Avatar by Cameron

[TIMtationX]

And apparently hes willing to release it with the extra 20 minutes of extra footage that was meant to be in the original theatrical release, but due to time constraints, they couldn't.

Im definitaley up for a second viewing of this film in theaters with the 20 minutes of extra footage.

20 minutes? More like 6 minutes....
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/20/...ns-of-pandora/

[Mech_1000]

More like 6 minutes[/url]

Only 6... not worth $14 to see again. But sadly most my family was hypnotized by this movie and would probably watch it again.

[Xsubs]

Anyone having Playback problems with their Avatar Blu ray??

[Michael Do]

nope. make sure to update your player's firmware

[r-type]

Zero problems here. While Mike is right (in most cases re:firmware), this one may be an authoring (DRM) issue causing headaches on some players.

[Xsubs]

I've got an LG GGC-H20L BLu ray Drive, but there are no updates of the firmware for it. I have emailed the LG technical support but they have since not replied. Does this mean I'll have to buy a completely new blu-ray drive just for viewing Avatar and future blu ray titles??

[Optimash Prime]

I love how I buy a 25 dollar Blu ray movie and get no bonus features good old Cameron Thanks Buddy! At least Bay hooks it up with extra footage and bonus material.

[Michael Do]

exactly man. just max out the 50GB disc and throw in another with special features!

[HarryCanyon]

Well last year i did got a more upgraded Blu-Ray player for 128 bucks and it works well on the BD version.

If your familar or at least read Dune by Frank Herbert (greatest Sci-fi novels), you'll notice how similar the movie Avatar is to Dune.

[Drake]

Am I the only one who doesn't like this movie? He ripped off every movie ever made, including my beloved Flash Gordon. I didn't get the meaning of the South Park episode about the movie until I watched it. "You can't just take someone else's idea and put your name on it!" ~Stan Marsh

And what's up with the racism? That's the most stereotypical portrayal of "tribal" peoples I've ever seen. While watching I was expecting one of the Na'vi to yell "Aye Carrumba!". And don't even get me started on the shallow, stereotypical characters.

Oh, and the visuals weren't terribly impressive. How to Train your Dragon was MUCH better, and I absolutely adored that movie. I'm sure it was awesome in 3D, but it takes more than flashies and sparklies to get me into a movie.

[Ultra Magnus]

Am I the only one who doesn't like this movie? He ripped off every movie ever made, including my beloved Flash Gordon. I didn't get the meaning of the South Park episode about the movie until I watched it. "You can't just take someone else's idea and put your name on it!" ~Stan Marsh

And what's up with the racism? That's the most stereotypical portrayal of "tribal" peoples I've ever seen. While watching I was expecting one of the Na'vi to yell "Aye Carrumba!". And don't even get me started on the shallow, stereotypical characters.

Oh, and the visuals weren't terribly impressive. How to Train your Dragon was MUCH better, and I absolutely adored that movie. I'm sure it was awesome in 3D, but it takes more than flashies and sparklies to get me into a movie.

It's not just you - I must admit, I wasn't terribly fond of it either, largely because I kept thinking 'I've seen this story before' while watching - I kept thinking of The Last Samurai. I have not been back to watch it a second time, nor do I intend to buy the DVD anytime soon.

[HarryCanyon]

Do you know "The Matrix" wasn't too original either Drake or everyone? if you all thought that was an original movie, your wrong. It was basically just a mix of "Dark City" (Still superior to The Matrix), Japanese animation, "Ghost in The Shell", "Ninja Scroll", "Akira", "True Lies", Frank Herbert's "Dune" (Novel), William Gibson's Sci-fi novels, "City of Lost Children", "Blade Runner", "2001", "Total Recall", "Robocop", "Terminator 1 & 2", Manga (Japanese comics), Dragonball Z, "Tron" etc. and that was still great much like "Avatar" since both Matrix and Avatar are two masterpieces that maybe unoriginal but they are visually stunning movies.

But does anyone think Avatar is like the 1981 kick-ass animated movie "Heavy Metal" (One of my favorite movies) brought to life? i mean it's also like the adult animated comic book "Heavy Metal" brought to life. Anyone familar with both stuff? if not then if your a comic book fan i recommend this still popular after 33 years adult comic magazine to see why it's so influential and also rent the 1981 animated movie and you'll see how similar it is to Avatar. Both movies appeal to every man's former teenage brain and both even have nice animated babes like Neytiri or Taarna.

[Drake]

Ok ok... I'll admit when I made a mistake. I just saw part of Avatar on a spiffy new 3D TV. The visuals really are spectacular. However... the story still sucked.

