I watched Avatar
First off, go see it its awesome...
What does it have to do with MI you ask?
well I was watching it and everytime the Pandorans were on screen I couldnt tell the difference between the males and females and it made me think of MI's own Slender 98% naked blue skinned beings. So if you were wondering what the Merfolk looked like when they had legs look no further than Avatar.
What does it have to do with MI you ask?
well I was watching it and everytime the Pandorans were on screen I couldnt tell the difference between the males and females and it made me think of MI's own Slender 98% naked blue skinned beings. So if you were wondering what the Merfolk looked like when they had legs look no further than Avatar.
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I'm kind of incredulous that this film will do for 3D what The Jazz Singer did for sound, what The Wizard of Oz did for three-strip Technicolor, or what Star Wars and ILM did for special effects in the industry. Granted I haven't seen the film yet, but I just don't see Avatar being the next American Classic.
I didn't think of the merpeople at the time, but now that you mention it...
Yeah, it's worth seeing if you're a sci-fi fan. There are some very cool creatures and a lot of luminous plant life in the Pandora jungle which are best experienced at the cinema.
Ew...
What, this one?
Oh right, you mean the one from Avatar. Well you'd better treat her right, because I think she'd be about twice your size and pretty strong!
why is that ew...??? its directed by Guy Ritche (lock stock, snatch) and has Robert Downey jr and beautiful Rachael McAdams
And while I haven't seen any ads (well, trailers) for the Holmes movie, I cannot see how it has brilliant casting. Neither actor looks anything like how Holmes or Watson are described in the stories or even portrayed in Paget's illustrations. I'm not saying it mightn't be a good film, although the explosions line does have me a bit worried, and it can't be worse than Jeremy Brett's show, so who knows?
Better than the usual blockbuster, yes. But not a good James Cameron film at all.
I guess it just wasn't my type of film.
While The Wizard of Oz did not make a huge profit upon release, it did make one. It was very favorably recieved though, it got an Academy Award, and was nominated for others. It's often said that later Technicolor fantasy films of the time had something to do with The Wizard of Oz.
Now, your last point did have some merit, in that the film wasn't a major financial success, and some could say that is all that matters. But the latter makes no sense at all, really. First of all, the point wasn't for all Technicolor, but rather the Three-Strip Technicolor process. The Two-Color process came out in 1917, though that was used in one film by Technicolor themselves and was more or less a demo of the technology that is pretty much lost to time. All the same, we then have Two-Strip Technicolor that had its first film in 1922, and their third process had a film in 1928. If it wasn't for the Great Depression, black and white films would have likely become completely phased out by the early 1930s. Three-Strip Technicolor was first used in a live-action film a few years earlier than Wizard of Oz, but films were using and being filmed exclusively in color processes before Oz came out in 1939. And we're not even considering the history of color film before Technicolor.
And I suppose what I was really driving at, from more than a financial standpoint, was legitimizing the format in terms of "real moviemaking", rather than as an effects gimmick.
(Though I personally love many films in color before 1939, specifically the hand-colored stop-motion short film "Song of the Nightingale"
I suppose I'm jumping on a bandwagon of hype on this one. Looking over my Holmes volume, I suppose I can't find any counter explanations. I'm just glad to see Holmes FIGHTING again, smoking the right pipe, and wearing a pretty faithful costume in a film adaptation. He acts like I'd expect Holmes to mostly, sans the drug habit, sadly. And I trust Robert Downey Jr. to be able to ACT as Holmes, and not as the somewhat inaccurate Holmes caricature we get in most contemporary Sherlock media.
i think Robert Downey jr will be awesome for the role, he's a great actor...check the IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4059794944/tt0988045
although he doesnt have the iconic hat that you see sherlock holmes usual wear, i guessing its a young version of Sherlock holmes, but i cant wait to see it...do check out the trailer
Also, I don't think the point of Sherlock Holmes (the movie) is to be accurate or faithful to the books (vene though it might). It's more about Robert Downey Jr being awesome, and Jude Law providing some bromance.
And as regards Holmes and the deerstalker, he was only shown wearing it once while riding a train to a case in the country where his dressing as a hunter or gentleman fisherman would make sense. I think Basil Rathbone popularized the image of Holmes in the deerstalker more than anything. He's the one that really created the current "popular" notion of Holmes. Ironically I don't like his Holmes, which is strange, because he was of Scottish descent, resembled Paget's illustrations and was an Olympic quality fencer. He should have been perfect.
Also, I'll defer to you on Holmes, considering you seem to know what you're talking about more than I do.
Second off, Rather Dashing according to the imdb the initial box office gross was $3,017,000, so it looks like you're right after all, it did make a profit of something like $300,000.
Third off, I'm not actually a Holmes expert, I've just read all the stories and have a near photographic memory. And I'm a fan of Basil Rathbone. I'm sorry to say I've never actually read any of Doyle's other work. It's kind of hard to find.
And to anyone that hasn't seen it: the plot's the same as Fern Gully/a million others but it's really pretty (esp in 3D) and worth a watch.
Great movie for the action and special effects, but like meander said, it's got a tree-hugger environmentalist agenda. It also takes a few jabs at the war in Iraq.
Wow, they are actually incredibly similair!
Don't know about the Na'vi / Vacaylians comparison - the Na'vi were all definitely either male or female to me, whereas the Vacaylians are completely indeterminate.
The movie is visually stunning though. It's such a beautifully rendered world, it feels like you could just dive in and start exploring. The first
And if at all possible, see it in 3D so you can look totally dorky cool.
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The movie is boring. But pretty. So it's pretty boring.
Looks like someone watched the bum today
I liked it, not so much for the unoriginal story, but for the pretty CGI and the fight at the end.
It is worth seeing in the cinema if you're a fan of movies. As mentioned, the plot isn't anything special, but the world of Pandora (both visually and story-wise) is incredibly detailed and something you will want to see.
See the movie for the pretty-ness, not for the plot
Oh and our 3D glasses make everyone in the audience look like Buddy Holly.
[1] Time is a dimension. A film that only had length, width, depth but no duration wouldn't be much of a film.
It's ew.
Robert Downey Jr IS a great actor, I especially liked him in Iron Man (which is -except for the Dark Knight I still HAVEN'T watched- the only good Superhero movie in this... erm... 8 years), but the trailer shows us that this Holmes movie is not a, you know, HOLMES movie. Just like Lena_P tried to say. What I'd expect from Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Watson is to find clues, face tragedies, solve mind-boggling puzzles and make police arrest the bad guy. Explosions? A boxing scene? That jumping out of the window down to the river scene... Huh? I get that they try to make the movie dynamic, but Holmes is NOT dynamic, and that makes the atmosphere of it. I'm sorry, you guys will get a great action movie next year, but that'll be quite a disgrace to the name of Sherlock Holmes, if you ask me. I repeat, I believe this will be a great ACTION MOVIE with great visuals and explosions, but it won't be a good HOLMES movie. It'll be more like, you know, James Bond: Sherlock Holmes. Most of the Bond movies actually don't have "James Bond" in their names, so I can say I kinda do have a doubt...
The tough, gray-haired army veteran has become a bit of a stereotype and is used in many games and films.
Runaway 2
Futurama
...and plenty others.