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[Solo4114]

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I don't know if I'd go THAT far. It's a great film that only works once per viewer. Maybe twice if you bring someone else to see it. There are other, in my opinion, better films of the nineties out there. But that's beside the point. Main point: expectations can ruin your experience of a film unless they're really low.

 

[CTF]

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I don't know if I'd go THAT far. It's a great film that only works once per viewer. Maybe twice if you bring someone else to see it. There are other, in my opinion, better films of the nineties out there.

As I've said before, great films keep on giving. That show is no different.

There are other, in my opinion, better films of the nineties out there.

I was never really a Con Air fan, myself.

 

[DrStranglove]

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:thumbsup

The best film of the '90s.

YES!!! I totally did not see the ending of it coming at all!

 

[The Stig]

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Where in this film, you knew what was going to happen. In fact there was never a point in the film that you didn't know what was going to happen.

 

[AT-AT Luvah]

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So you knew Sigourney Weaver's character was going to die?

You knew that Neytiri would save Jake with an oxygen mask?

You knew it would be Neytiri, and NOT Jake who would kill Quaritch?

You knew that the method for Na'Vi symbiosis was through tendrils in their tails?

Please enlighten me how on even well-versed cinema goers would know all of the above in advance?

Hector

 

[CTF]

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You knew that the method for Na'Vi symbiosis was through tendrils in their tails?

Nobody could see that coming. :eek

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

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So you knew Sigourney Weaver's character was going to die?

You knew that Neytiri would save Jake with an oxygen mask?

You knew it would be Neytiri, and NOT Jake who would kill Quaritch?

You knew that the method for Na'Vi symbiosis was through tendrils in their tails?

Please enlighten me how on even well-versed cinema goers would know all of the above in advance?

Hector

I'm gonna field this one. Now, remember, I liked the movie. It was a pretty good movie. I WILL own when it is released for private consumption.

Yes, I could tell where that battle was going and that she would wise up when Jake passed out during the battle. I also knew that Jake would be brought out of his "dream state" somehow and have to face the big baddie as Jake and that would be the result. I frankly got tired of Colonel Holds-His-Breath always being bailed out like that.

I knew one of the two, Weaver or the Geek, was going to die somehow. How else were they going to establish the means for Jake to be transferred, full time, to his Na'vi body? Honestly, did you NOT go into this movie knowing they would make him "not human" at some point?

While I liked the movie and will very likely see it again, the story was predictable.

 

[The Stig]

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So you knew Sigourney Weaver's character was going to die?

Yup.

You knew that Neytiri would save Jake with an oxygen mask?

Yup... And once they tried to do the "data transfer" with Dr. Agustine's body, I pretty much knew that was going to happen with Jake.

You knew it would be Neytiri, and NOT Jake who would kill Quaritch?

I knew Lang's character would die at the hands of one of those blue goblins.

You knew that the method for Na'Vi symbiosis was through tendrils in their tails?

That was just f-ing weird and not important at all to the story's arc.

Please enlighten me how on even well-versed cinema goers would know all of the above in advance?

Any person with a (well functioning) brain would be able to deduct where the story was going.

Keep in mind I didn't hate the movie, I just found it very, very cookie cutter.

kthxbai

 

[saxe coburg]

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So you knew Sigourney Weaver's character was going to die?

She didn’t die… she was uploaded into the fiber-optic tree of life while a hord of blue african-Indian-american hippys chanted. :lol

 

[GF]

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I really enjoyed this movie, Top notch suff!

Even though it's over 2:45 long I'm sure alot of stuff had to be left out for the theater, I wouldn't be surprised to see a extended version on Bluray, the picture quality will be refference material, can't wait for the bluray release.

GFollano

 

[CB2001]

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Back in the summer of `82, a number of critics faulted John Carpenter's version of "The Thing" because it wasn't "E.T." That sort of comparison was dumb then, and it's dumb now.

Yeah, but "E.T." not only ruined John Carpenter's "The Thing"'s chances at succeeding at the box office. It also ruined "Blade Runner"'s chances at being a success at the Box Office as well, because all three movies were released at the same time.

 

[The Stig]

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I guess the thing I took away from this movie is that it's okay to rape a dragon.

 

[CTF]

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:lol

Ha!

 

[SmilingOtter]

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As a corollary, if you rape the biggest dragon on the planet, people tend to listen to what you have to say.

 

[DrStranglove]

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As a corollary, if you rape the biggest dragon on the planet, people tend to listen to what you have to say.

And that! I did like...!

"If your the baddest flying thing there is, why look up?"

...was pure genius! and VERY Marine!

 

[EvilRocketeer]

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Avatar=2009 version of ferngully

 

[Nwerke]

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You knew that the method for Na'Vi symbiosis was through tendrils in their tails?

Everyone seems to be saying that, here and elsewhere. But it was their hair - their ponytails, wasn't it? Or did I dream that?

I want to see the original Na'vi design. You know - the one with four eyes, four arms, no nose, breathing orifices in the neck, no hair and a head tentacle instead of a ponytail. Like every other animal on the planet.

Except the lemurs I guess. That's a whole third vertebrate body plan right there. Strange, strange biology on this planet. It's a bit Greg Bear.

 

[Nwerke]

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I guess the thing I took away from this movie is that it's okay to rape a dragon.

And there's another thing you knew was going to happen. You didn't even have to wait for Neytiri to say "it's only happened five times before" to know Jake would eventually ride the big orange sod.

You knew the moment you clocked that it was similar to the banshees...

 

[CTF]

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I want to see the original Na'vi design. You know - the one with four eyes, four arms, no nose, breathing orifices in the neck, no hair and a head tentacle instead of a ponytail. Like every other animal on the planet.

I'd post it, but I want to keep religion off the boards.



And yes, they plugged into the Matrix with their hair.

"Woah..."

 

[niennumb1]

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Avatar=2009 version of ferngully

Not really....