It's funny how the box office works on your mind. Like, almost all of us agreed that the second Transformers movie was terrible, but it made so much money. The one guy who liked it wrote a post to the effect of - "It can't suck. It's made 400 million dollars!" At the time, I thought that was annoying. Like, it just meant there were a lot of suckers and that box-office returns are no indication of quality.
But...Avatar has made sooo much money (already one of the top five all time worldwide) that this is the first thing that leaps into my head to "defend" it when people say it's no good. Like, the knee-jerk thing to say is, "It's made almost more money than anything ever! Guess that trumps your puny review!" But I can't do that and remain consistent. I guess the point is, when the figures work in your favor, you want to use them, but it's not fair. So...though the movie is by all definitions a "blockbuster," I guess that should be left out of any discussion of it. Besides, since I saw it for freeeeeee, it's not like I contributed to the number. Haw! I really did look for those people... because I didn't want them to catch me! -----Original Message----- From: Race <[email protected]> To: The Unique Geek <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jan 4, 2010 1:12 pm Subject: [The Unique Geek] Re: An Avatar Tale (No Spoilers) Since this has become the defacto 'Avatar thread': First, I enjoyed Ravenface's post. Good stuffs! I believe you went looking for them. I believe in you, Salmon Oyster. I enjoyed the movie. I see where Carey is coming from with the 15 year old comment. This may very well be this generation's Star Wars. Time will tell. My girlfriend and I saw the 3D version. I thought it was neat, I liked it, but honestly I think I could have done just fine without the 3D. My girlfriend had to take the glasses off fairly early in the film, but seemed to enjoy it anyway. (She didn't like the parts where the animals were hurt though. Be they digital or no she didn't like the representation.) Without getting too spoilerific (are we in the safezone now?), it was probably the only Sci-Fi movie that I walked away from feeling vaguely guilty. I am the white man who shoved all the Native Americans off their land. I should feel bad about that, right? And in going to the film it (and by association me) gave my girlfriend a headache. Well crap. On Jan 4, 3:52 pm, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > i love you too Todd now go fuck yourself > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Todd Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > > You are too old for this crowd Grandpa! > > > --------------------------------------------- > > Todd Elliott > > [email protected] > >http://www.theuniquegeek.com/ > >http://www.google.com/profiles/thelliott > > > -- > > 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]<theuniquegeek%[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.
