[Lynx Cat]

Is like this. Really really pretty, and also really really stupid. Worth seeing only if you watch it in the theater, and in 3D, for the purpose of seeing how far we've come in visuals and 3D moviemaking. Yes, it's way gorgeous, and has its merits as a piece of visual art. But if you're seeing it for the story or the sci-fi... just forget it.

[Kishi]

I don't know about anyone else, but I always look forward to paying $15 for a two-and-a-half hour long tech demo.

[Lynx Cat]

That's exactly what I intentionally did (except it was $26 BRL). Hey, it's nice enough as a visual experience. The 3D is really impressive; you simply ARE RIGHT FREAKIN' THERE where the movie is happening. Sure, this movie will be completely unimportant once this kind of quality spreads out enough around the industry, since it has next to zero value as a story - but right now, I don't really regret watching it at the theater.

[TLRIV]

http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/James-Camerons-Pocahontas.gif

[Benevolance]

That was so freakin' awesome.

[Kishi]

As an added bonus, maybe you'll win a free depression!

Humankind, I hate you. Like, all of you. Not just Lance, but all of you.

[sarabethv]

Kishi: thought you said you weren't going? Now I find out that you WANT to pay outrageous price to see this.


On a side note, I am tempted to go see it because the Vatican has criticized it.

http://www.washingto...0011200690.html

[Lynx Cat]

Adminbot, on 13 January 2010 - 03:52 PM, said:

http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/James-Camerons-Pocahontas.gif

That's actually pretty accurate, yeah. But my point still stands - if you take this chick out on a date, it's not because you're interested in her geopolitical commentary.

edit: and I had already vaguely read about the "Avatar blues" (which circle of Pun Hell does that earn?) and to me it sounds like people griping about the recently-discovered fact that our real world does not have catgirls. Yet.

This post has been edited by Lynx Cat: 13 January 2010 - 05:40 PM

[Hans]

I don't know Lynx. There's furries, and there's therions.

[Lynx Cat]

Exactly. Think about how vindicated those people felt watching Avatar, and how depressed they got at the end when they realized it's fiction.

[Hans]

I don't quite understand how the viewers didn't know that it's fiction.

I'm just sayin, in a comment to your edit of your post about there being a lack of catgirls, there's furries and therians.

The film itself, while fiction, has enough of a realistic, albeit basic, story to go along with it. The writers have probably given enough sense of human emotion and human qualities to the characters in order to make them relatable. Which could justify the depression.

Personally, when I watched Forrest Gump, I was depressed by the end.

[TLRIV]

The supposed depression comes from the knowledge that it is fiction

[Lynx Cat]

Hans, on 17 January 2010 - 12:25 PM, said:

I don't quite understand how the viewers didn't know that it's fiction.

I'm just sayin, in a comment to your edit of your post about there being a lack of catgirls, there's furries and therians.

The film itself, while fiction, has enough of a realistic, albeit basic, story to go along with it. The writers have probably given enough sense of human emotion and human qualities to the characters in order to make them relatable. Which could justify the depression.

Personally, when I watched Forrest Gump, I was depressed by the end.

I really think you're looking too deep into this whole conversation. I mean, if you know what I'm talking about... that makes it 1 of us :P

[Hans]

Ok.

[Darth Wychipu]

It really bad in some cases...

[sarabethv]

Wow. Reminds me of the 60's and stuff. (The not not the movie.

[Lynx Cat]

sarabethv, on 07 March 2010 - 01:10 PM, said:

Wow. Reminds me of the 60's and stuff. (The not not the movie.

??

[TLRIV]

Sara's having a bad trip

[lgm]

I have yet to see this movie. I was just so uninterested in the plot synopsis. It seems to be a huge thing because of the boundaries it breaks in film making but uses a tired story pitch. I'm sure it's directed phenomenally. It's the Star Wars of this generation.

[TLRIV]

I also have not seen this movie. Avatar was rubbed in my face so hard and so often that I lost interest in it before it ever came out.

[Lynx Cat]

Well it's pretty much nothing but a 2 1/2-hour long tech demo of 3D, although it *is* by golly the best 3D anyone's ever going to see anywhere (up to now anyway). That, and nothing else. Take it or leave it.

[jade_firefly]

I hated the 3D. At no point could I forget that I was wearing 3D glasses. I dunno if it's something wrong with my eyes, but the whole time it just felt like I was wearing glasses with a prescription that was -slightly- off on one side. Spent the whole movie tipping and angling my head, trying to find just the right angle, and never managing it.

I'd rather have spent the regular price and seen it without the glasses. At least then I'd be able to come away from it saying, "Pretty movie, don't see what the hype is," but instead it's all griping about the fucking 3D.

[lgm]

There is a percentage of the population that just can't view 3D. With the advent of stereoscopic tv coming into the market, these people may be left behind if the technology becomes popular in the next decade. I can see 3D movies but it's slightly off in a way where I'm very aware of it that it looks fake in a weird way. Others just see flat 2D images still.

[jade_firefly]

lgm, on 21 March 2010 - 05:30 PM, said:

There is a percentage of the population that just can't view 3D. With the advent of stereoscopic tv coming into the market, these people may be left behind if the technology becomes popular in the next decade. I can see 3D movies but it's slightly off in a way where I'm very aware of it that it looks fake in a weird way. Others just see flat 2D images still.

This. EXACTLY this. I kept trying to figure out how to make it NOT do that, and I never could.

Annoying, since I can see the magic eye shit.

[elliott20]

Eventually, Jade did managed to see the sailboat

This post has been edited by elliott20: 22 March 2010 - 09:31 AM

[Lynx Cat]

Funny, Magic eye stuff is completely fucking impossible for me. Trust me, I've tried everything, and I've never seen even the faintest and most ill-defined bump. I guess that has something to do with the fact that each of my eyes is different (one is myopic, and one is astigmatic, about 2 degrees each). "Traditional", red-and-blue-glasses 3D also works like shit for me, if at all. So I went into this movie with a lot of trepidation about whether or not I was going to be able to see anything. I was quite pleasantly surprised that not only yes, I could see the 3D (and it looked completely real to me, as I've posted above), but I could still see it even when my left eye got blurry (from my contact drying up or something), which happened a few times, as it often does when I'm watching something for an extended period. So I guess the current polarized light technology still gives different results for different people, though it's certainly a vast improvement over previous technologies, especially when the movie is made *for* 3D, as this one was. The fact that I can see it but not most other forms of 3D has got to mean something.

[xenomega]

elliott20, on 22 March 2010 - 10:30 AM, said:

Eventually, Jade did managed to see the sailboat

Its a schooner!

[Benevolance]

I had planned to see this movie. But I kind of got sidetracked with other projects and now the Imax is playing Alice in Wonderland. I totally missed the schooner on that one.