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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    10:32 AM

    In reply to 5 Designers Reveal Secrets Of James Cameron's Avatar
    I bought tickets for the 7pm show on the 18th. Hopefully the acting and storyline don't suck. I'm excited.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    10:12 AM

    In reply to 5 Designers Reveal Secrets Of James Cameron's Avatar
    Even if the movie sucks, it looks like it will be visually stunning.
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    Nathan Obbards was starred Nathan Obbards was unstarred
    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    10:04 AM

    In reply to 5 Designers Reveal Secrets Of James Cameron's Avatar
    The concepts of crossing F1 racers with cetacean lines that were "too wild" to make the final cut would be very interesting to see.
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    09:55 AM

    In reply to 5 Designers Reveal Secrets Of James Cameron's Avatar
    No idea if the movie will be good, but I love great concept art, and it's got it in spades.
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    10:03 AM

    @Belabras: That's just what I was thinking. I'm really fascinated by the human system designs...those helicopters even have vine/wire cutters on the front of the rotor housings, which is a common feature today but one that most people never even see.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    09:54 AM

    In reply to 5 Designers Reveal Secrets Of James Cameron's Avatar
    I had a thought (scary, I know):

    I think Phantom Menace scarred us all. The level of hype for that movie was too much, and no movie could have lived up to it. Of course, the movie itself turned out even worse than that, and so now we're all afraid of the same thing here, thus the huge backlash on this movie. If we keep our expectations lowered, then if the movie sucks, we can say "told you so", and if the movie is good, we'll be pleasantly surprised.

    I just want a good sci-fi action flick, no more, no less, from a man who I have every confidence, based on past performances, that he knows how to provide that. I don't care if it "changes the way we view movies forever." So, I'm still looking forward to this and have my tickets already bought.
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    Image of Jonny_eh Jonny_eh
    10:01 AM

    @TemporalSword: The budget combined with the director's pedigree and hiatus have all conspired to hype up the film. How can someone not be excited by a new freaking James Cameron sci-fi film?! It's hard to contain such hype.
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    salthegeek promoted this comment Jonny_eh was starred Jonny_eh was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09:42 AM

    In reply to 5 Designers Reveal Secrets Of James Cameron's Avatar
    Though I have my doubts about the movie in total, I love the designs, especially the creature aspect. The mechs in this flick make the APU's of The Matrix Revolutions look like total trash heaps.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    10:00 AM

    @Kaiser-Machead: "Trash heaps" is perfect. I had not even committed their name to memory.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    It really confused me and a coworker when we were talking about this film because we each saw a different ending with out knowing there were different endings. Confusion quickly destroyed thanks to IMDB.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    "Katie has vanished" Not in my ending she did'nt.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    i have to disagree! even before i left the movie theater my mind was racing through a hundred different questions! where am i going to get lunch? how long was i asleep in there? why did i do what i did to myself... or did my girlfriend do it? what about the obnoxiously noisey people behind me - often heard by never seen? could they be headed to the same lunch spot as i? one part tex one part mex?
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    12/09/09

    @tetracycloide: woman behind me said uh-oh everytime they went to bed
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    We emailed Lobdell asking why he thought the story must go on...

    uhhh... money?
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    Uh... this is not the ending that I saw. :-\
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    Image of justin0025 justin0025
    12/09/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Yeah there are two different endings, there is the ending where Katie gets shot, and another ending which was the Steven Spielberg ending.
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    ZaxxonQ.com promoted this comment Charlie Jane Anders approved this comment justin0025 was starred justin0025 was unstarred
    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    12/09/09

    @justin0025: I did not see her get shot nor did I see her get turned into this beastie that they are going with. My ending was still different. I don't wanna spoil it.
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    Edited by ZaxxonQ.com at 12/09/09 12:35 PM ZaxxonQ.com was starred ZaxxonQ.com was unstarred
    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    12/09/09

    @justin0025: What's the Spielberg ending?
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/09/09

