I'm going to see this tonight, in 3-D.
Expect a world exclusive review later on if I don't go bed.
Expect a world exclusive review later on if I don't go bed.
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Its been getting good reviews. Who knows, it might be okay.
Where is it showing tonight ? Thought it didn't start til tomorrow ?
dances with smurfs 3d... 
Watching Avatar in 3D is the best movie going experience I have ever had. It really is that good.
Also, Avatar hit the proverbial nail on the head with its usage of 3D. It's the first movie in my opinion that manages to integrate 3D seamlessly that at times you simply forget that you're watching a movie in 3D until something truly gorgeous and breathtaking happens.
The story can be quite cliched but the experience you get in the cinema still makes you feel for the characters in typical James Cameron style.
The story can be quite cliched but the experience you get in the cinema still makes you feel for the characters in typical James Cameron style.
Sounds like I might have to get some shrooms for this one
I saw it at the Cinema De Lux in Leicester.
I'd agree with Pronewbies comments above to an extent. The movie is jaw dropping on a technical level. I've never seen a full on movie in 3-D before and watching this made me feel like a kid again going to watch Star Wars for the first time.
The alien world Cameron creates is fantastic and it's true that for the first 30 minutes you're a little in awe of everything before you sort of adjust and forget that your wearing a pair of silly plastic glasses. Unfortunately that's where the problems arise as the story really is cliched as hell. Nothing happens in the movie that you wouldn't expect and it's certainly the weakest aspect of the whole experience and as such I'm not sure how it would stand up to repeated viewings (I doubt it would on a non 3-D format).
Despite that I was never bored during the entire 2hrs and 40mins and it's the only movie I can remember that has actually made me care about the CG characters that populate it. You will find yourself hating the humans and siding with these 10ft blue jungle folk as the movie reaches it's climax and it ends with a bang.
So in short. See it. See it in 3-D on a big screen. It's the very definition of a movie 'experience'.
Thanks for the review. I'm going to check out on 3D IMAX this weekend.
My local cinema, I'll be going their as soon as I can
Great film, pretty predictable but it doesn't spoil things, a really good watch.
I may see it next weekend. It's probably going to be very busy this weekend, and I've come to hate dealing with large groups of people. 3-d is the only way I should consider seeing it I assume?
I doubt it will live up to all hype that's being created!!
Same here, but honestly speaking I only watched the trailer so far... yet I did feel that it is so cliche..
Here's a review that is so critical of it: http://www.vancouversun.com/enterta...prey+sentimental+silliness/2349188/story.html
Here's a review that is so critical of it: http://www.vancouversun.com/enterta...prey+sentimental+silliness/2349188/story.html
Yeah I know I hate the crowds, took the day off to see The Dark Knight when it came out just to avoid it
In full agreement with this. It's worth going just for the 3D... Unfortunately if it wasn't in 3D it really wouldn't be worth seeing. There are some good moments but overall it's too corny and cheesey (some of the dialogue
). That said there are numerous great moments from the 3D stuff to keep you entertained. It was great being in a different world.Also:
"We're gonna fight terror, with terror". A not so subtle dig at I wonder who?
This sounds like shit. I won't see it unless there's some blue cat monkey vagina or boobage.
Went to see it last night.
Brilliant. Loved every minute of it.
The 2 hours 40 mins does seem a bit daunting, but the time just flew by.
Brilliant. Loved every minute of it.
The 2 hours 40 mins does seem a bit daunting, but the time just flew by.
People who said they knew this would be shit because of the trailer, are idiots.
Watch this film, and don't go in expecting the worlds greatest plot and character development, it's James Cameron, he never makes the best films in terms of story. Watch it and marvel at the vision he had before he made this, and the audacity to create a new world of things we know are scientifically retarded, but at the same time instantly believable.
This is a full-blown movie, everything is so out-there and honestly 2 hours 40 minutes doesn't seem enough to explore the world he created. It was everything that I wanted and hoped it would be.
Watch this film, and don't go in expecting the worlds greatest plot and character development, it's James Cameron, he never makes the best films in terms of story. Watch it and marvel at the vision he had before he made this, and the audacity to create a new world of things we know are scientifically retarded, but at the same time instantly believable.
This is a full-blown movie, everything is so out-there and honestly 2 hours 40 minutes doesn't seem enough to explore the world he created. It was everything that I wanted and hoped it would be.
I think so too. I still can't fathom how people can judge a film on a trailer.
And this was the first 3-D film I've seen where the added dimension complemented the film in nearly every way. I took them off about 50 times just to compare, and the difference is extremely noticeable.
Yep. You've really got to just drop the cynicism and go with along with the whole thing. That's why I likened it to being a kid again and watching Star Wars for the first time.
I'll probably give it another viewing before it leaves the cinema.
For me, it reminded me of Jurassic Park, at least in terms of making me believe in what I was seeing, without question. The whole time I sat there and I didn't think, oh this is cheesy, or this could have been made better, all I could think of was, this is amazing.
Yep, it was on a purely technical level, a revelation.
I'm normally as anti CGI as you can get but the intergration in this was seemless.
