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Including the "beat you over the head" ending? I really like The Abyss, but the extended ending is weak and unnecessary. It's as if he decided he wanted to make an entire movie like the ending of the extended cut of The Abyss, and made Avatar. I have ALOT of problems with this film, but I enjoyed seeing it in the theaters in 3D. If people can see it in 3D, I recommend that they see it. I just feel let down by Cameron; I expected much more out of this film.

How can you hate Titanic? Kate Winslet is in it!

LOL, right. Which is why I've seen every movie he's done besides his first two (Piranha II and The Terminator) in the theater during their run, and have them all on DVD. Clearly, I hate the man.

I don't see how you could, Cameron beat that dead horse into glue and pulp.

I found the base message to be "Humans are bad, you should feel bad about being one." It was so heavy handed, so beat you over the head with it... ugh.

None of these numbers impress me. Adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind is still number 1 all time at the box office. 3D ticket prices inflate Avatar's take even more.

From Joystiq.com: Really, James? This is the kind of crap from Cameron I was complaining about earlier.

I agree. Watching Haruhi does not allow me to travel through time or transmute sticky-notes into dollar bills.

That pretty much sums it up right there. You strip away the 3D effects, and it's a movie that's not even really worth buying on DVD. Not sure I'd stop to watch it if it were on cable. The 3D effects are perhaps the sole reason to see it.

^ This

Considering how mediocre his first idea was, I don't have faith in him continuing the story.

They still make those? It comes out 2010.

PC?

Blade Runner deals with environmental destruction and the rights of living creatures far more effectively and intelligently than Avatar.

Well, if it's as good as the first one, I'm looking forward to losing hours of my life running around killing stuff with a lightsaber again.

I'm a moderate/independent sort of guy, but the amount of beat you over the head self-hate in Avatar is suffocating.

Avatar What... too soon?

Apparently he doesn't.

Good luck with that. No Star Wars game has ever had dismemberment (not counting the console codes used for JKII and Academy).

Reading some of the well thought out reviews of Avatar is really starting to change my opinion on this movie. I think there is a bit of the Phantom Menace effect going on here with me. I came out of the theater thinking, "ya, some stuff bugged me, but that was pretty cool." Then when you start looking back on it, the pretty picture you painted of the movie for yourself starts to deteriorate. I've knocked my review down to 3/5 Stars (down from 3 1/2). Pray I do not alter it further.

I don't think you can honestly review this movie if your only experience with it is some cam recorded bootleg. I'd suggest spending less money on drugs and more on movie tickets if you want people to listen to your opinion.

Hot damn, son!

Haven't read any reviews yet or any of this thread, but I just came back from seeing it and I wanted to post my thoughts. The movie is basically Dances With Wolves on the Solaris planet. Its good, but not great. Its very predictable, but I am not sure that really detracts from the experience. It took a bit for me to get used to the 3D, but I would wager seeing it presented normally would not do the film justice. I am not sure the special effects would work as well if not for the 3D. Speaking of the special effects, I was impressed by the magnitude of the effects but not the quality. CGI characters and locations look no better than they did a decade ago when Phantom Menace came out. They can just do more of them. I am sure this will get the kind of undeserved Oscar attention The Lord of the Rings trilogy did (hopefully the Academy won't make the same stupid mistake twice). So anyway, its a good movie, but not great. I expected more from a movie that spent so much time in development. edit: 3 out of 5 Stars.

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