Films/DVD Asylum

After much resistance I finally saw Avatar yesterday

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and it's fascinating to me that James Cameron can come across as such an egomaniacal, callous tyrant and that he can fill the movie with such hokey dialogue and characters, and use every cliche in the book and have every moment of the film be thoroughly predictable, and still create a work of such immersive beauty... that for the most part... none of the other stuff matters.

"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cameron really showed his asshole colors with this one....once was enough though. * - mr grits 14:10:14 01/14/10 (2)
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
- Don't worry, with the profits from Avatar Cameron can make a movie about Mississippi as an entirely "red" world! (nt) - Audiophilander 10:50:27 01/15/10 (1)
  ;O)
  - Hell, with the profits from Avatar Cameron buy Mississippi... - geoff 12:09:50 01/16/10 (0)
    to wipe his ass.
Hope you're OK - DWPC 14:04:37 01/14/10 (0)
It's having strong effects on people.

"We must beware of those who burn with zeal but are not endowed with much sense." - Angelo Roncalli
- The Avatar Blues? (Open in New Window)
Interesting... - mpathus 00:01:10 01/14/10 (0)
...after seeing "Avatar" excerpts playing on a big Samsung flat panel in Best Buy yesterday, I came away feeling that without the hoopla, dialog, or 3D Imax Experience that it came across like a really good Disney film the likes of which Disney could never make in a million years.

Just an impression.

(And I liked Avatar.)
RE: After much resistance I finally saw Avatar yesterday - rm 23:18:43 01/13/10 (0)
I completely agree with you. I wanted to dislike this movie *while* watching it. The characters and especially the story were so predictable and unoriginal. When I walked out of the theater I thought I had seen the most amazing movie in 10 years. I guess the human mind can be fooled just as easily as ever. And don't we love it!
Resistance is futile-I'm meeting friends at the early Sat. morning IMAX show this weekend nt - padreken 16:36:47 01/13/10 (3)
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- You ain't gonna like the politics but you'll love the film. nt - tinear 09:17:57 01/14/10 (2)
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  - The reviews sufficiently brief on the Dances w/Wolves/ Earth in the Balance aspects - padreken 09:40:52 01/14/10 (1)
    Why would that bother me? I never reject anything based solely on political viewpoints, be it film, art, music, literature...or friendships, for that matter. That would be incredibly shallow.
    - RE: The reviews sufficiently brief on the Dances w/Wolves/ Earth in the Balance aspects - tinear 20:17:56 01/14/10 (0)
      So you'd give Obama a soul shake if you met him? :-)

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