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So I was watching tv and saw that it's getting put out again the 27th, complete with new scenes and whatnot.

So, anybody gonna go see it? I'm thinking my buddy and I'lll go see it.

MUST SEE.

Nah

I'm surprised with all the Twilight bashing around here we don't see more Avatar bashing going on :/ The story at the very least as thin as Twilight's if not much moreso. Honestly not trying to troll despite bringing up flammable material.

Because it's SF.

The man has a valid point. And to answer the original question, there's no way I'd pay to see it again. I might sit through it for free if I was really bored.

I loved the movie (surprise right?) but I could care less about a re release. Congrats and all but Im over it

I'm skipping this one, just as I skipped the theatre with the first. Like every 3D movie being released. directors seem to be running along the lines of "Lol 3D is are kewl an lotz of it are maeks gud moveez!"

Translation:

Story: copypasta/nil
Characters: Shallow, predictable (at best)
Acting: Junior High grade.
Effects (3D, CGI, and Conventional): Through the roof excellent.

Sorry, but unless it's a German film, 25% out of 100% isn't a pass. It isn't even a "Good effort, thanks for trying". Sadly, every 3D movie, since their popularity has resurged, has pretty much followed this 1/4 plan. Spend as little time and effort on the 3 important aspects of a film, so that more time can be spent polishing it's appearance, thus making your standard short-attention-span filmgoer so wowed by the movie's effects that they don't realise that they just got cheated out of $18.00 buying a ticket to a crummy flick, small drink, and small popcorn.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:I'm surprised with all the Twilight bashing around here we don't see more Avatar bashing going on :/ The story at the very least as thin as Twilight's if not much moreso. Honestly not trying to troll despite bringing up flammable material.

I'm with you (to an extent) here Cannerus.
I had zero interest in seeing "Pocahontas in Space" in it's first release (even though it was "visually stunning") and have even less interest in seeing it in Re-release (with extra added CGI boombangpow!)
...Still not a Twilight fan though.

I could stomach the first twilight......but it got incredibly worse. The 2nd gave me acid reflux, Im not kidding, infact thinking about it now is causing a flare up. I cant wait to see what the 3rd installment does. Why cant modern movies be more like the Harry Potter movies? Seriously, they just get better and better.

That 25% type movie is the exact kind of movie I would rather see in a Theater and in 3D though. It the main purpose of the movie is to be super cool to look at, then I want to see it in it's greatest visual form. It's not as if the other 75% is Bad (syfy's got mega shark vs giant octopus on right now for that), they're just nothing Exceptional. Having already seen Avatar in a nice theater I wouldn't go to one again, though I am tempted to see about getting into the local IMAX for it.

KC, the real question is not "Why can't movies be better?", but rather "why did you watch the second Twilight, let alone the first?"

Seriously. No woman could make me do that. Not even the hottest piece of arse on this planet.


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Aduro wrote:That 25% type movie is the exact kind of movie I would rather see in a Theater and in 3D though. It the main purpose of the movie is to be super cool to look at, then I want to see it in it's greatest visual form. It's not as if the other 75% is Bad (syfy's got mega shark vs giant octopus on right now for that), they're just nothing Exceptional. Having already seen Avatar in a nice theater I wouldn't go to one again, though I am tempted to see about getting into the local IMAX for it.

Thing is, once the 3D is gone, you're left with a film that gets a 0/4. Or at least a .5/4 that's right, I just used a decimal in a fraction. Bugger off.

But seriously, by aiming for 25% out of a potential 100, filmmakers aren't seeing what happens when the film -leaves- theatres, and thus, 3D. Suddenly, The people that thought it was -alright- on the big screen have nothing good to say about the home version. I wonder why that is...

How was the second not tons better? There are vague semblances of acting The third is the best by far and the fourth/fifth will, I daresay, be really good since they got a horror direct for it.

The difference is, you have an excuse, playing for both teams and all

Metalifan - Im a married man mate. And my wife LOVES the books, and so LOVES the movies. Its a curse a married man has to take. Ill admit, Ive been looking in a mistress for some time

Cannerus - wait wait wait.....you LIKED the second one? Oh god.... seriously Im getting acid reflux from the damn movie! Im not even joking! STOP LAUGHING ITS NOT FUNNY YOU A HOLES!

KC, I'm living with my girl. It's close enough. She tried to drag me to see the second one, and I ignored the word-noises she made. Then I heard her make some threats about no hankey-pankey for a week and whatnot. I still continued to not care. She didn't hold true to her threats, and I didn't have to see a movie about a book written by an angsty, neglected, daydreaming teenage girl with (at best) a C- in 8th grade English.

I would consider that a victory for men everywhere.

I'll bash. That movie sucked. I was actively angered gby how suckie it was. Even four rum shots couldn't deaden the rage of what couold have been.

Frazzled wrote:I'll bash. That movie sucked. I was actively angered gby how suckie it was. Even four rum shots couldn't deaden the rage of what couold have been.

Finally someone who agrees wholeheartedly, I rented it once I had to turn it off. Nothing was ever explained, you were just to take it as eye candy. Everything else was shocking beyond my meagre comprehension.

The OC-D

I agree with this jpg.

+1 to Ktulhut's .jpg

Depends on what entails 'new scenes'. If it's an hour longer, I might possibly. Otherwise, I'll just read about it. It's obvious the producers are just greedy pigs who want to make more than a billion dollars...

It's only an extra 15 or 30 minutes IIRC

metallifan wrote:+1 to Ktulhut's .jpg

Agree.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:I'm surprised with all the Twilight bashing around here we don't see more Avatar bashing going on :/ The story at the very least as thin as Twilight's if not much moreso. Honestly not trying to troll despite bringing up flammable material.

Hey hey hey, I put a lot of effort into my criticism of Avatar! It is without a doubt the worst dollar-to-quality ratio of any movie to ever exist.

I hope that the people who like Star Wars here and bash Avatar know that Star Wars is just Hidden Fortress In Spaaaace.

I'm going to go see it, I liked Avatar. It was a technological exhibition, and it succeeded imho.

@Orkeosaurus-Yes, but James Cameron couldn't give a rat's ass about your piece of gak opinion to be honest. He's laughing all the way to the bank as you complain and continue your miserable existence.

Hey, a can of worms... I wonder what I should do with it?

Vladsimpaler wrote:I hope that the people who like Star Wars here and bash Avatar know that Star Wars is just Hidden Fortress In Spaaaace.

Nope, I hate star wars too.

Aha, I opened it!

Vladsimpaler wrote:@Orkeosaurus-Yes, but James Cameron couldn't give a rat's ass about your piece of gak opinion to be honest. He's laughing all the way to the bank as you complain and continue your miserable existence.

He'll be laughing out the other side of his face once his motorcade drives past my book depository!

Orkeosaurus wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:@Orkeosaurus-Yes, but James Cameron couldn't give a rat's ass about your piece of gak opinion to be honest. He's laughing all the way to the bank as you complain and continue your miserable existence.

He'll be laughing out the other side of his face once his motorcade drives past my book depository!

I think a book -suppository- would be even worse.

Yikes.

That's plan B.

I think that would be one of those things you would need to film, and then post up on youtube. I mean, yea - seeing someone get a book up the corn chute would be terrifying. And yet, it's one of those things you just have to witness before you kick the bucket.