Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
10-06-10, 09:19 AM
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Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
OFN, yes...
Maybe I sound lame for saying this, but I had strongly hoped that Avatar had been the victim of interference the same way Kingdom of Heaven had. Like many people, i found Avatar visually pleasing but unnecessarily rote. Why they couldn't explain that these people use built-in USB cables to plug into a biological database is beyond me (instead of using the mystical route and looking insane to ppl who likely would have understood the usb route -_-)...except then the story wouldn't happen the way it did.
I'm getting off topic. Anyway, I was really hoping that the blandness was attributable to stuff being cut out, but from what I just read the only additions will be 'more creatures' and 'more action'. So, I guess it's just more of the same and characters in this 3d film will remain flat..........
I suppose I was throwing this out to see if anyone else was disappointed or had the same hopes that i did.
Maybe I sound lame for saying this, but I had strongly hoped that Avatar had been the victim of interference the same way Kingdom of Heaven had. Like many people, i found Avatar visually pleasing but unnecessarily rote. Why they couldn't explain that these people use built-in USB cables to plug into a biological database is beyond me (instead of using the mystical route and looking insane to ppl who likely would have understood the usb route -_-)...except then the story wouldn't happen the way it did.
I'm getting off topic. Anyway, I was really hoping that the blandness was attributable to stuff being cut out, but from what I just read the only additions will be 'more creatures' and 'more action'. So, I guess it's just more of the same and characters in this 3d film will remain flat..........
I suppose I was throwing this out to see if anyone else was disappointed or had the same hopes that i did.
10-06-10, 12:35 PM
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Re: Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
10-07-10, 12:41 PM
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Re: Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
anyway, I guess we can let this thread die.............
10-07-10, 03:51 PM
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10-07-10, 04:44 PM
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Re: Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
Nope, I just like to stay aware of what's going on the entertainment world, what people are buying/selling, etc.
I just think that Avatar was (is) the biggest joke to be played on the most people at one time that I may have ever seen. And I find it even more amusing now that it's being perpetuated, ad infintum, it seems. Actually, it alternates between amusement and disgust.
That people are buying it yet again already would qualify for the bolded words in your comment...oh, and the ignore button could be something you'd want to try out.
I just think that Avatar was (is) the biggest joke to be played on the most people at one time that I may have ever seen. And I find it even more amusing now that it's being perpetuated, ad infintum, it seems. Actually, it alternates between amusement and disgust.
That people are buying it yet again already would qualify for the bolded words in your comment...oh, and the ignore button could be something you'd want to try out.
I'm not really here to thread crap, but boy did I hate this movie.
10-07-10, 05:03 PM
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10-07-10, 05:06 PM
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Re: Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
Actually it would be award winning director, and he would have banged multiple blue girls, each of which paid him cash for the amazing experience that is lemmy. And then he bit off someones nose for looking at him wrong.
10-07-10, 05:11 PM
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Re: Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
Trailer for next DVD and BD release (Found at comingsoon.net in case the embed isn't working);
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10-07-10, 05:43 PM
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Re: Avatar Extended ... 8 minutes?
I agree pretty much with the OP, except for the USB thing. I thought it was explained just fine.
As someone who's been a James Cameron fan since seeing the first Terminator as a kid, I'm greatly disappointed in where his career seems to be headed. I think he's become a George Lucas-esque guy, and his interests have veered from the storytelling to the tech. Now he's busy hawking cameras and using his high-profile name to trash-talk movies that don't use his proprietary 3D system. Really annoying. Also it looks like he's gonna milk this Avatar thing to the nth degree. Less than a year from the original release we get the 8-minute extended release?? WTF is that? And he's making the sequel? Ugh. I'd rather he made a sequel to True Lies or something cool rather than trying to mythologize and franchise what is arguably his worst film.
As someone who's been a James Cameron fan since seeing the first Terminator as a kid, I'm greatly disappointed in where his career seems to be headed. I think he's become a George Lucas-esque guy, and his interests have veered from the storytelling to the tech. Now he's busy hawking cameras and using his high-profile name to trash-talk movies that don't use his proprietary 3D system. Really annoying. Also it looks like he's gonna milk this Avatar thing to the nth degree. Less than a year from the original release we get the 8-minute extended release?? WTF is that? And he's making the sequel? Ugh. I'd rather he made a sequel to True Lies or something cool rather than trying to mythologize and franchise what is arguably his worst film.
10-08-10, 02:44 PM
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I agree pretty much with the OP, except for the USB thing. I thought it was explained just fine.
As someone who's been a James Cameron fan since seeing the first Terminator as a kid, I'm greatly disappointed in where his career seems to be headed. I think he's become a George Lucas-esque guy, and his interests have veered from the storytelling to the tech. Now he's busy hawking cameras and using his high-profile name to trash-talk movies that don't use his proprietary 3D system. Really annoying. Also it looks like he's gonna milk this Avatar thing to the nth degree. Less than a year from the original release we get the 8-minute extended release?? WTF is that? And he's making the sequel? Ugh. I'd rather he made a sequel to True Lies or something cool rather than trying to mythologize and franchise what is arguably his worst film.
As someone who's been a James Cameron fan since seeing the first Terminator as a kid, I'm greatly disappointed in where his career seems to be headed. I think he's become a George Lucas-esque guy, and his interests have veered from the storytelling to the tech. Now he's busy hawking cameras and using his high-profile name to trash-talk movies that don't use his proprietary 3D system. Really annoying. Also it looks like he's gonna milk this Avatar thing to the nth degree. Less than a year from the original release we get the 8-minute extended release?? WTF is that? And he's making the sequel? Ugh. I'd rather he made a sequel to True Lies or something cool rather than trying to mythologize and franchise what is arguably his worst film.
Oh. Right. because it advances the plot (easily, rather than believably). I once read someone say that horror films rely on stupid people doing unfathomable things to advance the story. it's mostly true, even in more or less entertaining films like 28 weeks later. What genius thought taking everyone out of their perfectly securable apartments and cramming them into one room was the best way to prevent an outbreak of a highly infectious disease? The writer, coz he needed an outbreak.
An extension of that is someone in a tv show or movie being That Douche. You know, That Douche who is clearly the most wrong person doing the most wrong thing and is there just to provide reason for the Protagonist to do something, but is utterly unbelievable. Oh, the Protag doesn't want to use violence, but he only will if he has no choice. well.. crap, in normal situations that wouldn't happen...what do we do? We write in That Douche..
