Pixar drama is usually better executed than this film’s, so that’s an odd comparison (you’re right about being hyper-unoriginal, especially for a film that was supposedly in the works for so long)
and it seemed pretty scifi to me. I mean, Space marines, come on.
I’m seeing it tomorrow in 3d… I think.
Yeah, but then you gotta ask yourself, would you consider Pixar’s Monster’s Inc. or Monsters vs Aliens a sci-fi movie? What is a sci-fi movie?
Definitely a movie that focuses on science, which is what I think Avatar lacked enough focus in to be considered a sci-fi.
I think that having robots fighting aliens on another planet with the title based upon the fact that people are using science to transfer their consciousness to an alien body to negotiate the ability to obtain a material that fucking makes mountains fly sets it firmly in the Science Fiction genre.
EDIT: I’m going to see it again tomorrow. Or actually, today, from my timezone.
Anyway, I have the DS game and I must say it’s actually pretty decent for a movie game. It has its own story and feels like Legend of Zelda. “Feels” meaning its bscly a LoZ clone, but it’s a clone done well.
:facepalm:
How much science was shown in Star Wars?
How much science was shown in the Matrix?
Personalty, I loved it.
I saw it in 3d, it was awesome. I was speechless walking out of the theater.
I saw it in 2D and then 3D, 3D an infinitely better experience
Holy shit it’s Klaymore!
this movie was a waste of time in my opinion. those 7 years what’s his face spent waiting to make this movie could have been used to… I don’t know, work on the script?
If I wanted to watch a movie about native americans, I would watch a GOOD movie about native americans… maybe Last of the Mohicans… hell even pocahontas had a better story.
the visuals were… cool I guess, but it wasn’t anything I hadn’t seen before. Speaking personally, if we’re talking about graphical prowess I was much more impressed with the opening to Star Wars Episode 3… or… any other movie that’s come out recently to be honest.
Ha, that was posted awhile ago. “Oh no! There’s not a gay alien in the movie! PROTEST!” 
The visuals were nice, but yeah they didn’t seem that groundbreaking.
Avatar’s story absolutely sucked–if I wanted storyless eyecandy, I would’ve watched a pornography.
:meh:
lrn 2 Cameron
Sorry to doublepost, but fuck, dude. Ep3’s opening didn’t have shit on this movie’s effects.
Especially since the best stuff went right over your head.
Did you know the real Sully’s legs were CG through the whole movie? Sam Worthington doesn’t have cripped legs. Sure it sounds obvious, but looking at it, it’s fucking incredible.
whoa, holy shit. i love it when directors dont get all in your face with special effects and only use them for lame things like explosions, but instead use special effects the viewer doesn’t even notice, like the legs. damn.
Wow, I didn’t notice that was CGI either.
Loved it, saw it in 3D and def want to see it again.
Also, the beginning of SW Ep3 was terrible. Too much CGI on the screen, utter tosh!
I personally thought the movie was not about native Americans, but rather about what could become of humanity in the distant future, given we survive and solve our energy problems fast enough to develop means of intergalactic space travel.
A species so dumb, greedy and evil that the few decent members, given the opportunity, would willingly choose to rather become a member of a different sentient species on a distant planet and start to kill their own (former) brethren. Come to think of it - that’s already the case today, I believe. At least for some people I know.
I didn’t expect a mindblowing story script, not with such a focus on visuals being the base of the whole movie project from the very beginning. But the story was moving, the action was tense, the music was fitting and the “rallying of the clans” with the protagonist quietly narrating from off the screen even got a tear into my eye, so it was good enough for me to be drawn into it. I might be easily moved, but well - all the better for me, eh?
For a movie that supposedly was not scientific enough to be science fiction, there was pretty much science in it.
Advanced but recognizeable weapon systems (loved the 'copters), cryogenic stasis chambers, space travel ships the size of the ISS and with rotating sections to simulate gravitational force, aerodynamic dropships designed to penetrate atmosphere and transport personnel onto a planet’s surface, an earthlike planet being one of the moons of a gas giant in a distant solar system, having less gravitational force than Earth and thus being home to much larger and taller species than our homeworld, alien species capable of engaging in temporal symbiosis with many different kinds of animals and plants, genetically engineered host bodies made from alien and human dna for the purpose of using them as “avatars” by projecting the conscious of a human being into them by technological means, advanced display technology (detachable, transparent holoscreen displays) and so on and so on…
No science fiction? Come on… give credit where credit is due.
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