[Drake]

Do you know "The Matrix" wasn't too original either Drake or everyone? if you all thought that was an original movie, your wrong. It was basically just a mix of "Dark City" (Still superior to The Matrix), Japanese animation, "Ghost in The Shell", "Ninja Scroll", "Akira", "True Lies", Frank Herbert's "Dune" (Novel), William Gibson's Sci-fi novels, "City of Lost Children", "Blade Runner", "2001", "Total Recall", "Robocop", "Terminator 1 & 2", Manga (Japanese comics), Dragonball Z, "Tron" etc. and that was still great much like "Avatar" since both Matrix and Avatar are two masterpieces that maybe unoriginal but they are visually stunning movies.

But does anyone think Avatar is like the 1981 kick-ass animated movie "Heavy Metal" (One of my favorite movies) brought to life? i mean it's also like the adult animated comic book "Heavy Metal" brought to life. Anyone familar with both stuff? if not then if your a comic book fan i recommend this still popular after 33 years adult comic magazine to see why it's so influential and also rent the 1981 animated movie and you'll see how similar it is to Avatar. Both movies appeal to every man's former teenage brain and both even have nice animated babes like Neytiri or Taarna.

The Matrix was original in that nobody ever dared to be that convoluted and confusing in the history of cinema. At least it had a number of original aspects.

[HarryCanyon]

But have you seen the following movies similar to The Matrix like Dark City, Akira and Ghost in The Shell? or even read Dune by Frank Herbert?

[Drake]

But have you seen the following movies similar to The Matrix like Dark City, Akira and Ghost in The Shell? or even read Dune by Frank Herbert?

All except Dune.

[Bayhem]

Special limited edited release of "Avatar".


"Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron today announced that AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION will be released in theaters August 27, in a limited engagement and exclusively in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D."


> http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/spec...ase-of-avatar/

[MOJO2THEREVENGE]

avarar was boring and the 3d really started to hurt my eyes but it did look good and the scale of the film was big, made me think Final Fantasy so I hope it opens the door for that starting with FF7 live action.

[TIMtationX]

Special limited edited release of "Avatar".


"Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron today announced that AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION will be released in theaters August 27, in a limited engagement and exclusively in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D."


> http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/spec...ase-of-avatar/

I liked the movie, but they're going overboard with the money grabbing... it's EIGHT FREAKIN MINUTES of extra footage..... Even worse is the 30$ price tag for a feature-less Avatar Blu Ray Disc, only to sell another $30 Avatar special edition a few months down the road, followed by $30 3D Blu Ray sometime next year......

[wingzero]

The disappointing if not pathetic Avatar is 165minutes long and people watched it over and over worldwide only thanks to marketing despite being the worst James Cameron movie ever.
So..

[alexsm]

The disappointing if not pathetic Avatar is 165minutes long and people watched it over and over worldwide only thanks to marketing despite being the worst James Cameron movie ever.
So..

"thanks to the marketing"?

Do you know that is one of the best public rated movies ever in every website where people can vote? Do you know that, in IMDB, it has 1192/2541 reviews which rate it 9 or higher?

Most people I know saw it more than one time, and that doesn't happen when a movie disappoint.

You may have hated it, but people in general loved avatar.

[jamjam101]

"thanks to the marketing"?

Do you know that is one of the best public rated movies ever in every website where people can vote? Do you know that, in IMDB, it has 1192/2541 reviews which rate it 9 or higher?

Most people I know saw it more than one time, and that doesn't happen when a movie disappoint.

You may have hated it, but people in general loved avatar.

I sometimes use IMDB to get an idea if a movie is good or not if I should watch it. But then it means nothing. Requim for a Dream got 8.5 after nearly 200K votes, but I couldn't even sit through 20 minutes of it cause it was sooo retarded.
People tend to get a little fanboyish when their favorite director comes out with a new movie. I could tell you some of those votes came from people rating the CG alone and nothing else. Its the same reason why shit like Twilight keeps sweeping MTV movie awards...because fangirls are voting for their favorite actors and has nothing to do with how good the movie is.

And Avatar IS JC's worst movie - IMO, as a story, terrible.

[alexsm]

I sometimes use IMDB to get an idea if a movie is good or not if I should watch it. But then it means nothing. Requim for a Dream got 8.5 after nearly 200K votes, but I couldn't even sit through 20 minutes of it cause it was sooo retarded.
People tend to get a little fanboyish when their favorite director comes out with a new movie. I could tell you some of those votes came from people rating the CG alone and nothing else. Its the same reason why shit like Twilight keeps sweeping MTV movie awards...because fangirls are voting for their favorite actors and has nothing to do with how good the movie is.

And Avatar IS JC's worst movie - IMO, as a story, terrible.

