Avatar - Welcome to the future of cinema!

Doesn't look my type of film at all. I'm really CGI-ed out with films, I was bored with them a good 5 years ago or so. You can see from the trailer that on 3D screens, that may look pretty 'epic', but it's all digital effects, leaves me cold personally. Some well placed, well constructed CGI kept to a minimum can be very effective in a film. I just can't be arsed with the overkill though and I doubt in the end I'll bother to see this

Dunno how folk can possible criticise the plot or storyline on the back of that mind!
 
As an art form 3-D cinema simply stinks

As an art form 3-D cinema simply stinks | Kevin Maher - Times Online

So, “Avatar Day” has been and gone, but the dream of 3-D cinema is almost upon us. A 15-minute preview teaser for the director James Cameron’s 3-D sci-fi movie Avatar (his first fiction feature since Titanic in 1997) was released across the globe on Friday, and with it came the prospect of a world converted entirely to 3-D cinema, of a magical, mind-altering, cinema going experience for everyone, and of an art form utterly transformed. There is, however, just one snag: it’s all rubbish.

The trailer only managed to reveal, yet again, how 3-D is the ideal format for demonstrating the laws of diminishing returns. The initial thrill of witnessing alien flora poking, seemingly, through the cinema screen is quickly replaced by “spectacle fatigue” and the nagging sense that the story of giant, blue-skinned, jungle warriors flirting and fighting in a phosphorescent jungle might actually be a bit naff (think The Dark Crystal meets FernGully: The Last Rainforest).

There was nothing in the footage, as there was nothing in recent 3-D blockbusters such as Monsters vs Aliens or Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, to suggest that 3-D is anything other than a trick to squeeze more out of the giddy, yet increasingly wearisome thrills, of point-of-view movie chases.

Despite the chatter from Cameron, and from the Hollywood honchos bankrolling his dream, there is no aesthetic justification for a wholesale transition to 3-D film-making. This is a technological evolution that is being aggressively championed by corporate Hollywood which stands to make, according to some analysts, up to $16 billion (£10 billion) in profits over the next decade from it. Higher ticket prices, cheap distribution costs (3-D films are digital, and will be streamed electronically rather than physically delivered) and a host of ancillary industries (such as the manufacture of designer 3-D glasses) all point to a cash bonanza.

Which is why enormous amounts of time and money (Avatar, according to some guesses, will cost $300 million) are being spent on denying that, as a format, 3-D stinks. It is designed to elevate the unthinking wham-bam of spectacle over quieter dramatic subtleties. It rubbishes the notion of carefully composed cinematography by exploding everything out of the frame in a crass, undignified mess.

3-D is fundamentally anti-cinematic because it transforms film from a medium where, according to the French film-maker Jean Cocteau, “the whole audience dreams together”, into a theme park distraction where the audience shouts, “duck!” together. And no amount of Avatar Days, hoopla and marketing spin can change that.
 
Brad said:
As an art form 3-D cinema simply stinks

As an art form 3-D cinema simply stinks | Kevin Maher - Times Online

So, “Avatar Day” has been and gone,

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3-D is fundamentally anti-cinematic because it transforms film from a medium where, according to the French film-maker Jean Cocteau, “the whole audience dreams together”, into a theme park distraction where the audience shouts, “duck!” together. And no amount of Avatar Days, hoopla and marketing spin can change that.
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I don't trust a journalist who breaks the fundemental rule of english, using And to start a sentence :nono:

I used to like The Times, but they've gone very shit in recent years. Their cinema/movie reviews are at times a mystery. They seem to write a review then blindly pick out a random rating.

Personally, I shall ignore the negative journalism (like I do with the positive reviews) and judge the film for myself when its released.

He gave Jacksons King Kong 5 stars fgs.
 
Problem is the same was written about 2d cinema in relation to books and the stage.

I think 3D will never become much more than a novelty but interesting and artistic things can be done with it. I think it will have its place but it's not going to revolutionise the industry in the way that the studios hope (if for no other reason than a failed attempt to trump the pirates).
 
The new trailer is far better than the first, saw it in the cinema earlier. I'm creaming my pants about watching this in 3D now.
 
Avatar looks interesting. Looking forward to seeing it. No better sci fi for me though than Dr Who. Great writing and screenplay. Britain's best. New special airs Sunday in UK. Should be a torrent by midnight.
 
Every time I hear this billed as Cameron's first movie since Titanic, I always think "No, he made Aquaman...".

Damn you Entourage!
 
It looks crap, to be honest. I usually don't mind going to see crap films if they have lots of stuff exploding or some other level of coolness, but this just doesn't appeal to me.

Plus, having seen the trailer, I already know the entire plot to the film, which happens to be the same exact plot that's been used about 500 times before
 
noodlehair said:
It looks crap, to be honest. I usually don't mind going to see crap films if they have lots of stuff exploding or some other level of coolness, but this just doesn't appeal to me.

Plus, having seen the trailer, I already know the entire plot to the film, which happens to be the same exact plot that's been used about 500 times before
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You are too negative Barry.
 
Count Duckula said:
It's had merely good reviews :wenger: Most reviewers are praising the techonology, but saying that the story itself is - predictably - quite clichéd and thin.

You don't half spout shit like you're speaking the gospel.
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:lol:Oh thats rich coming from the guy who created the thread stating our strikers are shite

Oh and the reviews have actualy been very good
 
I have never seen a film in this 3D mode bollocks and never will. Cinematography is what makes a film look great, I don't need to feel as if the leaves of a forest are almost brushing against my face for fecks sake.
 
It looks like that FernGully cartoon from the 90s in 3D.
 
Interested to see this flick!

I'm running the risk here in sounding tight - which i'm far from. Quite the opposite actually - money burns a hole in my pocket most of the time.

Its gettin a little more pricey now to go to the Cinema, so much for the standard of living dropping to coincide with the economic situation.

In Cineworld in Dublin, it costs €10.40 (Mon-Sun) to view a flick after 5pm & €8.30 (Mon-Fri) to view a flick before 5pm.

I dont finish work til 5.30pm so i'd have to pay the higher rate of €10.40. Add in an extra €1.90 to watch a 3D flick plus €0.80 for 3D glasses, thats €13.10 for me alone without any munchies!

I'd be bringing the missus, so thats €26.20 before popcorn etc.. add the munchies & its upwards of €40.00 or more, plus €20.00 in Taxi's = €60.00 approx!

I remember when going to the cinema was a method of not going out, in order to save money - not so much anymore!
 
Crikey Cineworld has gone up in price since I was in Dublin. Was only 6.50 for students during the week.

I'll be going to this in 3D in Galway, which is 10.50 I believe, well worth it.
 
cina said:
Crikey Cineworld has gone up in price since I was in Dublin. Was only 6.50 for students during the week.

I'll be going to this in 3D in Galway, which is 10.50 I believe, well worth it.
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Always fancied gettin the "Unlimited" yoke, but would I actually get full value out of it I dont know. You'd need to be goin more than twice a month to reap the benefits, and sometimes I just cant be arsed tbh. Havent been in a few months now!

Interesting to see how this whole 3D carry-on works on the big screen :cool:
 
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