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Posted: January 12, 2010 12:08 am  | |||||||||||||
      IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8    | Heh... I saw Two Towers five times in theaters, and Return of the King seven times. Avatar is currently standing at three, so I'll admit LotR still ranks higher for me in terms of ticket expenses (not adjusted for inflation). --------------------  | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 12:41 am | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Dnovelta Group: Emeritus Posts: 2750 Member No.: 130 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 137 | I found LoTR boring...but that's just me. --------------------   | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 01:41 am | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Webberson Group: Guest Posts: 153 Member No.: 2205 Joined: January 8, 2010 Total Events Attended: 12 | Haven't even seen, it doesn't appeal to me, it's one of those few films that come in the cinema that i think "eh, not too bothered i'll wait until it comes out on blu-ray". But my mate who works at the cinemas near me said they sold out for 2 weeks straight when it was released so it must be popular. -------------------- Mikel Arteta  Tim CahillNothing But The Best | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 01:44 am | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Well, to all you Avatards, the script for Avatar was written 1 year before Pocahontas, yes... But the script for Pocahontas was also written before the release of Pocahontas. It's still older than Avatar. --------------------  | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 02:25 am | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Colin Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2039 Member No.: 68 Joined: December 31, 2007 Total Events Attended: 69 |
Sooooo... while James Cameron was writing Avatar, he ripped off someone else who was writing a script at the time? At that logic, Pocahontas could have been a rip off of Avatar. --------------------   Proud WG member from January 2006 - Fall 2009 | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 02:33 am | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Vephy Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 6186 Member No.: 813 Joined: June 10, 2008 Total Events Attended: 478 | A man+woman with a gun wot --------------------   | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 02:42 am | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 | This was of course changed with "No Country for Old Men" which then won an award for being the worst movie of the year. -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 08:36 am | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 | I have to say that while I enjoyed Avatar for the impressive CGI (and I didn't even see it in 3D, which I imagine would be even better) I thought the story was very very lacking, and was merely a tool to show the new special effects. I agree with everyone who says its shallow & unorigional. It was the sterotypical 'hero saves people/falls in love/etc. etc.' movie, and while I didn't really link it so strongly with Pocohontas I found it booring all the same. As my friend summarised it: "Avatar was booring, I knew within 30 mins I would be bored the whole time. Story was too simple & the buddhist style stuff was overplayed". I much prefered Sherlock Holmes, and as a result have been back to see it again (and plan to see the second which will no doubt come out in a few years). I won't be going to see Avatar 2 and 3, unless of course he actually writes something decent this time (which I doubt he will). --------------------  Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 11:15 am | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 |
Or perhaps realise Pocahontas is a true story from since the discovery of America. -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 12:33 pm | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Multi Group: Emeritus Posts: 668 Member No.: 49 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 12 |
Not actually true. Pocahontas herself is a real person, and something SIMILAR to the disney movie did happen, but really nothing at all like how they had it play out. For example, the dude was not named John Smith. Believe it was John Ralph but I may be wrong on that one. The disney movie is largely a work of fiction, only slightly based on historical fact. -------------------- Born at sea, baptized in blood your fame will never die. Your Division is one of the best if not the best division in the history of American arms -Gen George S Patton on the 45th Infantry Division  | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 02:16 pm | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Colin Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2039 Member No.: 68 Joined: December 31, 2007 Total Events Attended: 69 |
This. It was very historically inaccurate. -------------------- Proud WG member from January 2006 - Fall 2009 | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 03:57 pm | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Owennnn Group: Emeritus Posts: 1447 Member No.: 37 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 55 |
So was Avatar. -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 04:36 pm | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Sum41xx Group: Emeritus Posts: 630 Member No.: 102 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | What blows my mind is that just because a movie producer is able to make MANY people like his movie it is "over rated". It's a great movie and I went in to it ignoring what people had told me about it, and I loved it. And like some one said, you can watch it again and again. I've seen it twice in theatres, that in itself is very rare. The object of james cameron was to give an idea and have the viewer live and breathe the life of the characters. This he did very well. If you WERE a good critic you'd know that a film is not ONLY about the plot. Titanic for instance was similar in that there was a guy and a girl + conflict. I don't care what you have to say because your persuasion techniques of proving this movie is bad is only making it a better movie in my books. --------------------   Proud WG member since December 2003 | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 05:09 pm | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Abs Group: Emeritus Posts: 2071 Member No.: 4 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 97 | Never watched a movie twice in the theatres lol. I have seen LOTR hundreads of times at home. Sat for 12 hours on end watching the behind the scenes of all three films with Peter Jackson. He is a loveable character, although he's better when he's fat lol# ~Abs --------------------  "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Wg Council & Secondary Leader - 21/10/07 to 24/12/08 Msn: [email protected] | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 12, 2010 06:08 pm | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Colin Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2039 Member No.: 68 Joined: December 31, 2007 Total Events Attended: 69 |
Lol, we shall see! -------------------- Proud WG member from January 2006 - Fall 2009 | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 13, 2010 01:21 am | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Ok this will put the debate to rest.
http://www.hsx.com/blog/view.php?id=335 Pocahontas year of release: 1995 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/ -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 13, 2010 01:37 am | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Vephy Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 6186 Member No.: 813 Joined: June 10, 2008 Total Events Attended: 478 |
*gasp* -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 13, 2010 02:05 am | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Webberson Group: Guest Posts: 153 Member No.: 2205 Joined: January 8, 2010 Total Events Attended: 12 |
Agreed, I've seen Sherlock Holmes twice, i'm not too keen on Jude Law but the way he played Watson and along side Robert Dowie JR created alot of comical moments. Would definatly watch it again. (sorry i know it was slightly off-topic.) :x -------------------- Mikel Arteta Tim CahillNothing But The Best | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 14, 2010 05:45 pm | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | I was thinking about this, and really Avatar could stand on its down as an alternative history to the whole European colonization of the Americas. Namely, a world where the Native Americans kicked us back across the Atlantic. Following that hypothesis, sequels might actually not suck. -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: January 16, 2010 04:46 am | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Gibble00 Group: Emeritus Posts: 775 Member No.: 100 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 9 |
o.O oh my... That's a lot of tickets for a movie that is --------------------  | ||||||||||||
Posted: February 1, 2010 04:48 pm | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Actually I might be wrong on that. It might have been 3 ticks for Two Towers and 4 for RotK, for 7 total. Either way Avatar has grossed over $2 billion worldwide and $500 million of that total domestically - they must have done something right.  PS: Avatar currently stands at 4, thinking of going for a 5th. For the hell of it. -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: February 3, 2010 02:26 am | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Mmangler Group: Emeritus Posts: 1595 Member No.: 1580 Joined: December 24, 2008 Total Events Attended: 165 | Loved the movie. Unlike some of you, I just go to movies to be entertained assuming that there will be at least some gratuitious violence. -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: February 3, 2010 06:52 am | |||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 |
Yeah, but it's also nice if the movie you go to watch isn't a blatiant rip-off of one you've seen years earlier  --------------------  [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||||||||||||
Posted: February 3, 2010 12:24 pm | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 |
Show me a movie that's not a blatant ripoff of another movie and I'll show you the first movie ever made. I mean, come on, they all even stole the concept of using MOVING IMAGES.  -------------------- | ||||||||||||
Posted: February 3, 2010 12:33 pm | |||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | There's levels of originality. There's no PURE originality, but Avatar is not even close to original. -------------------- | ||||||||||||
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