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'Avatar' pulled from 2-D screens by Chinese government
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According to a report in the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, the move was made at the urging of propaganda officials who are concerned that "Avatar" is taking too much market share from Chinese films and drawing unwanted attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions.
Saw this movie a while ago, and fuck me. It is AMAZING. Awesome visual effects, and awesome storyline!
And I find it weird that I found the blue girl (main character) attractive, as 1. Shes CG and 2. She's blue... and alien.
Best film EVER though, I don't understand how people don't like it.
Guess someones a closet furry. You and m00kz should go out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter
bet they didnt like District 9 then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timo
Fuck took the words right out of my mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathen
Welp. Kinda odd how it showed this guy falling in love with an alien. Guess he's a furry too.
LOVE IS UNIVERSAL
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6114914.shtml
Ouch, sucks for him.Quote:
Taiwanese Man Dies after Watching "Avatar"
Report Claims Man with High Blood Pressure Suffered Stroke from "Over-Excitement"
saw that.
Was loling.
Lol, but Chinese films are terrible, nobody watches them. I would know, after living in Hong Kong for 16 years >_>Quote:
Originally Posted by Timo
I feel bad for laughing at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Limited
funny, as it's a much better filmQuote:
Originally Posted by Heathen
yes I just said that
and you're damn right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huero
story > visuals, and pocahontas is pretty terrible tbqfh.
when it comes to actually looking real district 9 is better anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by Cagerrin
though I will say the visuals in avatar are indeed fantastic
D9 had a more original story, but I hated the main character for all my soul.
Avatar was better.
D9 and Avatar were done by the same effects company at the same time. :eng101: I would propose that D9 looks more "realistic" because the color palette is less colorful, and therefore more "realistic" compared to the human/normal stuff. Avatar has a photorealistic, yet surreal look to it. I know that's a little oxymoronic, but that's the best way I can describe it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huero
*dedicates life to finding Pandora*
It is after all quite obvious that they just sent a film crew there and filmed all of this!
And I thought the effects in Lotr The Return of the King were good.
Actually, the effects in Return of the King were decidedly bad for a movie of its caliber. Gollum was good, but a lot of the other stuff just struck me as "woah, there's some shady CGI" instead of "holy shit it's going to melt my face!"
fucking gorgeous environments. my eyes were popping out of my head the whole time. the story is a bit cliche and the message too, but that said it's a message which is seemingly ignored at every turn so i guess that's not too much of a problem. the character design pissed me off. they made the n'avi look like something right out of a furry's deviantart page; rather than go with more creative or sensible designs, they basically decided to draw inspiration from the aforementioned in order to appeal to the masses (furries, weeaboos, etc.) easily. cheap, in my book. that said they did do a good job of making them seem like legit indigenous tribes. the fact that marines were referred to as being army men at the start would no doubt piss any real marines off, but that's more a nitpick than anything else.
the aircraft design was more than a little awesome, largely because they didn't overdo it and based them heavily on existing craft or concept art for future space shuttles. the native wildlife was alright, perhaps a bit too samey at times but there was some interesting variety and it was also cool to see inspiration drawn from pterodactyls and even two animals at once sometimes (rhino, hammerhead).
visuals were fucking stunning, and the use of 3d helped immensely. it was also a very rare legit use of 3d, which is to say not throwing shit at the audience every five minutes just to wave your dick around
overall, glad i saw it, but also glad i waited for it to become less of a zoo. worth the hype? maybe, maybe not. worth watching? definitely.
and holy fuck, do i wish earth had more phosphorescent flora and fauna.
TL;DR:
:aaaaa:
I can testify to that being Rossmum's expression almost 90% of the movie since I saw it with him (again, XD).
I finally got around to seeing it myself yesterday, it was absolutely stunning. And I love the 3D effect.
It's amazing how the brain works, at the start of it all, the action scenes seemed somewhat blurry due to the brain not being used to this new level of cinema, however you can feel it adjusting and near the end, you can enjoy the film in it's full 3D glory!
