Comments on: Breakdown of Avatar costs

By: ldyw

ldyw — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:09:50 +0000

ok avatar was kinda been there done that but it was preeety and in 3d…seriously !!!! i don’t here ne one comparing Step it up to…well any other dance movie…Y…cuz noone saw it

By: Shann

Shann — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:24:40 +0000

Finally somebody else see’s it…
This is why Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are so much better.

By: TripleMMM

TripleMMM — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:05:46 +0000

I want an AMP suit, a Samson, and all the Na’vi killed. I will then have made
Avatar 2: 5X As Much Awesome Human Crap.

By: alaina

alaina — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:31:16 +0000

every single romantic comedy has the same plot.. they keep making money

By: Citteh

Citteh — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:39:20 +0000

The script may have been but the book had not. You are thinking only of the Disney movie which is not the first Pocahontas made by any means.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:59:15 +0000

But Avatar isn’t fun or intellectual. It’s a boring movie with a stupid plot.

By: metaltothedeath

metaltothedeath — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:15:20 +0000

Am I the only one who saw the Pocahontas(sp?) essay with a few words switched to fit Avatar?

By: gemasach

gemasach — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:33:32 +0000

it might be true but Avatar is still an awesome movie

By: merting

merting — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:20:55 +0000

What’s the point of having fabulous, overworked, astonishing 3D effects when you have a crappy plot? I mean if I really want to watch an FX Porn, Demoscene is always there.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:08:39 +0000

Did you have a point somewhere in there?

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:41:40 +0000

Just because you watched it and liked it doesn’t mean that everyone has to watch it. Seriously, grow up already.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:36:46 +0000

Not just one out of three villains…the MAIN villain out of three villians. In my opinion, one of the biggest problems with Spiderman 3 was that the movie focused equally on each of the villains, which meant that none of them was really fully developed. In the Dark Knight, I think the Joker is the main villian that the movie mostly focuses on, and then there are other minor villains. That’s what makes it better than Spiderman 3, at least to me.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:56:42 +0000

I really liked it. The plot wasn’t original, the characterizations were overblown, and THE FRICKIN 2-D SNAPSHOTS ON THE FRIDGE WERE IN 3D FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON! but I liked it anyway. It was a spectacle. A beautiful spectacle. And the leads weren’t bad actors. And the dialog (most of it) didn’t make me cringe. I’d watch it again. It was worth the ten bucks.

By: ethanorg

ethanorg — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:43:09 +0000

I think they wasted 1/4 of their budget on glow in the dark plants.
even if the plot wasnt recycled Pocahontas and it was just a coincidence, it was still a silly movie.

By: Gin

Gin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:19:25 +0000

The 1993 argument is getting old. Just because it was original in 1993 doesn’t mean it is now. And, because it was released now, not in 1993, it is something it can be criticized for. Cameron could have made changes to it in that time, but he chose not to, and therefore can be criticized for it. The movie did have a classic, overused plot and George Lucas quality dialogue. However, it was a feast for the eyes.

By: Meoiswa Twang

Meoiswa Twang — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:38:25 +0000

OMG i was JUST GOING TO WRITE THIS (Wow thats one hell of a expensive photocopy of Pocahontas script) xD good thing i used control+F first

By: machyak

machyak — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:47:41 +0000

if you thin the matrix was original you should read satre (existential philosipher, 1920s), watch metropolis (fritz lang, 1930s), and read white noise (gibson, 1980s) and probably millions of others. the matrix was just another bad hollywood sci-fi xerox. and as for avatar? don’t get me started – beautiful but stupid.

By: quincey

quincey — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:26:12 +0000

actually dances with wolves is 15$ and pocahontas is 10$ so…

By: TGF

TGF — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:59:59 +0000

Plot=/=script.
Not that the script was that great, anyway.

By: TGF

TGF — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:57:25 +0000

You clearly have no idea how difficult it is to produce a full length film using 2D animation.
Do you realize that for a single second of film, you need about 24 frames? And in 2D movies, each one of these frames must be hand-drawn? That means 1,440 frames need to be drawn for a single minute of film. Multiple that by 90 minutes, and you end up with over a quarter of a millions frames (129,600 to be exact). ALL done by hand.
Backgrounds, midgrounds, foregrounds, characters, coloration…all these (and more) must be done over and over and over again and done consistently. It takes patience. It takes talent.
It’s a lot more complicated than “drawing faces,” something a person obviously raised on today’s CGI dribble wouldn’t understand.

By: coralineripley

coralineripley — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:47:22 +0000

I hadn’t seen the things it was a rip-off of…. just goes to show that everything has basically already been done….

By: coralineripley

coralineripley — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:41:36 +0000

Not all, but it’s close enough for it to be possible that the scriptwriter didn’t know about a few….

I’ve been wanting to see Gran Torino for awhile.

