This thread is dedicated to Avatar the movie by James Cameron(tech,etc

kareem_nasser

This thread is for Avatar you can talk about its tech for 3D like stereoscopy and stuff also your opinion about it and the story,the philosophy behind it....etc.Personally i recommend it to everyone but if want to watch it go with your parents not girlfriend or boyfriend or friends because this doesn't deserve any distraction you need to be 100% concentrating on it to understand it also i dont support ppl who are preservatives to watch it because has a philosophical background different from some religious thoughts.Yeah of course it has action and adventure some love and a bit horror so many genres mixed together.

Disclaimer:I watched the movie in Dunes so Circuit Empire in Real3D and the room with SDDS the glasses where returned because they are for stereoscopy so they are expensive polarized with filters.

P.S:I wish we have IMAX3D theaters in Lebanon.

battikh

the story was not that good, too much of deja vu (from pocahontas to 300) and way too predictable. it does have some nice concepts, but the story is very bleh. and even if you want to go deep in it and from a philosophical point of view and all, it has already been made a dozen of times.

Ayman

Very true, I didn't find the story much unique nor very creative, the only good thing about is the 3D and the visual effects. I still think LOTR trilogy is the greatest movie I have every seen so far. My overall impression about avatar: not bad.

Aj_BlaZ

no need to watch it in dunes waiting for 3d tv to arrive in lebanon :)

battikh

^^ so you prefer to wait months and watch it on a small screen just to save 10$?
avatar should be watched in 3D in a movie theater, or not watched at all, coz avatar is all about the experience, and not about the story.

GN90

AVATAR is about the groundbreaking effects and graphics 3D theatres is the only place to watch it.
i rarely like movies for their effects cause i usually focus on the story, the script, but this one the effects where mind blowing

euryale

i did not like the movie at all, childish movie i dunno how this cartoon akhad hal add dajje, anyways i hate it mostly because they killed the pilot girl(michelle rodriguez), why does she always has to die? they always kill her in lost, fast furious, resident evil.. poor girl

Flakk

Avatar's story sucks and i wasint really impressed with the disney style story.. i was only amazed by the graphics and the special effects.

arithma

The story is indeed very flat with almost no depth. It's good for your popcorn :)
However, here are some of the things I noticed about the movie:

- The gaia thing going on with the indigenous tribe with the tree and them storing their memories there. It looks a lot like the internet.

- The living in the trees: it really got to me, and I want to genetically engineer trees so that they get habitable soon [not happening in reality].

- That bad corporate guy. He felt something at one point in the movie when there were kids involved.

- The whole avatar concept looks a lot like it was taken from a gaming idea. [WarCraft or some soft of something similar]

- The army thing. How they got them all hotted up and so on. And the public politics that can manipulate the masses.

So yeah, there isn't anything profoundly deep in the movie [I don't know if there should be] but it does touch on a lot of ideas, doesn't bore easily during the screening and it makes up for depth using a multi-facet nature.

kareem_nasser

Well actually it is not the story which i liked because it is somehow old but there are some few spices which James added.
After all why did it get 2billion$ in gross revenue beating Titanic's record.

Aj_BlaZ

@battikh who told you i am going to watch it anyway ;) ,no need to save any money ticket 10$ or 3d tv 4000$ :s

GN90

kareem_nasser wroteWell actually it is not the story which i liked because it is somehow old but there are some few spices which James added.
After all why did it get 2billion$ in gross revenue beating Titanic's record.

well it is still far form breaking Titanic cause Titanic sold 130 Million tickets but Avatar about 80 Million and the price difference , 3D, 3D MAX, made that difference.
and if you want to take the adjusted revenue list, Titanic comes at #6 and Avatar at #21

battikh

the real question is how did titanic get 2 billion $ in the 1st place?
cheesy story, horrible acting, ...

GN90

the answer is simple : Marketing.
i think the best movies are the limited movies

rolf

Technical remarks:
- 3d looks good from close ( we were forced to sit in front, but turns out it is great because the screen area is maximized as opposed to non-3d areas and sometimes it feels like you are inside the movie )
- Glasses are heavy, bulky, hard and dark. I am tempted to remove them from time to time
- You can disable the 3d glasses by putting your finger on a sensor between the 2 eyes (try it)
- I was told you'd have to pay $90 if you loose the glasses. Lame.
- Avatar is not the best 3d ever, although its good, and they're getting better at using 3d in movies. Watch for the undersea documentary (forgot the name), that should be mind blowing 3d.

Flakk wroteAvatar's story sucks and i wasint really impressed with the disney style story.. i was only amazed by the graphics and the special effects.

Agreed, although there are nice twists in it, (like "unattaineum", the mineral that they were trying to get to). It's good to see they didnt take themselves too seriously, considering the budget. You'd expect such winks and "jeux de mots" only in cheap movies, normally.
It also felt a bit like a video game, with the boss fight at the end.

kareem_nasser wroteWell actually it is not the story which i liked because it is somehow old but there are some few spices which James added.

I guess that's what I was saying earlier.

kareem_nasser

Check these sites guys:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/AVATR.php
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

and don't forget Metacritics score.......how do you lebanese think.... LOL :P

kareem_nasser

and just to mention it: in the cinema where i watched 20% where sleeping 40% where laughing (didn't understand anything of the movie i hope they even now what 3D means) and 20% with their love just talking and stuff you know.....20% or maybe less understood it and got the main idea and philosophy.

and Please there are good things outside Lebanon. I am not a fan but i want you to appreciate others that's how we see other countries succeed and we keep failing because we are a vacuum sucking never thinking or creating.

battikh

kareem_nasser wroteand Please there are good things outside Lebanon. I am not a fan but i want you to appreciate others that's how we see other countries succeed and we keep failing because we are a vacuum sucking never thinking or creating.

what does this have to do with appreciating other countries' work? if some weren't impressed by the story of avatar it doesn't mean we don't appreciate international cinema. that's absurd, specially that it's mainly the only thing we watch.
yes, the graphics, effects and 3D were mind blowing, but the story was not creative, had been seen in a dozen of other movies before, i felt like rewatching 300 during his last speech when uniting all the tribes to fight, for a moment i would have sworn that he said "tonight we dine in hell". the ending was too predictable, the never dying arnold schwarzenegger-like idiot in his robot thing was just too much, .... story-wise, it was very bad, but still, for the effects, watching it was worth every penny.

kareem_nasser

Exactly that's my point even though i still liked the philosophy behind the story as a new universe.

rolf

kareem_nasser wroteand just to mention it: in the cinema where i watched 20% where sleeping 40% where laughing (didn't understand anything of the movie i hope they even now what 3D means) and 20% with their love just talking and stuff you know.....20% or maybe less understood it and got the main idea and philosophy.

Same thing for me. It sometimes sounded like a busy restaurant. And sometimes you'd hear voices, screams or soinds and wonder whether it was from the movies or the room, and the kid next to me answered the phone, and was generally pretty annoying.