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Brian A

Why has this movie been discussed at least 10X over any other one?

We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along

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That's easy - most popular film ever... - mkuller 10:32:38 02/15/10 (2)
...showcasing new breakthrough 3-D technology.

Trite plot with anti-military-industrial/pro-environmental overtones.

Easy to criticise if you want to appear more sophisticated and erudite than the average film-goer.
- Don't confuse popularity with novelty.....that's what Cameron's films are . . . - mr grits 14:43:45 02/15/10 (1)
  Seem, long term how it rents and sell in the future.
  
  Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
  - RE: Don't confuse popularity with novelty.....that's what Cameron's films are . . . - patrickU 09:54:08 02/16/10 (0)
    excellent.
Imagine a food site so discussing a Bacon cheeseburger. nt - tinear 08:26:36 02/15/10 (6)
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- If you say that after eating one at Del Friscos - Road Warrior 13:29:32 02/15/10 (0)
  I'm gonna suggest a taste bud transplant. It ain't on the menu but they'll fire one up that you won't stop talking about.
  - As good as it gets (Open in New Window)
- Hey! A great Bacon cheeseburger is certainly worthy of discussion!... Ummm... bacon...N/T - musetap 13:23:34 02/15/10 (0)
  N/T
  " Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination."� -Michael McClure
- impossible to imagine - tunenut 12:19:13 02/15/10 (0)
  this could never happen.
  - http://www.chow.com/stories/11152 (Open in New Window)
- Must have been good... - DFaulds 12:15:33 02/15/10 (0)
  if you're comparing it to a bacon cheeseburger.
- Did you see Avatar? - Bambi B 08:48:20 02/15/10 (1)
  tinear,
  
  Your intense dislike of Avatar would be more interesting- and valid- if you could enumerate specific criticisms rather than merely generalised negatives. There are movies in which I could not think of more than one or two redeeming qualities, but with Avatar this is simply not possible- the craftsmanship and technical aspects are astounding regardless of the content.
  
  I may have missed this of course, but I've never noticed in your posts your mentioning actually having seen it.
  
  - Did you see Avatar?
  
  Cheers,
  
  Bambi B
  - Huh? Of course I saw it, as a discriminating reader would discern! First off, - tinear 16:31:39 02/15/10 (0)
    I'm not a fan of its CGI. The figures are far inferior to Miyazaki's inventions, for instance. The story? Let's say childish and let it go at that.
    More particularly about the "appearance:" some, quite obviously, saw the film and thought it was a perfectly realized parallel universe. I didn't, seeing the inferiority of the likenesses' computer workings.
    As I said, Jar Jar Binks multiplied a hundred-fold.
    Now, I don't find it amazing that such a film is so immensely popular. After all, Star Wars similarly is so, and LOTR.
    It is the attempt to somehow present this as more than mindless entertainment that sits poorly with me, and many others.
It's the technology. - free.ranger 21:03:02 02/14/10 (0)
The tech has finally caught up with the 3D potential, which up until this film, has been impossible to deliver with consistent excellence. Digital recording and projection have made 3D the next big thing. Now more theaters will be getting the 3D projectors.

Unfortunately, Disney looks to be the big supplier of these films for the near future, with emphasis on blockbuster fantasy. It will take time for this mode to filter down into non-buster films.

I was reading that the biggest hurdle yet to jump for 3D is to get the public to accept the Polaroid specs handed out at the door. Once audiences get accustomed to that, it should be easier to get more films marketable in 3D, and the medium is expected to take off.
RE: Avatar - Steve O 20:58:32 02/14/10 (0)
1. It's had a larger audience than most films?
2. It's underlying themes and messages are attractive to many and controversial to many others?
3. It's earned a lot of $$$$?
4. It had extensive pre-release publicity?
5. It's had much word-of-mouth post-release publicity?
6. It's polarizing?
7. The improved 3D and CGI are novel?
8. ???

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