jKipler

I'm pretty sure all of us have watched Avatar since it came out. I personally liked it a lot. It ranks right up there with Armageddon, Gladiator, and Transformers. After talking with some people I was a little surprised to find that most of them thought the movie was extremely predictable. I have to agree, but I still thought it was great. What are your thoughts?

Solid Snake

Hi, I may sound like a dick but......

My thoughts are that maybe you should post in the Avatar thread on this site. In that thread you'll find my thoughts about the film.

Fist of Doom

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FinkPish

Yeah, giant 39 page thread with lots of discussion here: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...thread-39.html

Groucho

What's predictable is that you're only a few posts away from posting links to a "site I found".

Solid Snake

that is badass sir.

jKipler

Sorry guys, I didn't see it. Just disregard this thread.

gryffinmaster

The moderators are like hawks here, sir or madam, and the users are not gullible to bright, shiny links. Just keep that in mind before posting anything else, as it'd be a waste of a bunch of peoples' times.

jKipler

Thanks. I didn't post that Transformers one, it just got auto-linked if that's what you are referring to with a "shiny link". I'll just be sure to look a little more carefully before posting a thread.

OldBoy

this is awesome and i only now know what this is since i have been unknowingly unlocking these as i play through Halo 3.

Solid Snake

I know that sound from anywhere.

whoopdido

Interesting that Avatar, Gladiator, Armageddon and Transformers were all mentioned in the same sentence.

Numanoid

It certainly does.

toddly6666

well because they are all directed by the same director, Michael Scott, right?

lamphorn

They all belong in the same sentence.

Michael Corvin

I think I figured it out. They're all one word titles.

Trevor

Was there ever a movie less predictable than Avatar? I guess if you had never seen or heard the basic premise of Pocahontas or Dances With Wolves it may have been 'new'.

Maxflier

That was funny as shit

jfoobar

Maxflier

Oh God...
What's sad is people would pay money and see that shit on purpose.

Idioteque...

It's not an awful film. It's a story that's been done to death and is full of cliches but visually Cameron did a good job. The action scenes were fun and the score was good and I guess that's why the movie turns out to be fun. It's alright action flick. It's not a horrible film by any means but is it worthy of its praise? Of course not.

maingon

you could do that with many movie, I have seen it with Star wars and a bunch of others. They have done the same thing with Harry Potter, basically ripping off Star Wars

Nick Danger

Name four movies which made millions for investors, and didn't have to spend much for scripts?

Jason

Even in a well written movie, the script is probably one of the cheaper parts.

PopcornTreeCt

Nah.

It's not a good comparison at all. Harry and Hermoine aren't sisters. Voldemort wasn't Harry's father. Ron never got Harry out of a jam like Han Solo did with Luke. The differences go on.

The Last Samurai is pretty identical to Dances With Wolves but in my opinion, no story takes another story so much as Avatar takes from Pocahontas.