And my god, yes, the environments and fauna+flora were absolutely stunning.
at first thought the glowy trees brought back bad memories.
getting lost for hours on first playthrough of 343 gs aaaaaa
by the end of the movie I hardly noticed the 3D. am I the only one?
I think you're reading this off wrong. Most people if you called them a furry would not have any idea of what the hell you're talking about, us being on the internet, we can make a connection like that plausible as furries are a huge deal in our "society". What he wanted to do I think, is to create an entirely different alien species, but because of the whole falling in love factor, he had to give them somewhat humanoid personalities and parts so people felt more passion for the love then "ewww bestiality". Remember in district 9, the cross species prostitution? I bet you didn't go "awwww yeaa". Anyways, furries are people who masturbate to animals with humanoid parts (no shit) and so when we see these humanoid species, we automatically think OMFG FURRY. Same effect as when you see a cross with bent ends you think "omfg nazis" when it is a very important sign in Buddhism.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
i know but seriously, huge eyes, pointed ears, cat noses, blue skin with tigerstripes, and tails? isn't there some better way to make them seem human-like and not gross everyone out totally, but also not make them so painfully furry-like?
I'm with Rossmum, but on a different level. At first I thought "Wtf why would Cameron design an alien species like this. Is he a furry?" I mean seriously. It's Pocahontas with furries. :gonk:
i didnt have a problem with it tbh.
it's only a problem if you make it one
My 2 cents
I thought the na'vi were cool... I didn't associate them with furries at any time. They were simply human like in appearance, I'm assuming to draw in the viewer emotionally.
are you two engaged yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
Yeah, the furriness didn't bother me.
it's more that they didn't seem very creative than that they reminded me of furriesQuote:
Originally Posted by ßðÐŻÍ££å
i'm going to literally murder you,Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathen
Well it didn't really bother me either. I just thought the na'vi should've been less... human like. Even just slightly.
I bet mookz didnt care
just finished watching this in 3D. thought it was awesome. the environments were amazing. the creatures were pretty cool too and i like how they followed a consistant morphology although the na'vi in that respect were out of place. i also liked the bioluminescence of nearly everything. (you can blame my 4 years of ecology for that crit)
if i didn't have to go to work and be a grownup i'd start eating acid again just to make life look like pandora lol.
story was shit and i guarantee we'll see a hundred more just like it before we die. best character in the movie: pandora.
Looking like it'll reach 2 Billion Foreign + Domestic combined in its life. First movie ever o.O
I too was uneffected by the furriness until I started reading peoples opinions on the character design. I see how it could be construed as such but there are good reasons for them being as they are.
Also, I want bioluminescent plant life. I'll have to go to university for bioengineering now just so that I can create a gas that will genetically alter all plants on earth to be bioluminescent!
http://en.wikivisual.com/images/8/80...acco_plant.jpg
Tobacco Plant spliced with Firefly genes. Not as exciting as one would think.
sure didn't :realsmug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwood
Are you serious? That owns.Quote:
Originally Posted by Good_Apollo
lies!Quote:
Originally Posted by Good_Apollo
Fireflys are so awesome.
Ftfy. :realsmug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
Light up that plant!Quote:
Originally Posted by Good_Apollo
Just saw the movie the other night. Most amazing thing I've seen to date.
Btw, twirly lizard is awesome.
Paint yourself blue and then post about it.
HOLY FUCK. Holy fuck
Holy shit that was awesome.
Finally saw it eh? Yeah. Awesome.
just got finished watching it a couple of minutes ago.
meh.
basically dances with wolves.
That wasn't the point. :P As clarified earlier in this long discussion thread, the movie was much more about the visual accomplishments than it was the generic story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cojafoji
Yeah. Story? Not awesome. Visuals? Awesome.
the visuals were stunning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siliconmaster
still a meh for me though...
I actually really liked the story -- not so much the plot -- and definitely not the dialogue... but the higher level you go -- the better it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by EX12693
Meh. It was okay.
