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Just think of the depression THAT would cause. People will just be offing themselves in the virtual 3D world.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Good.

Like Steve said, I saw this with him and his wife earlier today.

The 3D generally worked well for me. There were times where it got a little hard for me and whenever the subtitles came up my eyes would have to completely readjust. I also had a terrible splitting headache halfway through the movie. During the car ride home it cleared up. It was pretty awesome when things were working right for me. My wife said the 3D does nothing for her. She just doesn't see it any differently. She said once in a while she'll notice a little something in the foreground but thats it. Because 3D doesn't work on her and because it's not so hot for me, I probably won't make it a habit to see movies in 3D.

Anyway, I really loved watching this again. The first time we saw this movie we were a little stressed out because we had just gotten back from the pregnancy test and were waiting for results, so it was hard at the time to just kind of veg out and enjoy the whole thing. It's a great movie though and I'm glad I got to see it again.

Speaking of which, the theater was packed and I just checked numbers for the weekend... another 40 million. I wonder if this movie might actually topple Titanic. Insane.

Yeah man I am probably going to see it again on Friday...it also just won best director and best picture at the Globes...awesome movie.

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saw it. it looked great. cameron knows how to make cash. there is no denying that.

i forgot i had one huge gripe "unobtainium". nuff said.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH. I didn't even REALIZE that. Hahahahaha.

i have no idea why they did that. i really don't. i mean who would even write that? really? i was glad they only said it like twice in the entire movie. and yes the planet name was weak as well. they might as well have just called it Cortana.

I had no idea that it was an actual term. Still is pretty cheesy that they called it that instead of making up a name for it. I guess it didn't bother me so much because it wasn't really that big a part of a movie, just a plot device to move things forward.

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i dont care. it is dumb to use that in a movie. make up a name for it.

It was a Mcguffin!

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Finally saw Avatar. Left feeling pissed. Yurgh.

Hahaha you can't say you left feeling pissed and then not explain.

He probably wishes he lived on Pandora.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

well if you didnt see it in 3d or imax 3d, i could understand that.

No, I did see it in 3D. In fact, that's part of the problem. Going in I expected what most people said in reviews...that the story was so-so, but the visuals and the "experience" make up for it and then some.

But the story sucked, and the visuals just made me angry.

3D films...are awful. Awful. I really wanted this to be the film to convince me that there was a legit future to 3D, but it failed completely. I thought it would work. It's not something like Harry Potter or whatever and they converted it to 3D, he filmed this with 3D in mind. And it doesn't fucking work.

It does not look 3D. I challenge anyone to say that 3D films feel like they have real depth. You know what it looks like? One of those View-Master toy images--there isn't real depth to characters, it just looks like one flat plane (a character) popping over another flat plane (a background).

And you know what, not only was it terrible 3D, but it made the film hard to watch. Those polarized 3D lenses make the image blurry as shit. Fuck, I'm paying 12 bucks to see something on a digital projector, which can handle high resolution images, and they just make things blurry again with the 3D effect. If I was an artist working on the film, I'd be fucking pissed off that the goddamn 3D shit is making it hard to see my work.

You know how a good movie, a really good movie, can make you forget you're watching a film because you get so invested in the experience? Hell, that's part of the reason you see a movie, and it makes the theater experience special because it's easier to be immersed.

I did not have that feeling ONCE in Avatar. Not once, and I know it was mostly to do with the 3D stuff. It was distracting. I kept thinking "I'm watching a movie. This is fake. I've got fucking glasses on my face in a theater." Christ, I know James Cameron is pushing 3D for the exact OPPOSITE reason, he thinks it makes things more immersive. It doesn't. Because when Sgt. Stereotype is talking about some scar on his face, I'm only thinking "FUCK, I can't see a scar, fucking blurry...GODDAMN GLASSES."

3D. What a crock.

And FUCK ALL, my eyes were hurting a half hour in. Seriously, if 3D is going mainstream, I will simply not see things in the theater, because my eyes couldn't take it.

I can't even get to how bad the story was. And how fake the whole movie looked. I mean...I liked the animation, or mo-cap rather, in that the characters moved well. But jeebus they looked like cartoon characters mixing with humans. Seriously, it was like Roger Rabbit with Ellen Ripley.

So that's why I was pissed. Because this crappy movie is going to change movies for the worse for at least the next five years, until people start to realize that 3D is at best a gimmick, and at worst a scam.

idk, i saw it in 3d imax and i was pretty impressed. i mean only like 40% of the shots were done in 3d and i did see depth. most of them if you took off the glasses you could see them fine. but i was generally impressed by it.

however i could never see myself doing this for more then a few hours. honestly watching avatar was a strain. you can't move your head from side to side at all without the image blurring, so your neck is really stiff once you get out. i would never be able to casually watch tv in 3d. i would need a god damn neck brace. so i do have to agree that 3d is not ready for mainstream.

The 3D doesn't really "work" on everyone, me included, so your thoughts there I can agree with. But I don't agree with the whole movie looking fake. It's some rather convincing CG I think. There were a lot of times were I forgot I was basically watching a cartoon, the world felt very alive to me. I guess that's just my take on it.

Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. I thought it looked great. I didn't expect my mind to be blown by the 3D. It was kind of weird when you first look at it because it's not like you're watching a hologram or something or on the holodeck of the Enterprise. But I thought the effects were really cool. Especially in the jungle scenes. So you don't like the 3D, just don't watch movies in 3D from now on and you're set.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Well, I won't. But I think that really sucks. A shit-ton of movies are going to be released in 3D, and I'm kind of worried it'll get increasingly hard to see them in the normal fashion. I'm crossing my fingers this doesn't become completely mainstream.

I agree with this...And I think the story was better than so-so...sure its a familiar story but its still a good one.

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Dear John took down Avatar.

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