A photo from the set of "Avatar"....

I think it's funny how some people seems to know this movie will suck before they've even seen it... I'm also sceptical with regards to this movie, but I will reserve judgement until I've seen it myself.
The rest of you pre-cogs can keep up what you're doing ;)
 
I think it's funny how some people seems to know this movie will suck before they've even seen it... I'm also sceptical with regards to this movie, but I will reserve judgement until I've seen it myself.
The rest of you pre-cogs can keep up what you're doing ;)

No one here is saying definitively that it will absolutely suck 100% without a shadow of a doubt,
just like yourself, im doing the sane thing and reserving proper judgment until i've had the chance to see it, whilst in the mean time expressing a "hunch" that the film is likely to be visually pleasing but weak on content.

no pre-cogs here unfortunately :)
 
I heard it's shit and not even as visually impressive as it was supposed to be. I never bothered to go see it in the big theaters in 3d, and you just know it's one of those movies that you just don't watch if it isn't playing in a huge movie theater in 3d...
 
I saw it yesterday and thought that it's pretty good and the 3d stuff worked very well with this movie.
Watched a few movies in 3d and most of them there like "oh dude, you know what? this wood look cool in 3d, and that, let's make a movie out of it."
but for Avatar I had the impression that they were more like "ok, we have this story and I think it would be cool in 3d".

I hope you get what I mean.
Yeah I know the story isn't something new, but it's not playing in the 1900 in the wild west.
It's in the future on a fucking planet called Pandora, I don't ge all that bashing.
 
Yeah I know the story isn't something new, but it's not playing in the 1900 in the wild west.
It's in the future on a fucking planet called Pandora, I don't ge all that bashing.

sound familiar?

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James Cameron finished the first "concept" script for Avatar in 1994, Pocahontas was released 1995.
He started playing around with the idea already in the 70's(Creating the people and the world from one of his mothers dreams.).

Also.. James Cameron has been pretty open with what books/movies that inspired him: At Play in the Fields of the Lord, The Emerald Forest and Dances With Wolves.. combine those and you have avatar.

Still epic similarities though! ;)
(Yet grossly oversimplified.)