By: coralineripley

coralineripley — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:37:34 +0000

Was Ghost in the Shell even released in America? I’ve never heard of it….

By: coralineripley

coralineripley — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:35:55 +0000

I haven’t seen Total Recall…. well, I guess there really hasn’t been much originality in Hollywood for awhile.

By: zombie victim

zombie victim — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:25:49 +0000

I would love to hear what you think of foreign subtitled films.

The fact that you will avoid a movie just because of the font it is subtitled in proves you can’t rationally view a movie at all.

By: zombie victim

zombie victim — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:22:07 +0000

Except better.

By: DanneMM

DanneMM — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:20:58 +0000

Dude… its a really good movie. sure the plot is not THE best but what script is?

By: p.h.

p.h. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:30:51 +0000

I’m amazed at how many people are saying that the movie’s visuals eliminate the need to think.
It’s a movie about aliens.
If you want to think, you’re in the wrong theater. This movie is entertainment, nothing more.
Go see Gran Torino or Diner if you want an intellectual movie. Or, you know, read a ******* book.
If you want visual entertainment (which, need I remind you, movies were invented for), then pay 10 bucks to see Avatar.
There is a tradeoff between intellectuality and fun in movies. You can’t have too much of either.
The closest I can think that had both is probably Star Wars.

By: p.h.

p.h. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:27:41 +0000

So you think theft is okay as long as you steal from people with money? That makes no sense. That’s like only stealing homework from kids who didn’t copy it.
Seriously, the makers earned that money, and if stealing it wasn’t a big deal, the movie industry would be dead and there would be no DVD’s to pirate.
You douchebag theif.

By: p.h.

p.h. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:24:57 +0000

Except Pochohantas…and Ferngully…both follow the native female, not the settler male… and I don’t think either of those movies have as many minor characters as Avatr…oh, and their ******* ANIMATED!

By: p.h.

p.h. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:22:56 +0000

Well, that means neither script was aware of the other. Also, Cameron was waiting for the C.G.I. to get better.

By: p.h.

p.h. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:21:24 +0000

Yes, it wasn’t original, but it wasn’t cliche. I don’t know why people even want plot… it’s about aliens sexing humans that look like aliens…just watch it and shut up…

By: p.h.

p.h. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:18:40 +0000

Wow, one out of three villains…
Also, everyone complained about the development of hte villains in Spiderman 3, but NO one complained that the only villain in Dark Knight that had any buildup was the one that didn’t need decelopment?

By: p.h.

p.h. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:14:41 +0000

Even though the Pochohantas script was invented AFTEr the Avatar one…geez, guys…

By: Xer

Xer — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:43:10 +0000

and ‘splosions, can’t forget the ‘splosions

By: Poodleinacan

Poodleinacan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:35:11 +0000

You miss the actors.

By: PTL

PTL — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:44:20 +0000

Apparently James had a incredibly elaborate plot worked out, but Executive meddling forced him to boil things down to fit within the timeframe of the movie.

By: R3

R3 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:14:09 +0000

Graph dude fails are proportions too.

By: R3

R3 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:12:58 +0000

I never saw Pocahontas. I can’t recognize something I’ve never seen.

So, HA! I laugh in the face of your logic! HAHAHA!

By: Daone

Daone — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:07:35 +0000

Fern Gully was nothing like avatar asshole

By: yarly

yarly — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:42:14 +0000

Ha! Nihilism.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:55:58 +0000

So you’re saying it resembles…white men interacting with Native Americans? Wow, that sounds a lot like Pocahontas!

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:52:18 +0000

If the script of Avatar was written so many years before it was actually turned into a movie, what makes you so sure that the same isn’t true of Pocahontas?

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:49:55 +0000

The plot was not original when it was written, and yes, I realize that it was written in 1993. It has been a cliché since long before that.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:46:31 +0000

I don’t see the point of making a movie that’s only good in theaters. Although I’m sure the people who really love the movie will buy it on DVD anyway.

I felt the same way about the latest King Kong. I saw it in theaters, and the main draw of it was how big and dramatic everything was on the theater screen. But on a TV screen, I didn’t think it was very good.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:41:38 +0000

The Joker isn’t tied in to Bruce Wayne’s identity. He’s only connected to Batman.

By: Anne Onymous

Anne Onymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:45:24 +0000

What I want to know is, how do they expect us to believe that piracy is having any significant effect on the industry” when every year, more and more expensive movies are being made?

If they can afford ~$500 million for one film, it makes me wonder if they would really miss my $15-$20 if I were to copy a DVD.

By: p.h.

p.h. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:05:59 +0000

Pleasedon’tknitpickusium

By: p.h.

p.h. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:04:46 +0000

Audible sigh…
It’s a movie. About aliens. Having sex. With people.

If you want the meaning of life, you’re not gonna get it.

By: p.h.

p.h. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:03:42 +0000

Yeah. Why can’t the chicks wear one bra cup?