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[redbrunja]

Okay, so I didn't even realize that Avatar came out yesterday until all the horrible reviews (and glee at the horrible reviews) started popping up on my flist.

To which I add: hee.

Also, I wanted to link to a fantastic recasting of the movie. 

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think it could have been a good movie, even with the race!fail. From what I'm seeing, even if you factored that out, it is still a terrible movie. But I do support people wanting to decide for themselves.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's currently running at an ABYSMAL 6% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, not to mention a flood of negative viewer reactions on Twitter and YouTube -- even leaving aside the racebending and genderfail, the consensus is that the writing is TERRIBLE, exposition-heavy tell-don't-show, and the acting is largely flat...not to mention that it seems like the half-assed after-process 3D is being universally panned. If you *must* see this, at the very least don't waste your money on the 3D version.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know this is currently, like, cinema blasphemy, but I don't like 3D. Just about ever.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

We can both be heretics together, then! I don't get what makes it such a big deal either -- I saw How to Train Your Dragon in the 3D version and while the effects were cute, they didn't really seem to *add* anything to the movie but a slightly amusing novelty factor, and it just wasn't ZOMG AMAZING enough of an effect to me to justify the higher ticket price.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know! And in live action, they just make the action/image LESS clear.

And the one movie I watched in IMAX had only sections in three D so you had to take these stupid glasses on and off....

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh geeze, that sounds SO annoying!

IMAX would be another one of those things where I don't really see the point, unless the ticket prices come WAY down. I saw some scenery-porn documentary sort of thing in it at a museum a few years ago, and it was kind of cool, but nowhere near cool enough for me to want to pay a premium to see regular movies in it. But considering I'm still using an old, smallish, non-HD television 'cause I just don't spend enough time watching it to justify spending money on an upgrade unless and until it dies, clearly I am so not the bleeding-edge-video target market for this stuff. *shrugs*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It really was.

I've been lucky enough to get really good price deals for the things I've seen on the IMAX... and honestly, I've yet to feel that the gigantic screen has added anything.