Tomwhisky

Full seats speak the loudest Can't say it will be my cup of tea though and I do like si-fi.
If they discover parafin on this planet will it be called ......... Esso Blue (sorreeee)

I love old British films! None better.

Tomwhisky

Well, I had a wet week-end in Manchester at a certain Travel Inn job (no soap to save money they said!) so trotted to the maga complex multi-screen next door to view this Avator. What a depressing complex like a nuclear bomb shelter plus a brand new idea. No more ticket office! No, one must queue at the central sales 'island' to purchase a ticket - select the shortest 'Q'. I was situated being a 6ft 6 inch muscle job plus girl (she looking miserable - perhaps the first date?) He is purchasing half of the 'island' with one huge bucket of popcorn. Girlfriend looks aghast and says 'surely too much'? or something he replies in classic style 'but it is a three hour film
Fitted with speks. Must say I can not see the 3D idea being anymore successful that the one in my youth. Agree that for a stage play type film (Importance of Being Ernest or, Dial M For Murder) it would be very good but the mayhem in the film made me rather queasy so took them off.
We all know the plot (what I could understand of it) but clearly Cameron has borrowed from a few other films as he did with Titanic. In this case
'The Emereld Forest'
The reverse of 'Independence Day' (the Americans are the vile aliens)
so it is Oblivion Day
'Soldier Blue' - plus all the old western plots where the good soldier/agent is sent to meet with the indians who then turns native to the disgust of the Cavalry and the classic old line from the tribe;
'Whiteman Speak with Forked Tongue! (etc)
I could only count about 400 natives on this vast planet so could not quite understand the problem or the need for the hardwhere. No where to live that I could see, no homes harvest or livestock. Not a planet I would want to stay long upon even with blue naturists.

I love old British films! None better.

GoggleboxUK

Avatar is the UK's Biggest Film Ever

It has taken eight weeks, but finally Avatar has done it: become the biggest film ever at the UK box-office. The weekend saw James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster overtake Mamma Mia! (lifetime total of £69.17m), with takings to date of £71.94m. When you consider that after eight weekends Mamma Mia! had grossed £54.54m (79%) of its eventual total, there is presumably still plenty of life in Avatar yet.

"There's always something"

Tomwhisky

It may only prove that Barnum was right I still say logic must apply otherwise it is insanity.

I love old British films! None better.

will.15

'Avatar': Why do conservatives hate the most popular movie in years? | The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times

Tomwhisky

Personally I do not accept this 'left' right' argument at all. For me the film clearly shows the Americans (one must assume this to be the people invading the planet)
to be far right of centre - I would say Nazi even showing no respect for any other culture and complying totally of the white race as far as I could see (granted I did not have the glasses on all the time). I could not see any ethnic races - might be wrong?
I just say that logic should follow not right or left but right and wrong!

I love old British films! None better.

Amethyst_Isle

Then go and see the film in 3D and appreciate it for more than just the special effects.

The reason I liked this movie in 3D was it did not indulge too much in the 3D technology to show everything in 3D as some sort of toything 'when everything is thrown at you kinda thing' a pure cinema experience imo.

There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple.

Bernardo

My daughter is an avid film - goer, tonight I am minding babe-ee as they are off to see Avatar for the second time. H.M. is fussy so it must have someting.

Amethyst_Isle

To see a film twice must mean it was good

There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple.

Tomwhisky

Personally it was not my taste - not to say 'it wasn't good', the effects were brillient of course. My point was that a script should follow logic in sense otherwise we enter 'comedy' that is 'illogical' like the Marx Brothers. But nothing funny about Avatar. My point was that the script appeared to be 'anti-American' and this point was made by writer Peter Hitchens so I had to confirm. I thought it was too. I do think Hollywood should market the best of American culture - as it used to do but then I am picky. Why did the film go out of its way to be nasty to the natives? I did not understand the 'transformation' process at all.

I love old British films! None better.

Bernardo

Correction on my previous post. When the family trooped in to collect their children, all wearing sunglasses incidentally, after seeing the film, there was an opinion that it was good but overlong and cinema buff HM agreed as she found herself checking her watch during the performance.

batman

I'd agree with that.

"Aha Mr Aubergine ... that's where you're wrong!"

Azanti

I thought it was superb, groundbreaking, visually amazing, even down to artifically lighting the enviroment on the screen, that of course doesn't actually exist.

I think to dismiss it out of hand because its sci-fi or James Cameron is woefully poor.
Anyone waiting for video, I would implore you not to make that mistake and see it on the big screen, the biggest you can find.

On the subject of the film being a re-working if something else. The theme of the destruction of the enviroment / race / ancient people is nothing knew, it wasn't new in Dances With Wolves and has explored in many other movies, long before then (The Emerald Forest, Soldier Blue and many more) and this the case with many films, so, big wow, nothing new there.

I actually think this movie is more likely to get younger generations interested in the enviroment than anything that has come before it.

Azanti

I thought it was superb, groundbreaking, visually amazing, even down to artifically lighting the enviroment on the screen, that of course doesn't actually exist.

I think to dismiss it out of hand because its sci-fi or James Cameron is woefully poor.
Anyone waiting for video, I would implore you not to make that mistake and see it on the big screen, the biggest you can find.

On the subject of the film being a re-working if something else. The theme of the destruction of the enviroment / race / ancient people is nothing knew, it wasn't new in Dances With Wolves and has explored in many other movies, long before then (The Emerald Forest, Soldier Blue and many more) and this the case with many films, so, big wow, nothing new there.

I actually think this movie is more likely to get younger generations interested in the enviroment than anything that has come before it.