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arts NAKED reviews » Avatar — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:44:04 +0000

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By: alan

alan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:46:16 +0000

Wow, it took this long for that typo to be noticed. I’m going to leave it there in honour of the little typo that could. It’s a bollocks word anyway, so I feel no compulsion to spell it right.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:11:42 +0000

Don’t want to be the spelling police, but, what the hell, may as well be, it always goes down well…
Unobtainium – with an I, after, you know, unobtainable, not tan-able.
Whatever it was, yeah it was bad. In fact it had one or ten too many Ja Ja Binks moments that made me want to find and slap the producers to pay for my cringes.

By: alan

alan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:23:36 +0000

I dunno – that Grace/Sigourney avatar nose kinda creeped me out.

By: hank

hank — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:10:06 +0000

I think Cameron took a leaf out of Lucas’ naming guide (and I’m speaking of the original Star Wars films there). “Luke Skywalker”? “Han Solo”? And for chris’sake, Tataouine (“Tatooine”) is a town in Tunisia where they shot Ep IV – anyway it’s fairy tale stuff, which is what Avatar was. I’ll put my 2c on the “it was mind-blowingly spectacular” camp, and leave the plot for the kids to enjoy.

And Grace/Sigourney is hot, can’t let that lovely bone structure go to waste!

By: alan

alan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:25:56 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts, Ellie. And you’re right – Cameron does have a problem with names!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:57:56 +0000

Just came home from the movie. Breathtaking, to say the least. This included all that I LOVE about going to the movies:
-immersion into a new world/culture
-an agonizingly amazing fight scene between flying creatures and helicopters
-plot-driven
-thoughts that I would never have had it I’d sat at home with my books (example: the feeling that I was actually flying, shot at, etc.)

I liked how short all the scenes were. Smart editing.
I liked how native, different, almost . . . feral the The People were. The yell the girl made as she was flying was awesome.

James Cameron sucks at names. Not just Unobtanium, either. Spirit Tree. The People. Dire Horse. Hammerhead Titanothere. Mountain Banshee. The Hallelujah Mountains. I had to roll my eyes at almost every new name he thought of, so boring. Even Pandora is a cop-out. He definitely needed help with the names.
There wasn’t anything surprising in this movie except for the gorgeous new world. But that was enough for me.
It was fun to read what everyone thought about it.

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2009 keyword searches – The Word – According To Me — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:25:44 +0000

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By: alan

alan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:25:15 +0000

Wilz – I don’t know how many awards it will get other than special effects awards.

skynet – the Ferngully comparison is being drawn a lot.

Peter – Avatar 2, The Nuking Of Pandora.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:13:41 +0000

I went with my 11 year old son to see this, and it was the first film ever he hasn’t spoken, so it was really good from that point.
Yes it was cheesy, yes it was Americans in space again, but it was visually amazing, and good fun.
Not a lot of humour, but it wa good entertainment.
And it left it so wide open for Avatar 2 – the search for hardtogetholdofium.