    @aubreyf: She kills the boyfriend then stares at the camera then a message shows up saying the cops showed up, he was dead and she is still missing.
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    LittleDragon was starred LittleDragon was unstarred
    Image of korybing korybing
    12/09/09

    @justin0025: There are multiple endings? Wow I guess I'm late to the party on this one. The ending I saw was the one in the first image in the gallery up there.
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    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    12/09/09

    @LittleDragon: That's the one I saw. One of two main characters is murdered by the other main character. How does that relate to Spielberg?
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/09/09

    @aubreyf: The directors version has the girl kill the boy then the cops kill the girl. The Spielberg version has the girl kill the boy then the girl disappears.
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    LittleDragon was starred LittleDragon was unstarred
    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    12/09/09

    @LittleDragon: There is nothing Spielberg about that ending.
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    aubreyf was starred aubreyf was unstarred
    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/09/09

    @aubreyf: I think its called the Spielberg ending because he suggested it or something. If you look it up on IMDB, it explains it.
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    LittleDragon was starred LittleDragon was unstarred
    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    12:19 AM

    @LittleDragon: Ah, I see. I thought it was a dig as Spielberg relating to it being a "happy" ending or something and it didn't make sense to me. I get it now!
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    aubreyf was starred aubreyf was unstarred
    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    Ugh. The idea that the demon has "bigger fish to fry" robs the story of all its good drama. Just because it is a demon doesn't mean it has grandiose machinations. Possessive demon with caveman mentality and antics latches on to human woman like a caveman would. Mine, mine, you no have her.

    By making this demon into an Errol Flynn villain you have demonstrated to the world that you either: (a) can't let other people succeed without trying to participate yourself and/or (b) you missed the point entirely.

    Either way, good luck Scott. I hope you don't fail nearly as hard as I think you will.
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    Image of Husher Husher
    12/09/09

    @Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies:
    If he fails wouldn't that end with what was a rich in flavor film to a bland tasteless peace of crap?
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    Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies promoted this comment Husher was starred Husher was unstarred
    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    12/09/09

    @Husher: You think so? AVP 1 & 2 both sucked sucked sucked and they had no effect on the awesomeness that is the Alien franchise.

    And look at Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. They didn't affect much more than their own reputation.

    If this project fails, it will go down alone. Correction, it will go down along with the staff that thought it up.
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    Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was starred Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was unstarred
    Image of karelj karelj
    12/09/09

    @Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies:
    "AVP 1 & 2 both sucked sucked sucked and they had no effect on the awesomeness that is the Alien franchise." - Yeah it did... you can pretty much rule out anything else in either series being made for some time now

    "And look at Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. They didn't affect much more than their own reputation." - Wrong! Because of those two horrid movies, it took a lot of time and quite the effort to get WB to even contemplate the idea of another Batman movie.

    Studios don't consider the fact that the movies they released were garbage. They just see that it tanked and conclude that no one is interested in the subject matter.
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    Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies approved this comment karelj was starred karelj was unstarred
    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    12/09/09

    @karelj: Five years back, I would totally agree, but forums like these play an infinitely larger role in the development of movies these days. What we say here does have an effect, albeit small, and accordingly, companies gauge more than just the profits.
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    Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was starred Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies was unstarred
    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    Why must the story go on? I'm a comic book writer, the stories can't... stop... They... never... end!
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    12/09/09

    @♠ Final ♠: Oh man. Genuine laughter.
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    Image of Zyg Zyg
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    I loved that movie but learning what happens next destroys the whole point of thriller paranormal horror.
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment Zyg was starred Zyg was unstarred
    Image of AngriestGeek AngriestGeek
    12/09/09

    In reply to Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone
    Hardly. I've wondered "what happens next" in movies where the monster "wins." After all, people have friends and family who aren't just going to let it slide. There are also these people with guns and badges who get a bit obsessed with unsolved deaths.
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    Edited by AngriestGeek at 12/09/09 11:36 AM AngriestGeek was starred AngriestGeek was unstarred
    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    06:38 AM

    @AngriestGeek: I agree. The Devils Rejects is a good example of this.
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