I've never seen Titanic. Looked a bit chickflicky to me. As for Avatar? When "the guys" and I last went to a movie the trailer for this brought a collective "ugh". Seriously, it looks like unrestrained treacle.
Reading an article in the New Yorker about James Cameron made him seem like meglomaniacal whackjob and his dialogue sounds like it was carved out of wood.
I am VERY watching this movie. I'm so grateful for this maniac fanboy. Cameron's sick. The technology he invented for this movie is sick. I will probably see it in IMAX more than once. I've seen footage with the IMAX and the 3D glasses and could not breathe during the flying/waterfall scenes.
Cameron is a wacked out kind of directorial genius, but let's be clear: he didn't invent shit for this, or any other, movie. The nerds he hires (ILM in the past and now Weta) do all the heavy lifting. You think Cameron knows his RenderMan from his Blender, man? (Trust me: that is funny to nerds.) He is no more of a technological innovator than an erect penis is a woman, dilated to 10cm and screaming obscenities.
Quite right. And I definitely don't mean to take anything away from Weta and the heavy lifting. "Invent" is a careless term and I will be amped to see the DVD bonus features for the people responsible for the visuals. They're also sick. But let's be all the way real. Whose head's on that block if this movie bombed? Weta solo wouldn't get shit greenlit or distro'd so as far as I'm concerned Cameron's doing the pushing and wombing the gestation. The nerds are the swimmers here and RenderMan's just the running man without your man.
I wish they'd stop calling Titanic "the all-time box office champ" without adding "in today's money" because Gone With The Wind made gazillions back when you could go to the movies for a nickel and still have change for a malt and a hand job after.
Titanic is at the top of the highest-grossing movies worldwide, but I don't think inflation is factored in (or even that older movies are considered.) Gone with the Wind did make the most domestic (U.S.) bank, adjusted for inflation.
i will not see this movie. i would, however, see a movie called avatar that was about people's internet avatars coming to life and meeting for a drink, or maybe several drinks.
Avatar is opening in the UK today, and screening for critics in New York right this very moment, and so far? People are freaking out.
When Rotten Tomatoes gave "Wanted" a 72, that's when I closed the tab, so to speak
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wanted/
When Rotten Tomatoes gave “Changeling†a 61, that’s when I closed the tab, so to speak
Thanks to Andrew Pulver of the Guardian, it's down to 92% positive. That's all I need to know.
Yiff fetishists are more numerous than previously thought.
I've never seen Titanic. Looked a bit chickflicky to me. As for Avatar? When "the guys" and I last went to a movie the trailer for this brought a collective "ugh". Seriously, it looks like unrestrained treacle.
Reading an article in the New Yorker about James Cameron made him seem like meglomaniacal whackjob and his dialogue sounds like it was carved out of wood.
'Abyss' is kind of rad though.
but no, I will not see this film.
Life's abyss and then you dive!
Curious how the right will react to the sermon it's preaching. Drudge is pushing it so far but I wonder if he's reading what he's linking to.
I am VERY watching this movie. I'm so grateful for this maniac fanboy. Cameron's sick. The technology he invented for this movie is sick. I will probably see it in IMAX more than once. I've seen footage with the IMAX and the 3D glasses and could not breathe during the flying/waterfall scenes.
Autocinematic asphyxiation?
Still, pass. It's scifi for vaginas.
Oh, without saying anything, you are wrong to pass.
my vagina resents that remark.
Cameron is a wacked out kind of directorial genius, but let's be clear: he didn't invent shit for this, or any other, movie. The nerds he hires (ILM in the past and now Weta) do all the heavy lifting. You think Cameron knows his RenderMan from his Blender, man? (Trust me: that is funny to nerds.) He is no more of a technological innovator than an erect penis is a woman, dilated to 10cm and screaming obscenities.
I laughed so hard I dropped my Wacom stylus right into my tube of wasabi peas!
Awe. Some.
Quite right. And I definitely don't mean to take anything away from Weta and the heavy lifting. "Invent" is a careless term and I will be amped to see the DVD bonus features for the people responsible for the visuals. They're also sick. But let's be all the way real. Whose head's on that block if this movie bombed? Weta solo wouldn't get shit greenlit or distro'd so as far as I'm concerned Cameron's doing the pushing and wombing the gestation. The nerds are the swimmers here and RenderMan's just the running man without your man.
I want to see him go "small" for his next picture. An Art Film. Maybe something with G.I. Joes and Tinker Toys.
As Choire (or Balk?) once said,
"I am going to see the shit out of this movie."
I wish they'd stop calling Titanic "the all-time box office champ" without adding "in today's money" because Gone With The Wind made gazillions back when you could go to the movies for a nickel and still have change for a malt and a hand job after.
Titanic is at the top of the highest-grossing movies worldwide, but I don't think inflation is factored in (or even that older movies are considered.) Gone with the Wind did make the most domestic (U.S.) bank, adjusted for inflation.
Now I want a god damned eggcream.
i will not see this movie. i would, however, see a movie called avatar that was about people's internet avatars coming to life and meeting for a drink, or maybe several drinks.