I'm normally as anti CGI as you can get but the intergration in this was seemless.
And I didn't find there was too much CGI or too much focus on visuals.
I noticed and commented on the storyline afterwards, and the people I went with all agreed it could have been made better, but honestly, it didn't really take anything away from the film. There were so many things that didn't make sense, or wouldn't make sense in our world, but I didn't sit there counting up the plot holes, it just worked perfectly.
And I would like to see people brush off 3D films in the future, like they did for this months before it had even come out. Cameron has shown that if you do it right, and use it to complete the film, not make the film, it is certainly adds something fantastic to the film.
I noticed and commented on the storyline afterwards, and the people I went with all agreed it could have been made better, but honestly, it didn't really take anything away from the film. There were so many things that didn't make sense, or wouldn't make sense in our world, but I didn't sit there counting up the plot holes, it just worked perfectly.
And I would like to see people brush off 3D films in the future, like they did for this months before it had even come out. Cameron has shown that if you do it right, and use it to complete the film, not make the film, it is certainly adds something fantastic to the film.
Watched it last night and it was entertaining enough and visually great. The Sigourney Weaver Avatar freaked me out.
Can someone clear something up for me, the humans weren't CGI were they? Because I remember when I first saw the trailer some bits with the humans looked a little fake but I couldn't spot anything wrong with the humans last night. In fact visually nothing stood out as looking fake, didn't enter my mind once which was good.
I've just been told we're going to see it Sunday.
Visually stunning in 3D and a great overall message, forget about the sometimes cheesy dialogue or the predictable outcome..... If you don't go to see this movie you are missing out
Is this a regular old movie, or do I have to go to some fancy 3D movie theater?
Either, but from what I've just seen I can't imagine seeing it in 2D
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Just got back from seeing this and... wow, just wow.
Yes, the plot is a bit clichéd at times, but that doesn't detract a huge amount. The characters can be stereotypical, too, but again... it didn't bother me. The fact is that the story flows in such a way, and the characters work so well, that when things happened in the plot that would normally have me rolling my eyes in disgust, I instead just... went with it. If you let it suck you in it's absolutely fantastic, and Cameron really stamps his mark on it with the characters.
And that's not even mentioning the technical side of it, which is, without question, absolutely superb. From a solely technical aspect it's probably the greatest film ever made - the 3D is AMAZING; you barely even notice that you're watching it once the trailers have rolled past (which are also in 3D, as if to wean you in). And in the parts where the 3D isn't so noticeable, it's just that - not noticeable. You don't see things and wish they weren't in 3D, you're just so used to it by that point that you don't even notice them at all. But in some of the scenes - dear God they were beautiful.
Also, Cameron didn't just wait ages in order to make this film to get the 3D right - he wanted the CGI to be perfect, too. Normally I'm not the greatest fan of CGI; too many filmmakers use it as a fallback for a shit plot and shit direction, but not here. As I've already said, the plot itself is perfectly fine, but the CGI completes it. There are whole swathes of the film that are nothing but computer animated, but you don't notice. They don't jar at all with the scenes that are entirely on-set.
And it's to the insane credit of the CGI artists that in some of the scenes you genuinly don't know what's real and what isn't. Obviously, giant walking robots are going to have been added afterwards, but I saw a picture of the set in the science lab where only the pod and the nearest console were real - yet if you saw the film you'd think everything else in scene was a prop too, they were so lifelike. More than once the two are pictured together, CGI alongside real footage, and yet there's no distortion. No unpleasant clues as to what is CGI and what isn't; no clearly fake bits that have you looking away they're so cringeworthy; no blue screen blur as they superimpose the background. The CGI and the real footage blend absolutely flawlessly, and I can say in perfect truth that I have never seen computer animation so good. I don't see how it can get better - this is the level that the artsits have been aspiring to since computer animation came about. It is genuine perfection.
So, in short, as a film and a plot this is probably a 4 out of 5 film. Which means, of course, that it's still brilliant. People will point to its clichéd nature, but there's a reason for that. Things become clichéd because they're over-used, and they're over-used because they're good, or at least it's what people want to see. Which means movies are saturated with such moments, but it also means that when they're done right they can be exceptionally good. A lot of Star Wars or Lord of the Rings was hideous cliché, but it didn't detract from the quality of the films, and that's because the plot just worked. You were so involved with the characters that the cynical side of you didn't engage to even notice the cliché, and hours afterwards when it did finally pick up on it you'd enjoyed the film too much to care.
Yet if you factor in the technical side, too - the stunningly flawless CGI, and the perfect 3D - you get a 5/5 with no questions asked. It's an unbelievable film (one that, come home cinema release, I can only imagine will truly work on BluRay), but that is just out of this world - quite literally. It's simply gorgeous in places, and the 3D and CGI suck you onto this alternative planet so deeply you'll think you're truly there. I swear everyone in the cinema, me included, spent most of the film wide eyed and mouth agape simply at the sheer wonder of the world that Cameron has created, and... well, I'm rambling. My words cannot do it justice; you'll have to see it for yourself.
So as a film, a plot, a story - it's magnificent. There are better films out there, but this one is still going to be remembered for decades to come because it's still bloody brilliant.