I didn't say "Good movie", I said "People liked it" in response to "people watched it over and over worldwide only thanks to marketing". People don't see a movie several times due to marketing if they don't like it.

IMDB is a good source to know if people like or don't like a movie. And a good one if you look a bit more than the rating itself: comments, number of votes, votes distribution (for me, this is the key one).

By the way, I don't agree that Avatar is JCs worst movie. For me is one of his bests, along with Aliens and The Abyss.

And, at least in IMDB, Twilight is getting fairly low rates. That means people are not liking it.

[wingzero]

I didn't say "Good movie", I said "People liked it" in response to "people watched it over and over worldwide only thanks to marketing". People don't see a movie several times due to marketing if they don't like it.

IMDB is a good source to know if people like or don't like a movie. And a good one if you look a bit more than the rating itself: comments, number of votes, votes distribution (for me, this is the key one).

By the way, I don't agree that Avatar is JCs worst movie. For me is one of his bests, along with Aliens and The Abyss.

And, at least in IMDB, Twilight is getting fairly low rates. That means people are not liking it.

James Cameron's Aliens is still a top-notch movie despite its age. It's still one of the best sci-fi movies ever made along with his own two first Terminator movies that started that franchise.

Twilight low rates on IMDB are just thanks to marketing employees.. competitors with fake accounts used to vote against other studios products and in favour of their own.
That is the only reason why a movie like Avatar got some high numbers there. It's all a marketing trick.
Avatar sucks. 3D wise it's pathetic (where the heck is 3D effect? More realistic what? Cartoonish as much as useless!). The CGI is just barely average for a console game, absolutely cartoonish, poor rendering, mechanical models just silly, people on green and blue screen easily spotted. If it wasn't for the huge psuedo-ambientalistic marketing campaign millions of adults worldwide wouldn't have spent a fortune to watch it in theaters first and DVD/Blu-Ray later.
What is really pathetic as much as silly is the fact that the majority of those same adults but even teenagers that praised Avatar like it was the best movie ever are the same accusing Transformers1&2 to be childish awful movies and so on and on...
They are sheeps. They follow what marketeers tell them to buy and love without using their own brains even a little bit to properly judge.

Amazon's IMDB rating is absolutely flawed. Studios employees, marketeers with tons of fake accounts invade discussion boards and give votes to alter truth and make their own marketing campaign the truth.. they don't need much more than some thousands fake accounts to achieve the sheeps-follow-orders effect... it's a basic strategy to control the masses.

[jamjam101]

I didn't say "Good movie", I said "People liked it" in response to "people watched it over and over worldwide only thanks to marketing". People don't see a movie several times due to marketing if they don't like it.

IMDB is a good source to know if people like or don't like a movie. And a good one if you look a bit more than the rating itself: comments, number of votes, votes distribution (for me, this is the key one).

By the way, I don't agree that Avatar is JCs worst movie. For me is one of his bests, along with Aliens and The Abyss.

And, at least in IMDB, Twilight is getting fairly low rates. That means people are not liking it.

i agree with your 'marketing statement', however, not everyone that like's a film will rate it.

James Cameron's Aliens is still a top-notch movie despite its age. It's still one of the best sci-fi movies ever made along with his own two first Terminator movies that started that franchise.

Twilight low rates on IMDB are just thanks to marketing employees.. competitors with fake accounts used to vote against other studios products and in favour of their own.
That is the only reason why a movie like Avatar got some high numbers there. It's all a marketing trick.
Avatar sucks. 3D wise it's pathetic (where the heck is 3D effect? More realistic what? Cartoonish as much as useless!). The CGI is just barely average for a console game, absolutely cartoonish, poor rendering, mechanical models just silly, people on green and blue screen easily spotted. If it wasn't for the huge psuedo-ambientalistic marketing campaign millions of adults worldwide wouldn't have spent a fortune to watch it in theaters first and DVD/Blu-Ray later.
What is really pathetic as much as silly is the fact that the majority of those same adults but even teenagers that praised Avatar like it was the best movie ever are the same accusing Transformers1&2 to be childish awful movies and so on and on...
They are sheeps. They follow what marketeers tell them to buy and love without using their own brains even a little bit to properly judge.

Amazon's IMDB rating is absolutely flawed. Studios employees, marketeers with tons of fake accounts invade discussion boards and give votes to alter truth and make their own marketing campaign the truth.. they don't need much more than some thousands fake accounts to achieve the sheeps-follow-orders effect... it's a basic strategy to control the masses.

I have to disagree with one point. as bad as Avatar was, as a movie and as a 3D, the CG in 2D is in fact really good - surpasses Pixar