I KNEW IT! (Avatar Movie Related)

[i.Sarita.com]

I'm not saying it sucks before I see it...BUT three different theatres full of people who saw the trailer for this laughed HARD. THREE different full theatres cracking on a movie based on the trailer. That can't be a good sign.

[Solid Stryk-Dizzle]

I remember one guy in my theater saying "These X-men origin movies have gone too far." during one of the trailers.

[Lick Ness Monster]

Nov 29, 2009 4:18:02 GMT -5 Rorschach said:

Nov 29, 2009 4:16:33 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

Star Trek had backlash:

Not only that, but a few people were bold enough to go in the official Star Trek thread, and say it wasn't absolutely brillaint. They were summarily flamed, trolled, and bashed into oblivion and chased out of the thread.

Don't believe me? Ask TR.

Here I was all ready to click on that video and feel validated in my thoughts that this movie isn't a half-step below Citizen Kane, and here it's just another fluff piece (albeit slightly funny) that goes on and on about how it's this absolutely marvelous cinematic offering personally touched by the hand of God that seemingly everyone else besides me thinks it is.

[Bobafett]

I'm sorry but I will NEVER watch the Star Trek film because Simon Pegg should NEVER have been Scotty, and the messing with the timeline crap and it was a shameless attempt to cash in on the "reimaginings" that are happening..just like Enterprise was trying to cash in on the prequel thing years back

as for Avatar, its different, its interesting, but because its a big budget effects laden movie people are gonna hate on it to seem trendy at least give it some credit for origionality and actually watch it

[AriadosMan]

So, let's see...I argued that every major film on here has a backlash but Star Trek, and I find out even that one had one.
Yeah, this totally makes me want to take the WC company line on Avatar.

[Red Impact]

The point is, 99.9 percent of people aren’t going to meet any of the movie actresses they fall in love with, so it doesn’t matter if it’s Neytiri or Michelle Pfeiffer.

And you know what? He's absolutely right.

[AriadosMan]

Nov 29, 2009 12:49:43 GMT -5 Red Impact said:

The point is, 99.9 percent of people aren’t going to meet any of the movie actresses they fall in love with, so it doesn’t matter if it’s Neytiri or Michelle Pfeiffer.

And you know what? He's absolutely right.

And actresses get so much airbrushing in pics that they might as well be CGI anyway these days.

[JaySticLe respects Umaga]

Nov 29, 2009 9:43:44 GMT -5 Lick Ness Monster said:

Nov 29, 2009 4:18:02 GMT -5 Rorschach said:

Not only that, but a few people were bold enough to go in the official Star Trek thread, and say it wasn't absolutely brillaint. They were summarily flamed, trolled, and bashed into oblivion and chased out of the thread.

Don't believe me? Ask TR.

Here I was all ready to click on that video and feel validated in my thoughts that this movie isn't a half-step below Citizen Kane, and here it's just another fluff piece (albeit slightly funny) that goes on and on about how it's this absolutely marvelous cinematic offering personally touched by the hand of God that seemingly everyone else besides me thinks it is.

You know what? I am also in the "Star Trek Isn't The Best Movie Ever" group.

[Milkman Norm]

Here's what I don't understand. Cameron says he wanted her to have breast even though the speicies doesn't need them to feed there young. Um, Jim didn't you create this whole planet? If you want the woman to have boobs, why not give them boobs? It's not like it's based off of anything real.

[Lick Ness Monster]

Nov 29, 2009 2:14:58 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

this is how i feel about the movie:

Same here.

Dances With Smurfs essentially sums it up, doesn't it? ;D

[Dave at the Movies]

Well, it ain't Terminator.

[i.Sarita.com]

Nov 29, 2009 12:01:02 GMT -5 Bobafett said:

as for Avatar, its different, its interesting, but because its a big budget effects laden movie people are gonna hate on it to seem trendy at least give it some credit for origionality and actually watch it

Um....except it looks like Halo.

[Bub (BLM)]

Avatar isn't original at all, and James Cameron ought to be sued for plagarism. This is the plot summary to the 1957 novel "Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson:

Joe is awakened in his den, when a pack of predators is attacking him. Using his great strength, and weapons made from sculpted ice, he kills the animals and, exultant, bays at the moon above him. A vital component shorts out, and "Joe" reverts to being a human, Ed Anglesey, wearing a special headset on a space station orbiting Jupiter. Anglesey furiously repairs the equipment to restore the connection.

It transpires that such equipment failures are happening more and more often. All technical attempts at repair have failed, and instead a psionics expert, Cornelius, is brought to the station to determine if Anglesey himself is the problem.

Anglesey uses a wheelchair and is bad-tempered. He dislikes all his colleagues and is disliked in return. He is allowed to stay on the station only because of his ability to establish a telepathic connection with and thereby control Joe, a creature designed to survive the hostile conditions on the Jovian surface. Cornelius conjectures that something in Anglesey's mind rejects or fears Jupiter, and the resulting feedback keeps destroying the delicate equipment.

Eventually Cornelius is allowed to share a session with Anglesey during an important part of the mission. A set of autonomous female Jovians, similar to Joe but lacking a human controller such as Anglesey, has been launched from the satellite and will soon land on Jupiter. Joe, still controlled by Anglesey, is to be the leader, and father, of a new race that will live on the planet. During this session, Cornelius becomes aware of a third mind – that of Joe himself. Anglesey's mind has been steadily transforming itself into Joe and shrinking in the process. Cornelius was looking at the problem from the wrong end – it was not Anglesey's fear of going to Jupiter and becoming sublimated into Joe's stronger character which was causing the blowouts, but his fear of leaving Jupiter and the freedom Joe's whole and healthy, though non-human, body allows him. Anglesey's existence is poor and constricted compared to Joe's, and the environment has shaped a personality that no longer wants to be human.

Seeing himself from Cornelius's perspective, Joe becomes fully self-aware. He ejects Cornelius from the loop and shuts down what is left of Anglesey.

Cornelius revives on the station next to the hollow shell of Anglesey's body. Far from being dismayed, Cornelius realizes that this is the way of the future. From now on people with diseased bodies and even the aged can be recruited for the Jovian program if they have the necessary talents. Eventually they will leave their bodies behind and become Jovians in the flesh, functioning as the priesthood of the new race.

"Call Me Joe" was eventually put in the Science Fiction hall of fame. Anderson had just one other book that became fairly popular. You know what that book was? 1978's "The Avatar".

James Cameron is ripping off a dead writer, and hoping that because the work is old and obscure enough, no one will notice.

[Ultimo Chocula]

For the record. I'm not bagging on Avatar because it's the cool thing to do, because I'm being overly cynical, or because I'm anti big budget CGI pictures.

I'm bagging on it because it looks TERR-I-BULL!!!

[B.B.M]

If the first thing you though about this film was "Furries", you need some time of the internet.