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StaedlerMars:
--- Quote from: LTK on 30 Dec 2009, 13:57 ---Most of you probably didn't get subtitles of any sort, but I wonder whose decision it was to style the subtitles of Na'vi speech in Papyrus font.
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Actually, this was my only really negative reaction to the movie.
I cringed every time they appeared.
usmcnavgeek:
I loved the shit out of this film. The story is nothing special. But the experience is something else. I saw it in 3D, and it's like looking through a window. The CG is as close to flawless as can be done; after about 15 minutes I was ready to believe that there was this other world somewhere and Cameron had gone and sent a film crew to it.
This review (which isn't really a review, exactly) really sums up how I felt exiting the theater. I'm not going to go super hyperbolic and say "this is my generation's Star Wars," but it's up there. If you want to go into it with a smug sense of "I'm better than this movie and I'm not going to let it be good" then hey, you're probably not going to like it.
But if you go to it ready to experience the "magic of cinema," and be transported to another world, then you will not be disappointed.
Also on a completely different note, this writeup by a Ph.D biologist is an interesting take on the movie.
And speaking of Ph.D's, I like that they got a USC linguistics professor to create the Na'vi language from scratch. Say what you will, but Cameron does have some serious attention to detail.
Kugai:
usmcnavgeek, that second link is, for some reason, not working for me. It won't load and keeps white screening on me.
lprkn:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 27 Dec 2009, 22:00 ---2. What is stopping the company from coming back, completely obliterating everything from space and then harvesting their wonderful mineral? The army guys were really just mercenaries, so why not just hire a crapload more of them and firebomb the hell out of the aliens. It's not like they're people. Think about how much money all that mineral under the tree is worth.
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According to the movie, it takes like 5 years to get to Pandora, so there will be new civilians and mercenaries landing for awhile. So, sequel.
Muppet King:
--- Quote from: usmcnavgeek on 31 Dec 2009, 15:59 --- Say what you will, but Cameron does have some serious attention to detail.
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Except the part where the oxygen poor atmosphere feeds flames.
Or the part when the Colonel is on fire and the flames go out when he moves to an oxygen rich environment instead of causing him to practically explode.
Or the part where an oxygen deprived brain suffers no consequences.
I'm sure there were more, but it's been a while since I saw it.
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