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[threeplusfire]

We saw Avatar this evening. The 3-D aspect really doesn't do much for me, though it is less obnoxious than most of the 3-D stuff out there. But really, you should see Avatar because it is always awesome when someone manages to put something on screen they've loved for years, the way Cameron has with this story. The scenes in flight are beautiful, as is the landscape. Really, really beautiful. I'm glad I went just for the flying.

I think you'll read into it whatever issues you want to see. I've sort of come to that conclusion about a lot of things recently, from films to books and everything else. It makes me think of Nabokov, and how much he seemed to loathe Dostoevsky and Freud and certain critiques of his work.

My joints hurt. I think it must be the weather, the potential rain and the damp.

I think I'm going to have stop seeing stuff at the Alamo Village. The past few times we've been there, we've had problems with loud people talking and gibbering the entire movie. They might send someone over to say "keep it down" but they never, never do anything about it. Even the time some drunk blond bimbo was getting in my face. I really don't understand why people are such assholes. A movie theater is not your living room. They have a big screen that says "THIS THEATER IS NOW A QUIET ZONE - NO TALKING DURING THE MOVIE." How hard is that? Ugh. I do not understand why this is such a hard concept, or why that one theater does not live up to the policies of its brethren. (I've seen the Alamo boot obnoxious people at the other locations.)

Why does my yahoo account get so much Viagra spam? Seriously.

Comments

[horosha.livejournal.com]

I used to enjoy special effects a lot more as a teenager. Now that I'm older... meh. I'm more interested in story and characters. I look at Avatar as a kind of gateway movie: a tech-demo for future filmmakers to tell stories that were impossible before Avatar came along.

[alainn-sorcha.livejournal.com]

I often wonder at a lot of behavior that seems so simple to me but that others just don't seem capable of doing. I have decided that people really are just that selfish. They don't want to choose between silence and respect or that funny joke or that text message. But the fact is that once you're above the age of, say, 10, that's just tough fucking shit. You have to fucking pick one, and if you pick the wrong one, you deserve to reap the consequences.

Also, I don't expect to see Avatar. I don't care about effects and every review I've seen says the plot is pretty thin.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The plot's about the same as most other movies along these lines - I think if you saw Ferngully as a kid, you're fairly covered. It is just amazing visually though, and the work that went into that can make me forgive some clunky dialogue. We're sort of jaded these days in terms of what technology can do to make movies look pretty, and watching this recaptured some of that wonder for me.

[eroticcakejob.livejournal.com]

Dude. You should tell Tim League that the Village wuses out on the no talking policy.
I bet he would make some changes.