I just came back from watching "Avatar"

[Valiere]

I decided not to see this movie after I read an interview where James Cameron said of the design of his female alien character:

Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits," even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.

Yeah, way to stick to the official canon of your universe there, James.

[Darkfox]

Does anyone else feel a similarity to Nightcrawler from X-Men here?

[SaiKar]

Okay, just saw it, some thoughts that are spoiler-free.

The CG was amazing (anyone who says it isn't is just being a dick) and some of the themes involving the alien life were fairly clever, but it's not something I felt I hadn't seen before. I'm not going to talk about the plot but pretty much all the stuff from the trailer happens exactly how you'd expect it to. If I had been given the entire cast list and a brief bio on each character, I could have told you who lived or died and how and I would have been disturbing close. The action sequences followed predictable outcome: "good side starts losing, but wait, ace in the hole!" repeated four or five times. It never really built much suspense because you knew the main characters were in no real danger. Though I guess I'm slipping into criticism on movies in general and not just Avatar, so maybe it's not fair to count that against it. But then again, I heard this was supposed to redefine movies entirely, and so I'm left with wondering how it was supposed to do so when it followed almost all established guidelines for plots and characters.

It was definitely a GOOD movie. I sure don't feel like I wasted my time or my money. And after watching the trailers for upcoming movies and having them all pretty much look worse than Avatar, I can say it's one of the better movies. If it hadn't been hyped up so high as it was it would probably be amazing and get very little criticism. But people are expecting the best movie ever made, which is all sorts of impossible, so of course "not as good as the hype" is going to be a common response.

I'd say go see it. There's no real reason not to, unless you just don't like action sci-fi fantasy-ish sort of movies. It's not groundbreaking, but it does what it does well.

I decided not to see this movie after I read an interview where James Cameron said of the design of his female alien character:

Yeah, way to stick to the official canon of your universe there, James.

Eh? Early on in the movie the dialog calls the aliens mammals, and the defining characteristic of a mammal is the females having mammary glands, aka tits. I don't know of any creature that is roughly their shape that ISN'T a mammal, so what's the big problem here? If you want to complain about the exobiology in the movie you could poke a bazillion holes in Avatar's alien life, but you could do that for pretty much every sci-fi ever made, so that's hardly fair. You either buy the fact the aliens look sort of humanoid or you don't.

[Grandy]

Does anyone else feel a similarity to Nightcrawler from X-Men here?

Not really. Nightcrawler was blue, but was much less feline-like, and not six feet tall either.

Having said that, I said to my friend a few jokes about how "I've never seen the smurfs so worked up before!" on some action scenes.

[Shantotto]

i heard avatar was pretty good so i might go see it

[lonewolf]

avatar game any one ?

http://www.littlewoods.com/rf//navigation/mainsearchthumbs.do?Nty=1&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Ntk=generic_search&N=85+103&Nu=this_product&Ntt=Avatar%20Games&Np=1

saving up for the pc one

[Valiere]

Eh? Early on in the movie the dialog calls the aliens mammals, and the defining characteristic of a mammal is the females having mammary glands, aka tits. I don't know of any creature that is roughly their shape that ISN'T a mammal, so what's the big problem here? If you want to complain about the exobiology in the movie you could poke a bazillion holes in Avatar's alien life, but you could do that for pretty much every sci-fi ever made, so that's hardly fair. You either buy the fact the aliens look sort of humanoid or you don't.

If the movie calls them mammals, then why does he state in an interview that they aren't?

[Bluhman]

Retcon during film production to make it make scientific sense, I'd think.

[Archem]

avatar game any one ?

http://www.littlewoods.com/rf//navigation/mainsearchthumbs.do?Nty=1&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Ntk=generic_search&N=85+103&Nu=this_product&Ntt=Avatar%20Games&Np=1

saving up for the pc one

Only thing I find interesting about the game is that it's the first game to officially support that new 3D technology. I saw a demo of that stuff a while back, running Burnout Paradise. It was mighty amazing. If that stuff starts becoming a normal game feature, I'll never spend another moment away from my GameStation 3.

[HobomasterXXX]

Only thing I find interesting about the game is that it's the first game to officially support that new 3D technology. I saw a demo of that stuff a while back, running Burnout Paradise. It was mighty amazing. If that stuff starts becoming a normal game feature, I'll never spend another moment away from my GameStation 3.

I'm pretty sure Borderlands supports 3D. Assuming you're talking of the 3D I think you are.

[Cosmos]

He changed his mind after the interview?
Or maybe they're mammals, just not placental mammals.

It was prolly a joke. =p

[fruckert]

I'm pretty sure Borderlands supports 3D. Assuming you're talking of the 3D I think you are.

Stereoscopic 3D.
Like the one that that Sly Cooper game tried to do at the very end that I never checked out because that game is pretty embarrassing to buy alone.

[Rowan]

I can't say whether this or District 9 was better. They are both somewhat similar, and I thoroughly enjoyed both movies.

[Nandez]

Well I kind want to see after seeing Dances With Smurfs, but I never could figure out why this movie is such a big deal though I have yet to see it.
Though I find it kind of funny and incredibly stupid how the movie is creating controversy because there are no openly gay blue people.

[fruckert]

...are you serious.