AVATAR (2009)** (out of four)(Dances with Thundersmurfs?)

http://filmfreakcentral.net/ ^ | Dec 2009 | Walter Chaw

[Maelstorm]

[RightGeek]

LOL Walter - don’t hold back

[Maelstorm]

Dances with smurfs on SouthPark

http://video.mail.ru/mail/mcgregor-ne/1218/4629.html

[autumnraine]

Dr. Grace= Good Guy
Parker Selfridge= Bad Guy
“General Greivance” LMAO!

And the best of all;
“Unobtainium-seriously—if you’re that committed to being retarded, why not call it “Cantgetitanywhereium,” or “Itsrareium”

[qwertypie]

I don’t patronize Hollywood movies or TV. Never. Period. Any freeper that does is a liberal enabler.

[Maelstorm]

LOL

[NavyCanDo]

“Dances with Thundersmurfs”

LOL. Good movie or bad you got to love the alternate title.

[Red Badger]

That was exactly my thought when I saw the previews.................

[Maelstorm]

Well I’m torn on that one. I think if we shut ourselves out of the market we will guarantee movies like the Passion of Christ, Fireproof, Facing the Giants, or even movies like The Lord of the Rings and the Lion the Witch and the wardrobe. Hollywood even though it pretends to be above capitalism thrives on it.

[strider44]

One thing I don’t understand is how many people on this site just love to root for a movie to do badly. They want this to bomb because Hollywood is evil. I don’t have a dog in the fight either way. I probably won’t see this movie beacuse I rarely see movies and have to go to ones my wife agrees to see on the rare occasion we have a night away from the kids.

SF/Fantasy is not her cup of tea, although we did see The Lord of the Rings trilogy and she enjoyed that. My point is, who cares if this movie does well? How would that effect your life? Isn’t a movie making a billion dollars good for our struggling economy?

The same can be said when Mel made Passion of the Christ. All kinds of left wing loons wanted that movie to tank. Of course it made a ton of money. Isn’t that a good thing?

So see this if you want, or don’t. I don’t understand tearing the guy down. Cameron took the risk to make this and that’s what Capitalism is all about.

[Bean Counter]

WTF??

“...it’s probably the best Cameron can do with regards to discussing the Native American genocide...”

(ahem)

IT’S A FRACKIN’ FANTASY MOVIE, WALTER!!

Honestly, what the hell does this guy expect? It’s obvious he hates James Cameron on a very primal level, and it’s hard to believe that anyone can get this worked up about a frickin’ movie.

He probably bitched about “Ironman” when it came out because the colors clashed on his armor.

I doubt he approved of the Hobbit’s foot-hair in any of the LOTR movies.

He probably just hated the fact that Bruce Willis wore a “wife beater” t-shirt in “Die Hard”.

My wife is taking Friday off so we can catch the matinee of “Avatar”. It promises to be very entertaining, and we do not intend to try and view it seeking solutions to the US Economy, the Iran v Israel conflict, the Zimbabwe financial crisis, or how to free Roman Polanski...

sheesh!

[jimbo123]

[Landru]

"My wife is taking Friday off so we can catch the matinee of 'Avatar'. It promises to be very entertaining, and we do not intend to try and view it seeking solutions to the US Economy, the Iran v Israel conflict, the Zimbabwe financial crisis, or how to free Roman Polanski..."

LOL!!!!!!!!
Amen.

[Sudetenland]

Hollywood (or wherever they produce them these days), always hammering you over the head with their message:

corporations, military, America, Christians = Bad

"indiginous people," hippies, communists, atheists and Muslims = good

Really really tired of their crap.

Last night's episodes of NCIS and NCIS-LA followed that Muslimes good, Christians bad pattern.

I'll probably borrow a copy of the movie just to see the special effects and simply ignore the messages, but it really is getting old being treated like a five-year-old by a bunch of elitist idiots.

[Maelstorm]

I just thought the review was entertaining. lol Enjoy the movie. It did remind me of ferngully. It is unfortunate that so much money was spent on a shallow liberal story line that could have been spent feeding the homeless or paying down the national debt. ;-)

[Landru]

Walter?
No disrespect intended, honest.
You're an insufferable boor.

[GBA]

I think what people here want to fail is the political and propaganda message movies like this one. In this, other than being more subtle Cameron is not all that different from Michael Moore or Inconvenient Algore.

Personally, if I'm spending my money I prefer to simply be entertained. When "the message" is more important than the entertainment, I enjoy seeing it fail than I do seeing it.

[thefactor]

Not to be prudish, but you might want to put a language warning next time.

[Maelstorm]

I don’t plan to see it and here are the reasons. If you can’t come up with a better name than the stupid inane one “Avatar” which just happens to also be the name of an anime cartoon then no amount of money can save it. I don’t want to encourage that behavior. This is clearly a throw enough money at it deal. I am a big fan of the first two Aliens Movies but I’ve just not been impressed with a lot of Cameron’s stuff. I didn’t go to the movies to watch Titanic though I did watch it and it was ok. This movie has the feel of a Kevin Costner boondoggle and appears to be just another example of Hollywood self important largess. The worst part is there are so many classic sci-fi/fantasy stories and worlds that deserve to be brought to life and instead we get this crap? I’m sure it is beautifully done but it still doesn’t make it worthwhile.

[Safrguns]

I ROFLED on the “ThunderSmurfs”!...