I knew what the plot was going to be in its most general sense, but I really liked the little stuff- the story about the Avatars, the ecology of Pandora, the specific characters. Sure, some of the dialogue was a little weak, but I hnestly didn't care that much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phopojijo
It and District 9 are both nominated for Best Picture, just so you know. Then again, so was that piece of garbage "Up"...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cojafoji
Wait a minute, how is it Up gets nominated for Best Picture and The Road doesn't? In fact, why is The Road not nominated for anything? It deserves to at least win Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, and most certainly Best Cinematography, and it wasn't nominated for a damn thing. While I'm on the subject of Oscars for the moment, George Clooney has to stop getting nominations for recycling the same character for all his movies.
Getting back to Avatar, though, I thought it was a great movie, a monumental achievement, and an awe-inspiring spectacle, and I'm glad it got nine nominations (probably didn't deserve a few of them, but I'm glad it got recognition anyway), and I hope it walks away with a few wins outside the technical field also. Same basic sentiment for District 9, only MUCH more diluted. That being said... as far as movies go, The Hurt Locker and The Road not only were able to hold their own with Avatar for a fraction of the budget, but in many respects were more evocative than Avatar.
I agree completely. Its just that its not really a movie that appeals to mass audiences. It shows a much less glamorous kind of apocalypse. The Book of Eli for instance, is the type that appeals much more. Viggo Mortenson (sp?) was fantastic though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rorschach
I thought Hurt Locker was ok, I know this guy who just got back from Iraq (he also had a lot of experience with disarming IEDs) and he told me the movie was a piece a shit. Apparently it's nothing close to what it's really like over there.
haters, I loved the story.
I'm not saying I didn't, just that it could be criticized for having been done before (the Dances-With-Wolves plotline, not the Na'Vi/Avatar stuff).Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathen
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Originally Posted by Advancebo
While The Hurt Locker was a pretty cool action movie, it in no way represents the EOD corps (which is actually really small) and its members. The fucking film is just a movie length recruitment video for the military. Don't fall for this propaganda.
Yeah, well most movies that get Oscar nominations don't appeal to the mass audience, mostly just the objectively dedicated and cinema-buff types. To quote Christian Slater talking with Saul Rubinek in True Romance, they're "unwatchable movies based off unreadable books". The rest of the world, who is busy in the theater watching Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich movies for the explosions and then complaining about it after the credits for being mindless action, only picks up on or realizes that the movie exists until after the fact, when it's already up for consideration. Hell, critical acclaim is usually half the advertisement that the movies that end up scoring big in the Oscars get. Otherwise, the casual audience isn't going to the theater to ponder over the sociopolitical metaphors in the abstract foreground of a post-modern, avant-garde piece of arthouse swill. Anyone who's seen the Onion Movie knows exactly which scene I'm thinking of right now. If not, sorry, it ain't on Youtube.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corndogman
saw it again.
why does pandora kick so much ass in comparison to this world.
FM Universe.
Pandora is REAL. :saddowns:
:joke:
use [ninja] tags when you want to hide something.
i use source theme and white on black back round does not make it hard to see.
Still haven't seen this yet...
How have you not seen this movie? It made $2 billion internationally... statistically speaking, you saw it three times already. :maddowns:
same~Quote:
Originally Posted by PlasbianX
Its worth it...take it from someone who is suspicious of any popular movie ever since watching Napoleon Dynamite. Biggest waste of time ever. Avatar, however, was great.
That's what she said :downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathen
(haven't seen it either)
My parents offered me to go see this with them during our Christmas Break. I didn't really believe the hype before I saw the sales and my classmates' response to this movie. That night, I instead chose to productively work on a college admission supplement.
That's right, you heard me. My parents offered me to go watch this movie with them.... in 3D... and I effectively denied. I have not watched this movie yet.
........ I denied the opportunity to watch this movie.
.............. Denied.
:suicide:
school, success, good life > avatar imho.
Just make sure you see it.
P sure that's backwards Heathen!
You have such a HOT sig freelancer. DAMN.
And, Avatar is just amazing.
