Avatar (New James Cameron Movie) - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > Media
Avatar (New James Cameron Movie) Avatar (New James Cameron Movie)
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
Page 3 of 3 12 3
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 09-12-2009, 03:44 PM   #21 (permalink)
Dr. Prunk
 
boo boo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Where the buffalo roam.
Posts: 12,137
Default


This is the work of an Academy award winning director folks.
__________________
It's only knock n' knowall, but I like it

http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs

Quote:
Originally Posted by Strummer521
Quote:
Originally Posted by Crowquill View Post
I only listen to Santana when I feel like being annoyed.
I only listen to you talk when I want to hear Emo performed acapella.
boo boo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-12-2009, 08:04 PM   #22 (permalink)
Ba and Be.
 
jackhammer's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: This Is England
Posts: 17,331
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by toretorden View Post
I think True Lies is a brilliant action flick! My favourite Cameron film however is without a doubt Aliens. I consider it a fantastic piece of movie history and I'm forever thankful. Terminator 1 and 2 are also good.

Titanic is not the sort of film I like to watch, but from an objective point of view, I'd argue that it is good. If you can agree that commercial value correlates to some extent with overall quality, I think it's still the biggest money maker in movie history.
Just because it made a shedload of money doesn't automatically qualify it as a great film. Technically brilliant maybe too but how many albums are techically brilliant that no one listens to? Titanic was a great achievement logistically. Still overwrought, sentimental claptrap IMO.

As for True Lies, I will confess to only watching it once just after it came out but the fact that I have never felt the need to rewatch is vindication enough for me, although Jamie Lee curtis FTW.
__________________

“A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”
jackhammer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-12-2009, 08:14 PM   #23 (permalink)
****ER OF HOLES
 
Terrible Lizard's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Butt****, Nebraska
Posts: 1,211
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by boo boo View Post


This is the work of an Academy award winning director folks.
I think that fishy deserves an oskarrrrr.
__________________
“YOU ARE SCUM SLUT.”
-John Martyn
Terrible Lizard is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2009, 08:23 AM   #24 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by jackhammer View Post
Whilst it undeniably looks great, I find Cameron as miss as he is it. The Abyss was overlong, True Lies was just another action film to me and Titanic? *sigh*. I have heard that the technology involved is another step forward in movie making but if the story still sucks then that doesn't matter a jot.

Of course no one cannot judge the film yet but I doubt if I will be rushing to the cinema to see it.
I like the Abyss quite a bit and I'll probably have my man club membership revoked for saying this but I actually like Titanic too. True Lies on the other hand sucked ass. Cameron tried to make two stories into one movie and ended up doing a half-assed job with both. Also, lamest movie villain ever in that one.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2009, 08:25 AM   #25 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by boo boo View Post


This is the work of an Academy award winning director folks.
I've never gotten around to seeing Piranha II but wasn't it supposed to kind of a B-movie parody anyway?
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2009, 10:15 AM   #26 (permalink)
Juicious Maximus III
 
Guybrush's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Scabb Island
Posts: 6,525
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
I've never gotten around to seeing Piranha II but wasn't it supposed to kind of a B-movie parody anyway?
Contrary to what one might think from watching clips etc, the flying fish are nowhere enough to make the movie funny. I can't remember any humorous stuff from it that was intentional, so I don't think it's a parody. My guess is it just failed.
__________________
Something Completely Different
Guybrush is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2009, 10:26 AM   #27 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by toretorden View Post
Contrary to what one might think from watching clips etc, the flying fish are nowhere enough to make the movie funny. I can't remember any humorous stuff from it that was intentional, so I don't think it's a parody. My guess is it just failed.
Ah, I think I just figured out the source of my confusion. Looks like the first Piranha movie, which was directed by Joe Dante and written by John Sayles, is the one that was a parody. What a weird decision to make a non-parody sequel to a parody movie. No wonder it turned out so awful.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2009, 10:59 AM   #28 (permalink)
Dr. Prunk
 
boo boo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Where the buffalo roam.
Posts: 12,137
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by toretorden View Post
Contrary to what one might think from watching clips etc, the flying fish are nowhere enough to make the movie funny. I can't remember any humorous stuff from it that was intentional, so I don't think it's a parody. My guess is it just failed.
Yeah, this movie seemed to take itself way too seriously despite having the most ridiculous premise in horror film history. Unlike the Joe Dante original which was clearly a goofy parody.

Also this movie was edited and spliced up without Cameron's consent, he did the shooting for the film but other than that his role in the production was very minimal. And in a lot of interviews he calls The Terminator his first film, hmm. maybe this is one movie he'd like to forget.
__________________
It's only knock n' knowall, but I like it

http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs

Quote:
Originally Posted by Strummer521
Quote:
Originally Posted by Crowquill View Post
I only listen to Santana when I feel like being annoyed.
I only listen to you talk when I want to hear Emo performed acapella.
Last edited by boo boo; 09-14-2009 at 11:11 AM.
boo boo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2009, 07:04 PM   #29 (permalink)
Reformed Jackass
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3,964
Default
Wikipedia has the plot outline.
ProggyMan is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Page 3 of 3 12 3

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Similar Threads


Terms & Privacy - Contact Us - Music Banter - Archive - Top

© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.