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[Kazuki]

everyone knows this.

Uh, no? Yes, Graham. We are idiots for not knowing knife terminology. When the day comes that such knowledge could have saved my life, I will let you know.

[Graham]

That last knife remark was a joke kaz...

[iDante]

I just saw it in 3D, was pretty cool.

I was horribly disappointed by the ending. The whole point of Dances with Wolves was that the white people killed the Indians and took over their world. They decided that they could ruin that and make it a happy and unrealistic film at the same time.

Pretty flowery things though.

[Hair|Trigger]

..spoiler much?

This is why I never read threads before I see the movie >_>

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

..spoiler much?

This is why I never read threads before I see the movie >_>

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it common knowledge that the main character defects, and doesn't that make the smurfs the good guys, and isn't it generally assumed that good guys always win in the end? Something's not really a spoiler if it's just confirming what people already assume.

[Hair|Trigger]

If you think like that you might as well not watch any movies because they all end the same way. 

Even if you know exactly what's going to happen it still sucks when someone spoils it.

[a-4-year-old]

I don't like spoilers either, which is why I waited until I saw the movie to read this thread.

[iDante]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it common knowledge that the main character defects, and doesn't that make the smurfs the good guys, and isn't it generally assumed that good guys always win in the end? Something's not really a spoiler if it's just confirming what people already assume.

I expected the humans to win.
Seriously, wouldn't that have been a way better movie? All the blue dudes dead or put into "reserves" and their whole beautiful nature dying. Would have sure made me hate humans more than I already do. Instead they just NEED their crowning moment of awesome or the film wouldn't attract little kids.

..spoiler much?

This is why I never read threads before I see the movie >_>

The thread is 3 pages long about a movie, the ending is going to be in there.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

If you think like that you might as well not watch any movies because they all end the same way.

Not true! Avatar was worth watching because the environment was so beautifully designed and rendered, and that factored into a great setting for the story (as cliched as its ending may have been).  Also, movies remain worth watching because of the twists in them and the unexpected parts.  In "The Dark Knight," for example, would you have predicted that his girlfriend would be dead by the end? I sure wouldn't have, and it's those little deviations from the norm that keep movies entertaining, even if they ultimately follow the same pattern.

[jrgp]

Just watched it with my dad at the AMC Imax theater at Universal, Orlando. Awesome film, and it did a great job of reminding me how much I hate dealing with military people.

[Graham]

Just watched it with my dad at the AMC Imax theater at Universal, Orlando. Awesome film, and it did a great job of reminding me how much I hate dealing with military people.

Protip: Movie military and REAL military are complete opposites.
Oh and PS those are mercs in the movie...

I just got back from jacksonville imax for a 3d viewing. It was my first 3d movie so I was giddy like a little girl the entire time. I loved it, it was like watching the movie for the first time again.

[numgun]

Its not the military people, its the corporate people.
And as Graham also mentioned, they're mercs, they do what they are told to do, by corporate people.

The real evil figure in this whole movie is the guy who thought it be okay to nuke the alien civilization in order to grab some precious resource. Thank god the tree huggers (aka human hippies/nice scientists) made his plan a bit more subtle.

[Twistkill]

I'm not sure if they got all $500 million worth but it certainly looked stunning. And it was a lot of movie for your money. It didn't have an original story and there are some old stereotypical characters but a unique concept in that it was the future meets the archaic. The way they controlled their counterparts was similar to The Matrix but less focused on the philosophy of the mind/body problem (dying while you're plugged in).

[Hair|Trigger]

a unique concept in that it was the future meets the archaic.

I didn't think so, civilized beings exterminating primitive beings isn't that original. 

The only thing that I think is original about Avatar is the whole 'Avatar body' thing, unless there's an early 90s movie with the same device then I suppose that's one thing the movie pioneered.. even then I dunno if it could have leaked into the film industry.  Surrogates (released September) is actually based on the same machine, it's quite strange for such a (probably) ripped-off movie to be released alongside the movie that it's ripping off. 

[jrgp]

a unique concept in that it was the future meets the archaic.

I didn't think so, civilized beings exterminating primitive beings isn't that original. 

The only thing that I think is original about Avatar is the whole 'Avatar body' thing, unless there's an early 90s movie with the same device then I suppose that's one thing the movie pioneered.. even then I dunno if it could have leaked into the film industry.  Surrogates (released September) is actually based on the same machine, it's quite strange for such a (probably) ripped-off movie to be released alongside the movie that it's ripping off. 

You're ignoring the fact that cameron spent like 6 years designing and planning avatar, way before surrogates came out.

[Hair|Trigger]

I'm not ignoring that, I said unless it was already done before the early 90s (when the Avatar idea was conceived) then Avatar is the pioneer.