If you want an actor to do voiceover work in an american accent, try not to hire an Australian who can't do one. That guy was lapsing in and out the whole time. Hell just let him speak australian if you're hell bent on having him.
I didn't dislike it for political reasons, just it was pulling me out of the movie to the real world too much. When they say jarhead or use other USMC lingo I could only think how un-Marine like they were acting all the time. When they talked about getting all the clans together to fight I started thinking about General Custer. It just put some very strong non-fantasy elements in a pure fantasy movie.
If we are going to nitpick, I do wish they would have made the marines a more work for hire soldier of fortune deal. Sure they mentioned it was that way....but they could have sort of made a point that these were all the people who washed out or who got court martialed out of the Marines etc..... Still, not that big of a deal in the overall spectacle of the movie, IMO. DD
I agree. Why make them all Marines? So dumb, these guys should have been more outlaw types. Like guys that Blackwater rejected for being trigger happy. I mean it is obvious what they were there training for, genocide. these guys seemed less like outlaws than the "Marines" in aliens. Those seemed much more outlaw like.
Because space marines have been a convention of sci fi books/movies/games etc for like 50 years. Not hard to figure out.
Changing the landscape of movie going and making IMax relevent to the masses. Cameron strikes again. DD
I watched in 2D and small screen 3D. I will check out IMAX to see if the 3D is better. It took my eyes several minutes to adjust to 3D.
Really? I loved the arrow and bullet scenes but the other stuff did not seem to increase the enjoyment to me very much. the way they mostly just used it to create depth to scene, with one person being forward and the other being back just did not provide enough to overcome the loss of resolution for me.
I think there are only a few quality Digital 3D projection screens in Austin, fortunatly I got to see it on one....and was amazed by it. The little floating dealies around the tree and when they got onto the Avatar were amazing. DD
But no way IMAX can account for it's huge grosses alone. Looks like there's only 6 3D IMAX (small or regular screen) theaters in the Houston area...compare that to around 18 non-IMAX screens it's playing on at AMC locations alone. The film is playing on around 3500 screens total. I'd be curious to know how much money it's made on IMAX vs. regular screens though. And in any case, the fact that people want to see it on IMAX is a testament to the strength of the film. I had never seen a film on IMAX before until this one, and I've seen it twice there.
I would love to see a different cut of this movie. It was a chick flick disguised as a scifi movie. Even the music at the end sounded very similar to the ending of Titanic. Loved the cool gadgets.
Fixed it. I wonder if women are returning as much as men are. I had zero interest in seeing Titanic twice, and for the life of me, couldn't understand those women who went to see it 6-7 times. If both women and men are going back for repeated viewings of Avatar at $16+, it will beat Titanic.
The movie has already passed up The Dark Knight worldwide and it's only been out for 17 days! Saw this on another forum as to how long some the 3 movies before Avatar took to pass a billion: POTC-DMC: 10 weeks ROTK: 10 weeks Titanic: 11 weeks Avatar did it in 17 days!
