ..On Hipster Irony, -isms, and Sea Monsters =-.