But as a cinematic experience, it might just be the greatest movie ever made.
Just got back from seeing this and... wow, just wow.
Yes, the plot is a bit clichéd at times, but that doesn't detract a huge amount. The characters can be stereotypical, too, but again... it didn't bother me. The fact is that the story flows in such a way, and the characters work so well, that when things happened in the plot that would normally have me rolling my eyes in disgust, I instead just... went with it. If you let it suck you in it's absolutely fantastic, and Cameron really stamps his mark on it with the characters.
And that's not even mentioning the technical side of it, which is, without question, absolutely superb. From a solely technical aspect it's probably the greatest film ever made - the 3D is AMAZING; you barely even notice that you're watching it once the trailers have rolled past (which are also in 3D, as if to wean you in). And in the parts where the 3D isn't so noticeable, it's just that - not noticeable. You don't see things and wish they weren't in 3D, you're just so used to it by that point that you don't even notice them at all. But in some of the scenes - dear God they were beautiful.
Also, Cameron didn't just wait ages in order to make this film to get the 3D right - he wanted the CGI to be perfect, too. Normally I'm not the greatest fan of CGI; too many filmmakers use it as a fallback for a shit plot and shit direction, but not here. As I've already said, the plot itself is perfectly fine, but the CGI completes it. There are whole swathes of the film that are nothing but computer animated, but you don't notice. They don't jar at all with the scenes that are entirely on-set.
And it's to the insane credit of the CGI artists that in some of the scenes you genuinly don't know what's real and what isn't. Obviously, giant walking robots are going to have been added afterwards, but I saw a picture of the set in the science lab where only the pod and the nearest console were real - yet if you saw the film you'd think everything else in scene was a prop too, they were so lifelike. More than once the two are pictured together, CGI alongside real footage, and yet there's no distortion. No unpleasant clues as to what is CGI and what isn't; no clearly fake bits that have you looking away they're so cringeworthy; no blue screen blur as they superimpose the background. The CGI and the real footage blend absolutely flawlessly, and I can say in perfect truth that I have never seen computer animation so good. I don't see how it can get better - this is the level that the artsits have been aspiring to since computer animation came about. It is genuine perfection.
So, in short, as a film and a plot this is probably a 4 out of 5 film. Which means, of course, that it's still brilliant. People will point to its clichéd nature, but there's a reason for that. Things become clichéd because they're over-used, and they're over-used because they're good, or at least it's what people want to see. Which means movies are saturated with such moments, but it also means that when they're done right they can be exceptionally good. A lot of Star Wars or Lord of the Rings was hideous cliché, but it didn't detract from the quality of the films, and that's because the plot just worked. You were so involved with the characters that the cynical side of you didn't engage to even notice the cliché, and hours afterwards when it did finally pick up on it you'd enjoyed the film too much to care.
Yet if you factor in the technical side, too - the stunningly flawless CGI, and the perfect 3D - you get a 5/5 with no questions asked. It's an unbelievable film (one that, come home cinema release, I can only imagine will truly work on BluRay), but that is just out of this world - quite literally. It's simply gorgeous in places, and the 3D and CGI suck you onto this alternative planet so deeply you'll think you're truly there. I swear everyone in the cinema, me included, spent most of the film wide eyed and mouth agape simply at the sheer wonder of the world that Cameron has created, and... well, I'm rambling. My words cannot do it justice; you'll have to see it for yourself.
So as a film, a plot, a story - it's magnificent. There are better films out there, but this one is still going to be remembered for decades to come because it's still bloody brilliant.
But as a cinematic experience, it might just be the greatest movie ever made.
If that's the future of cinema I'm stocking up on DVDs and books.
That might be because they re-used sound effects from Jurassic Park numerous times throughout the film.
That might be because they re-used sound effects from Jurassic Park numerous times throughout the film.
Saw it two times.. both in 3-d. Great entertainment
I'm planning on seeing this at IMAX this week.
im seeing it tomorrow, cant wait
Watched this in 3d tonight.
I'll be honest my only previous experience of 3d has been the rides in America (ie Disneyland, Universal etc)but I kind of knew what I was letting myself in for.
There wasn't much of the 'popping out' of the screen but more an expansion of the depth of the screen. As pointed out in this thread, you do actually forget it's 3D until you notice a scene that looks really good. When you take off your glasses and contrast it's incredible, even ignoring the blurryness.
I really enjoyed it, good film too if a tad predictable
I'll be honest my only previous experience of 3d has been the rides in America (ie Disneyland, Universal etc)but I kind of knew what I was letting myself in for.
There wasn't much of the 'popping out' of the screen but more an expansion of the depth of the screen. As pointed out in this thread, you do actually forget it's 3D until you notice a scene that looks really good. When you take off your glasses and contrast it's incredible, even ignoring the blurryness.
I really enjoyed it, good film too if a tad predictable
Saw this on the weekend.
Stunning 3D scenery.
Stunning 3D scenery.
Loved it. Amazing cinematic experience. I don't see how it could be worth it if you didn't see it in 3D though, the difference is insane.