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12:41 PM
11:30 AM
Personally, im a big fan of Cameron and I can kind of forgive True Lies (if only for the OTT wing walking scene). This will be fantastic, mesmerising and very enjoyable. Will I like it? Yes!! Will I care what the nay-sayers say? Balls no! Do I care enough to go mental and scream in forums about how much this will fail BEFORE ive even see the film.? Ahem* lets not be silly..of course not!
Lets give this film a chance.
11:58 AM
12:16 PM
And Jamie Lee-Curtis is bloody hot HOT!!!
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11:01 AM
Of course Avatar isn't wowing us the way it is supposed to right now, we are watching clips of it on a computer screen -- a 2-D computer screen.
Who cares if the story is extremely derivative. We are in the science fiction business people. Derivatives are our bread and butter.
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10:43 AM
At the same time, maybe they should have had Shatner record the scene so they could have cut down on some of the grousing from his corner. At least he could say that yes they filmed a scene with him but cut it for time.
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08:39 AM
I love the arguments I keep hearing on this site and others about this movie.
This movie will make bank. The question is: will it make New Moon money?
Oh, and all of you who are complaining about writing, and went to go see any Transformers movie can eat a big steaming bowl of STFU.
08:55 AM
09:02 AM
I'm not expecting Shakespeare either. I'm expecting a lot of nice visuals and a moderate plot.
09:23 AM
- Optimus Prime
- Bay'splosions
- Giant Robots fighting
The story? Naw, not at all. But it didn't get in the way of my enjoyment of any of the three things mentioned (Ok, Megan Fox did, I don't need fanservice when two giant robots are gonna duke it out!).
What keeps me from wanting to see Avatar? Simple, it's Dances with Smurfs. It nags at me. I don't want to pay to see these scenes:
- where Joe main character(MC) starts to identify with the Smurfs.
- where some Military Brass starts yelling at Joe MC and tells him "It's us or them"
- where Joe MC tries to bring the Smurfs and humans together for a peace and it goes horribly wrong and the humans kill more smurfs, and wounds and possibly kills smurfette
- the inevitable final battle where Joe MC fights for smurfette.
Even if only half of those scenes appear in a mangled form, a voice in the back of my head will taunt me with "Dances with Smurfs, It's Dances with Smurfs, you paid to see Dances with Smurfs." endlessly while watching it.
Visuals can't make up that. All the great visuals didn't save Titantic from being an utter bore.
It doesn't matter how good the writing of the story is as long as it doesn't keep me from enjoying the rest of the movie.
And I hated the Smurfs.
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08:24 AM
I pretty sure that it wasn't a nuclear disaster in the book, but I'm still going to spend a lot of the movie worrying about their exposure to radiations (No! Don't drink that! It's +10 rads/sec). I blame Fallout 3.
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08:23 AM
I never read the book, by the way. Should I? Should I read the book then see the movie, or vice versa?
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08:17 AM
FEDERATION COMMANDANT
Who are you?
SHATNER
It's me! Kirk. Give me the keys. We're going to the second to star to the right and straight on till morning.
FEDERATION COMMANDANT
You're not Kirk.
Shatner headbutts Tyler Perry.
SHATNER
I don't believe in the no-win scenario.
We cut to Chris Pine gagged and bound in a Starfleet bathroom making muffled noises. We again hear SABOTAGE and cut to the Enterprise warping away.
08:26 AM
SPOCK PRIME
Close enough.
09:22 AM
SPOCK PRIME turns around, and we see his face. He has a goatee.
SPOCK PRIME laughs. Fade out.
10:11 AM
Seriously, someone get these guys on the writing crew for the sequel.
08:17 AM
And as he was running with his tail flapping I kept wondering why he didn't tuck that tail in a bit so it wasn't like the cats in every cartoon that grab the mice by their tails. It also made me wonder how they get their pants on in the morning. I had a hard enough time getting my kids into clothes when they were babies. Can you imagine having to reach back and deal with an unmanageable tail every morning? So glad I'm not blue.
08:57 AM
I can see interest in the tail, though. You could grab things while both your hands are already occupied. It's just another appendage - if it's prehensile.
Or maybe I'm just mistaking the Na'avi with Nighstalker from X-Men.
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10:10 AM
Besides, it's probably like using your non-dominant hand. It doesn't feel right, you don't do it naturally and it takes more attention to what you're doing.
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