Do you realize you’re behaving like a child? Are you going to start calling people poopyheads as well?
I’m not reviewing the movie. I said it looks like shit. I stand by that. I see no obligation to see a movie that looks stupid to me made by a director who’s made no movies that I thought were good.
I haven’t insulted anyone. I just expressed my opinion of Avatar. I’m really sick of the hype. Sue me.
Yeah, you’ve now said that in 5 consecutive posts in the same thread. You’re the only one here who seems weirdly obsessed with it. Why do you think you need to repeat the exact same words 5 times in a row?
Do you judge all movies by their trailers and books by their cover?
No, you expressed an opinion based on others’ opinions of Avatar, and maybe a trailer or two.
A very thick distinction.
I just said it looks terrible. Christ, I said the same thing elsewhere and I didn’t get so much crap for it. I didn’t know this place was crawling with Avatar zealots.
I would have called you out on your blatent ignorance regardless of the movie, when you post the same uninformed opinion 3-5+ times in a row for a movie in which you admit to having not seen.
In other places did you repeat yourself after every single post? Or did you just give your opinion and move on?
I said it LOOKS terrible not that it IS terrible. I am really sorry I offended you by making this pronouncement. Among my friends and social circle, people have conversations that go like this:
“Have you seen Avatar?”
“No, it looks terrible.”
We are not required or expected to see every movie before we are even entitled to say whether it “looks” good to us.
On a different note–I haven’t seen *Crazy Heart *yet either, but Jeff Bridges is my all-time favorite actor (since way before it was cool to worship at the altar of The Dude) and it was great to see him recognized. His acceptance speech seemed genuine and heartfelt.
And then you went on to insult those who disagree with your obviously uninformed opinion. Do you insult others in real life for things in which you’re completely ignorant of? And continue to do so over and over until someone pays you the attention for which you’re apparently so desperate for?
I didn’t say exactly the same thing more than once, and I seriously didn’t expect people would get so wound up over it. I was kind of irritated and made three posts. All right. What’s done is done. If your fight is telling off that guy in the Golden Globes thread who hated on James Cameron, that’s your battle and you fought it well. I am vanquished and corrected and feel small for having thrice expressed an opinion. I am chastened and humiliated. I lost. You won.
Know what? They are still digging dead bodies out of the rubble in Haiti
It had a fantastic story, interesting characters, a good story flow and a message that made a lasting impression on (most) viewers. AND it’s the most advanced visual film ever made. No one likes it because it’s the most expensive movie, that’s just silly.
If it were only about expense and special effects then 2012 would have made a lot more money and be in the running for tons of awards. 2012 didn’t even break $200 million in the US, and it’s ONLY gotten special effects attention, which was totally overshadowed when Avatar was released.
And Avatar had all those things. You and others may not agree. Doesn’t make you right. Doesn’t mean I’m right either, but a lot more people agree with me than with you.
I like those films too, and luckily I don’t limit myself to them. I like what I like and it doesn’t matter to me if other people like them too. My favorites from last year were Away We Go, Moon, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, (500) Days of Summer, The Invention of Lying, An Education, The Messenger, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Inglorious Basterds, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and some others I’ll think of after the edit window closes. Avatar’s among them.
Shame that didn’t occur to you before you posted the first three times.
ETA: And continue to do so, apparently.
I stand by every comment I made. I said Avatar looks terrible to me, and it does. I am an expert on what looks terrible to me. I am probably the world’s foremost authority on the subject.
I’m not sure who would “disagree” with me about what looks terrible to me or where or how I insulted them.
No, you were arguing that what looks “terrible” to you makes those who think otherwise WHO HAVE SEEN IT “stupid” and “10 years old.”
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I seriously didn’t think it would cause such a fuss to post variations on a thought. I got defensive when attacked. I am sorry. Carry on.
Avatar’s script was a moronic Frankensteinian collection of clichés from other movies sewed together to make a moral point about a world which had the ecological sophistication of Epcot.
But it didn’t look terrible. It looks better than I was expecting. Something on screen kept my attention the whole time we were away from the humans, who were dullsville.
I can’t figure out cricetus’ actual complaint. I might even like to join in. I kept calling it Dances with Avatars. But looking terrible? Do you have one glass eye? That would be a legitimate problem.
I wanted Cameron’s ex-wife to win.
Maybe he just drinks a lot of blueberry Kool-Aid.