If you didn't see it in 3-D, your opinion is completely invalid. That's like reviewing a restaurant from listening to people outside who are talking about it. You missed an entire third of the movie, you 2-D nooooooob! Delete that podcast, loser!
-----Original Message----- From: Cary Preston <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Dec 31, 2009 8:10 am Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] An Avatar Tale (No Spoilers) If I had been 12, this would have been the greatest movie I'd ever seen. Unfortunately, I have seen a few movies in the past 15 years so yeah, as I said in the podcast this is the most beautifully done cliche in the history of filmmaking. Very enjoyable (although I couldn't bring myself to go to the 3D showing) and I'd definitely recommend seeing it, but beyond the visual appeal it's tired and trite. I noticed some Last Samurai, Dances With Wolves, and Fern Gully aplenty in the story. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Edward Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay. So this is a Avatar thread? Is this the first one posted since the > movie came out two weeks ago? Maybe. I haven't been paying too close > attention with the holidays being so busy. > So, without spoilers I will say that it was an enjoyable film. Extremely > gorgeous, but I think I only enjoyed it for the beauty of it. The story is > old and has been done over many times. I almost compare it to a modern day > Dances with Wolves. I'm trying very hard here to not give away spoilers > but seriously, I believe we all have seen this same story over and over > again. > However, just for the beauty of it, I would recommend everyone go see this > movie, especially in 3D. It may be the most beautiful movie ever. > By the way, there were parts I did fall asleep due to the boring and > extremely cliche portions of the movie, but don't let that stop you as I > tend to have A.D.D., even with movies these days. > > -- > Have a Better One, > Edward Crosby > http://www.edwardcrosby.com > ----- > "There are no atheists in foxholes or firmware updates." > Merlin Mann > >> I haven't seen Avatar, but I loved your story! >> Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee you looked for them. ;) >> >> The Irredeemable Shag >> http://firestormfan.com >> http://onceuponageek.com >> http://twitter.com/onceuponageek >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [The Unique Geek] An Avatar Tale (No Spoilers) >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Thu, December 31, 2009 6:41 am >> To: [email protected] >> >> Went to see Avatar on Christmas with another couple. In the car, the >> girls admitted neither one really wanted to see it. Who are these girls? >> So...we settled on Sherlock Holmes. That's why we don't buy tickets in >> advance! So, got to the theater. Packed! Everything sold out but Nine. >> Nine was beyond terrible. A true stinker from the Kingdom of Malodoria. >> Made not seeing Avatar worse than not seeing Avatar. It exists only to >> punish. >> >> The other dude and I pledged to return to see Avatar. It worked out that >> we went tonight. Failed to buy tickets in advance, since Wednesday night >> and who goes to the movies on Wed.? Apparently, the answer is everyone. >> Packed again! Sold out in Imax, Sold out in 3D, sold out in standard >> (which we had no intention of seeing). >> >> We decided to buy tickets for tomorrow in advance, but since the line was >> huge we decided to use one of the machines. I like the machines anyway. >> They work! >> >> This is Seattle, however, and they just got the telephone poles out here, >> so despite the dominance of Microsoft, folks don't know how to use >> machines. Only two people in line ahead of us, but they were, like, >> reading the instructions and unsure if it was touchscreen technology and >> how to select their movie or how to do anything really. They were looking >> at the movie titles and using their Iphone to read reviews of the movie. >> With a line behind them. Where were they raised? The world isn't your >> facebook. You can't just block other people. >> >> So...without getting too Brooklyn on them, I made enough snorts and >> stamps to let them know there was a world beyond the selection screen, >> one even more finely and delicately rendered than the 3-D images of James >> Cameron's epic, one real enough to touch and feel and shame you into make >> a fucking decision. So, they chose and they left, and when I walked up >> to the machine...their tickets came out. And they were for tonight. >> >> It seems they were, in fact, collecting their tickets after having bought >> them in advance, they had never done it before, and they took the receipt >> and not the tickets. So, by the time I pieced this together they were >> long gone, and since the tickets were for a showing in two hours, they >> weren't in the lobby being told they didn't have tickets. They were off >> at a juke joint or a soda shoppe or connecting antennae in the parking >> garage. >> >> So...we sort of looked for them, but sort of took the tickets, grabbed a >> five-dollar footlong, ate a five-dollar footlong and saw the movie on >> their dime. I swear we looked for them, but you know, in Seattle >> everyone wears black hoodies. So...Avatar...in 3-D....for freeeeee! >> >> It was pretty immersive and enjoyable. I liked the hell out of it. >> Thought it was like John Carter meets Adam Strange and then some. It was >> pretty and fun. Not as Ferngully as some of the haters have said. Maybe >> it could have been sexier? Cameron doesn't do that, though. Unless you >> count the drawing scene in Titanic or the headphones scene in Terminator. >> So, liked it, but seeing it for freeeeee probably made me like it even >> more. It made up for paying for Nine. Nine probably owes me two more >> movies. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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