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El Destructo:
I told you it was Awesone Jesse...it's the Only Movie....that My WIfe ever said that She wanted to stay and watch it again..... ;D
medicinewheel:
I've watched it 5 x's so far; 3 times on the net and twice at the movies.
Spoke to my buddy in Australia this morning (evening his time), he is not much of a movie goer and he just came back from watching it the second time.
I might give it another go with some friends sometime soon...
Dane:
Can anyone address the story itself? I ask this as I started looking around, and heard the film fails on numerous levels. Everyone who reviewed it says it is technologically stunning, but the acting was dismal, the characters were cardboard, the storyline has massive plot holes, it's jingoistic and racist, and the technology Cameron uses is just eye candy to hide the lack of substance. The stuff the evil humans are trying to steal is called unobtanium. Yikes.
Cameron also seems to be cultivating some myths about himself. One is that Titanic was the biggest grossing movie of all time. That was either Gone With the Wind or Birth of a Nation. Birth of a Nation played in theaters in the south for decades, so I tend to think that is probably true.
I will rent this when it comes out later on DVD, so maybe it is as great as some say it is. But a film with sucky dialogue flops as a story to me. Titanic was aweful in a lot of ways, but it did look pretty, even if the script was wretched. For pure dialogue, Inglorious Basterds was brilliant, and the cast was amazing. And any movie Hitler is killed in has to be good :)
Dane
Hillbilly:
The plot was predictable, I knew pretty much what was going to happen before halfway through the movie. The characters were pretty stereotypical. Borrowed a lot from Dances With Wolves and Dinotopia. But the setting and visuals were more than impressive enough to carry a predictable movie and keep it interesting. 1000x better than Titanic. Haven't seen Inglorius Basterds yet, but I like most of Terrantino's movies.
mullet:
Dane, I just read in USA Today that It is really 23ird on the list compared to value of money at the time and the amount of people viewing it. Gone With the Wind is number one.
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