I will be getting the super-duper DVD that comes out in November. I have no idea if that’s got the extra footage in it, though I wouldn’t be surprised.
Avatar Special Edition = **cash-in.
**
Only a bone fide sap would go watch what they’ve effectively already paid for and get fleeced by avaricious film companies who think the movie-goer is not smarter than gamers who forks out for ‘downloadable content’ that’s already on the disk.
For me the best option is:
I watched it once at home as I’ve got better picture and sound (and no sticky goo on the floor, no laser pointers and no cell phones) than most ant farm multiplexes. I won’t see the new version as I still can not see 3D images.
If they removed ~45 minutes of film and replaced it with the 9 minutes of new stuff, and the reviews were positive, then I’d consider going to see it.
I saw it in 2D in the theater with my wife and 13-year old son and loved it. I liked it so much that I watched again the next day in 3D with just my wife, because my son didn’t want to see it again so soon.
The 3D was incredible. It was the first 3D movie I’ve ever enjoyed, and was the first time that I actually thought the 3D added something to the film, as opposed to just being an annoying gimmick. The movie left the theaters before I could take my son to the 3D version (which he now regrets missing after hearing us talk about how great it was).
A few months later, we watched it at home on Blu-Ray with my step-daughter, who’d missed it in the theater.
Now with the re-release, my wife and I will probably take my son to see it in 3D.
The last movie I watched more than once in the theater was Titanic, so James Cameron is doing something right, as far as I’m concerned.
While I don’t disagree that it’s a cash-in, why would someone who goes to see it be a sap? It’s been out of the theaters for months and only available on DVD, which is a far inferior experience. If you want to experience the movie the way it should be experienced, now you have the chance to do so. If you’ve already seen it and liked it, by all means, go again. If not and you want to see it in a way that you can’t at home, go again. If you don’t want to, don’t go. It’s not like this is a typical movie where the DVD experience is more or less the same as going to see it in the theater. The theater experience is significantly different than the home experience. I don’t plan to see it again (once was enough) but I can’t blame people if they want to see this again in its full 3D glory.
I might go see it, as I’ve only seen it on DVD, but I will also be bringing along my Rifftrax commentary on my iPhone as well, I may need to re-sync a couple times due to the additional footage, but it shouldn’t be too hard to do
“Yaay! it has marshmallow”
“I’m lying in the Squishy!”
<JakeSoolie pratfalls in his Avatar body>
Aaanndd…he’s paralyzed from the waist down…
<when the helicopter-lizard thingy takes off spinning>
Help, I’m dizzy! I have no evolutionary purpose!
You’re not really going to be that guy that uses their phone in the cinema, are you?
Saw it in 3D in the theater, wanted to see it again in 3D but missed on timing. So will be going back again.
Nope, I’ll start the Rifftrax, then put the phone back in the case which blocks 100% of the light from the display, the standard headphones have an in-line remote that can pause playback, so I most likely won’t have to look at the phone again to re-sync it when the Rifftrax drifts out of sync or I encounter the extended footage
I never got around to watching it in theatres, so I rented it on DVD. I was terribly, terribly bored and bailed on it about 30 minutes into it. No way I’m paying to see it again.
It’s insulting.
Look, was the movie finished or not? If it wasn’t, why the hell did you charge me 20 bucks to go see it (or whatever my ticket cost)? If it was, then why should I think that an extra 9 minutes of cutting-room floor material is worth paying that 20 bucks a second time?
If I wanted to see the movie in the theater again anyway, then maybe I’d go for this, but it would have absolutely nothing to do with a small amount of extra footage.
I saw it at my friends place on DVD and it was much better than I thought it would be.
However, he isn’t set up for 3D (yet) so I will go to see it this weekend because it is my birthday, so there.
It’s pretty funny when my 7 year old son comments on that.
…There were nips in the 15 minute “Avatar” day footage shown months prior. I believe it was the “this very sad! you like a child!” scene.
Hmmmm… couldn’t find the “Saw it in IMAX 3D a bunch of times and have already seen the new version in IMAX 3D and will certainly see it a bunch more times in IMAX 3D cause that’s what they pay me for” option.
I’d have chosen that one.
Some things are meant to be seen on the Big Screen and in 3D, and this film was one of them. I enjoyed the theatrical release a lot, and actually might go again if, say, a friend wanted to see it for the first time. No interest in having it on a DVD/Blu Ray at home–what’s the point, if not 3D/Big Screen? So I’m hedging my answer.