Comments on: AVATAR http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/ What we're watching and how it measures up in Contour Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:56:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Winter http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-875 Winter Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:20:37 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1892#comment-875 Yes agree with all, the reason you just have to see it though is the technology. Ive never seen a movie like that before. Forget the story, it was just like everyone says. The part that made it a billion dollar movie is technology you've never seen before. GO SEE IT. Yes agree with all, the reason you just have to see it though is the technology. Ive never seen a movie like that before. Forget the story, it was just like everyone says. The part that made it a billion dollar movie is technology you’ve never seen before. GO SEE IT.

]]> By: totallywrite http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-839 totallywrite Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:56:03 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1892#comment-839 I think it's you. ;) I don't think Avatar failed to answer the questions, I just agree with you that it's way too familiar. What's groundbreaking to me about the film is how the shots are so totally designed to take advantage of depth, truly embracing the 3D technology in an organic way (as compared to the old SCTV "Doctor Tongue's 3D House of Pancakes" type of cheeseball goof on 3D.) I think it’s you. ;)

I don’t think Avatar failed to answer the questions, I just agree with you that it’s way too familiar. What’s groundbreaking to me about the film is how the shots are so totally designed to take advantage of depth, truly embracing the 3D technology in an organic way (as compared to the old SCTV “Doctor Tongue’s 3D House of Pancakes” type of cheeseball goof on 3D.)

]]> By: JayV http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-837 JayV Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:53:12 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1892#comment-837 Jeffrey, Jake's professional goal is not to integrate into the Na’vi people in order "to help them" so much as "to broker a diplomatic settlement with them" or "to find out what it'll take for them to move". Isn't it? As for the Personal and the Private, hmmm ... One of them ought to mention "becoming a warrior - again" Is it me or are you blaming the movie for not having been able to answer those questions as well as you usually do? That seems to be the wrong way around because the story worked fine. It just wasn't very interesting, and certainly not very original. (It was never going to be 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Isn't it the motion-capture technology that's groundbreaking - the way the faces of the computer-generated characters have expressiveness that approaches that of the physically present actors. Not to mention the detail rendering of the landscape. Jeffrey,

Jake’s professional goal is not to integrate into the Na’vi people in order “to help them” so much as “to broker a diplomatic settlement with them” or “to find out what it’ll take for them to move”. Isn’t it? As for the Personal and the Private, hmmm … One of them ought to mention “becoming a warrior – again”

Is it me or are you blaming the movie for not having been able to answer those questions as well as you usually do? That seems to be the wrong way around because the story worked fine. It just wasn’t very interesting, and certainly not very original. (It was never going to be 2001: A Space Odyssey.)

Isn’t it the motion-capture technology that’s groundbreaking – the way the faces of the computer-generated characters have expressiveness that approaches that of the physically present actors. Not to mention the detail rendering of the landscape.

]]> By: Patrick Edgeworth http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Patrick Edgeworth Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:44:18 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1892#comment-821 You have seen this before. It was like telling the story of the American Indian and ending it at the battle of the Little Big Horn. You have seen this before. It was like telling the story of the American Indian and ending it at the battle of the Little Big Horn.

]]> By: Greg http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-792 Greg Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:31:15 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1892#comment-792 Couldn't agree with you more about this film. I really loved looking at it but the story, in my opinion, was something we have already seen before. There are so many 'other' stories to tell that could have used this wonderful new tech and this is what we get! Ugh. I want Ringworld, Rama, and other great classic sci-fi stories that couldn't be filmed until now! Couldn’t agree with you more about this film. I really loved looking at it but the story, in my opinion, was something we have already seen before. There are so many ‘other’ stories to tell that could have used this wonderful new tech and this is what we get! Ugh. I want Ringworld, Rama, and other great classic sci-fi stories that couldn’t be filmed until now!

]]> By: David Goulet http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-780 David Goulet Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:51:56 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1892#comment-780 Not the second coming....you kill me. Haven't seen this yet, have no real desire to. It's Pocahontas in space. I suspect Cameron saw the movie Terra and thought "With my budgets I can make this a live action tentpole." Because from what I've seen of the trailers it's an awful lot like Terra's plot. Still, it's movies like this, that demand to be seen on the big screen, that will save the movie biz. And that's good news. Not the second coming….you kill me. Haven’t seen this yet, have no real desire to. It’s Pocahontas in space. I suspect Cameron saw the movie Terra and thought “With my budgets I can make this a live action tentpole.” Because from what I’ve seen of the trailers it’s an awful lot like Terra’s plot.

Still, it’s movies like this, that demand to be seen on the big screen, that will save the movie biz. And that’s good news.

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