Avatar: moo-vee

[Grayeagle]

wow

Just .. plain .. wow

great story, digital 3d works very well at generating suspension of disbelief and immersion..

..you really are there witnessing the story.

This is the best tour-de-force of what CG can add to telling a great story ..it took my breath away.

It plugs into a whole series of emotions/dreams that people have.

I am blown away by it.

-GE (seen it twice so far .. goin again with the granddaughters tomorrow)

[Clone155]

Is it better in I-max than regular?

[vorticon]

Is it better in I-max than regular?

you're being bent over by the theater anyway. may as well go all out.

[mipoikel]

Just saw it, I agree greyeagle. 

[BlueJ1]

I just saw it in 3d. I was impressed.

[Vulcan]

I do the odd bit of work on the systems involved. Weta digital have a server farm of 4300 servers (don't ask me how many CPU/cores, they're all multi), and the post production and other related companies are connected via a 120Gb fibre ring. It's the biggest server farm in the southern hemisphere

[Reschke]

Just not really interested in going to see it and neither are my two boys. So when its out on DVD in a few weeks we will rent it at the Redbox for $1. Then they will get my money.

[zoozoo]

just saw it. great movie must see

[Ack-Ack]

Too bad the game sucks monkey gonads.


ack-ack

[Plawranc]

It made my buy on release list along with Valkyrie and IGB. Just amazing.

Only disturbing thing was I was actually on the Human side. But I ended up laughing at how stupid we are. It had a story so engaging I was glued to the screen. And the CGI was just AMAZING.

 

[mipoikel]

Just not really interested in going to see it and neither are my two boys. So when its out on DVD in a few weeks we will rent it at the Redbox for $1. Then they will get my money.

If you watch it in 2D, dont bother. Amazing 3D is the point.

[CptTrips]

It was good.
It wasn't high art, but it was what it was, and it was well made.
AS far as the storyline...well it seemed to me like "(The Matrix + Dances with Wolves) in Space".  Thats not meant as a knock, just something I noticed.
The 3D was done well.  By that I mean it just fit seamlessly into the movie.  They didn't try stupid, gratuitous 3d tricks to amaze you. 
It was great eye candy, with a story good enough not to ruin it.  I'd recomend seeing it, on the big screen, and in 3d.
Seems to me though that i would have been a lot smarter to have released this last summer or waited until next summer.

$0,02,
Wab

[Yossarian]

Just not really interested in going to see it and neither are my two boys. So when its out on DVD in a few weeks we will rent it at the Redbox for $1. Then they will get my money.

Seriously, just go see it for the visuals.  It is stunning.

[Sabre]

It's unfortunate that all that spectacular CGI was wasted on a predictable and overdone story line.  It is "Pocahantas" rolled up with "The Last Rain Forest".  Another typical hollywood bash of capitalism and the military.  Entertaining? Certainly, and worth seeing on the big screen for its visual impact.  However, not I think destined to be a classic.  There's just nothing new here as far as storyline goes, not even a fresh take on old themes. 

[Lusche]

It's unfortunate that all that spectacular CGI was wasted on a predictable and overdone story line.  It is "Pocahantas" rolled up with "The Last Rain Forest". 

+1

Just coming back from the cinema. If I were 15 again, I would have loved it.
But now, after getting used to the visual effects, my wife and me grew increasingly bored by the simple storyline, the shallow clichee characters and the predictable dialogs. We left during the intermission (That's rare for me, the last movie I couldn't bear to watch until the end was Zoolander  )