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"I just saw Avatar" Thread

Amazing movie.

Creativity unleashed with a technological marvel, making a beautiful visual and a strong emotional experience in an epic story with one of the most important messages to mankind.

This movie truly is a milestone in a history of cinema.


Bravo.
 
Just saw it in odeon and to say the least...

It was unbelievable. First time I've heard an audience applause after a film...

I'm going to see it again, I just need to get my head around it all being fake, there were bits when I thought 'that is surely real' but I know it was all animation and so on. It's changed my view on 3D thats for sure. Just...I hope not all films will take the 3D for the sake of it(Step Up?), Avatar was one that took it with good intentions and made it worth the experience of having glasses on your face the whole time.

The story itself was to the point, no fluff, no extra bs that wasn't needed. Everything came together and made it a worthwhile film...my only thought is...I can see where all that money they spent went but I don't see how it'll make it back on cinema views alone, I guess DVD sales but the experience I'm sure will be lost...hopefully not but I haven't found a 3D film I enjoyed at home and I think going from having seen this epic piece in 3D and then watching it in 2D may well lessen my overall experience.

Ah well...If you see it, I'm sure you'll love it. It's more then just a Sci-Fi film...
 
The box office on this film will surpass 3-4 Billion that's for sure. 5 Billion considering many people will want to see it multiple times with friends, family etc. Titanic made a worldwide box office of 2.5 billion. Hard to see how this will be beneath that. Except it probably wont be shown in many countries due to "political themes"...So I'm not sure. Titanic was in cinema's for what, a whole year?
 
Steven Caesare said:
Ace, didja' see it in 3D? IMAX?

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3D. Is there any other way? Not Imax but V-Max, which is a competing version of the mini-Imax here in Australia. Dolby 3D.

If you're going to see this film, pick a theater which has comfortable seats and isn't too cramped. You're in there for a while.
 
Ace said:
3D. Is there any other way? Not Imax but V-Max, which is a competing version of the mini-Imax here in Australia. Dolby 3D.

If you're going to see this film, pick a theater which has comfortable seats and isn't too cramped. You're in there for a while.
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Was your 3D in scope? Cause I heard that the 2D version would be scope and the 3D would be 16:9 but then I went and saw the 3D version and it was in scope.
 
I'm still recovering... Wow! Can't wait to go see it another time.

The movie reminded me of 2 good movies I would strongly suggest for you to see and that I think Cameron took some inspiration from: "Howl's Moving Castle" beacause of the flying mountains and "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" for the story about hidden / lost worlds and the destructive nature of mankind. Both animes, both great movies, especially Nausicaä. I often felt Avatar was a live-action Anime because of how all that beauty and marvel was presented. And then the sudden and intense action sequences.

Anyway, what a great movie...
 
This will rock the box office. I'm not the type to go back to cinema for the same movie and I'm seeing Avatar on Sunday again.


Here it's shown in Dolby 3D, which is inferior 3D to RealD (50-60% of the RealD experience IMO), plus there is distracting light bounce inside the glasses, but Avatar experience is great nevertheless.
 
Hrvoje Simic said:
This will rock the box office. I'm not the type to go back to cinema for the same movie and I'm seeing Avatar on Sunday again.


Here it's shown in Dolby 3D, which is inferior 3D to RealD (50-60% of the RealD experience IMO), plus there is distracting light bounce inside the glasses, but Avatar experience is great nevertheless.
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I am definately going back to see it many more times. This quote from an article sums it up nicely:

"The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.”
 
Ace said:
I am definately going back to see it many more times. This quote from an article sums it up nicely:

"The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.”
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Yeah, good quote. I think my next time won't be the last. There is so much to experience there, and after this 2D home version definitely won't cut it.

Whether one perceives this as an emotional experience, great entertainment, exceptional 21st. century artwork exhibit or all together, it calls for another ride...
 
Hrvoje Simic said:
Yeah, good quote. I think my next time won't be the last. There is so much to experience there, and after this 2D home version definitely won't cut it.
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Im going to see a 35mm film print of Akira this friday on the big screen... Akira is one of my alltime favourite films of my youth. I fear that after watching Avatar, everything is going to look and feel boring in comparison. Its a bit like trying Meth or something!

And I think for the first time, I really get the idea of what 60fps projection would add to the viewing experience. If the art is good, it will aid the immersion.
 
Ace said:
And I think for the first time, I really get the idea of what 60fps projection would add to the viewing experience. If the art is good, it will aid the immersion.
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I think high fps should be a rule for 3D.

This is just too slow and kills 3D. Period.

The studios might have had justified reasons not to listen to Cameron this time, but this motion strobing in immersive world has to go - ASAP. The scene in the first part of the movie with beast attacking Jake hiding under a tree clearly proves that.
 
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