RobBright 35 Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Anyone seen District 9 yet? Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 ohhhh! I wanna see that one! Link to post Share on other sites
r45 4 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Yes that looks interesting. So does that Mega Shark one Snakes on a plane without the hype and Mr Jackson? Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Tatantinoman film? I'll probably dislike it as much as most of his others. Mr Pretentious. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 saw the District 9 trailer. It's very Transformer isn't it? Hate for it to be a rip-off Link to post Share on other sites
yamayamayama 2 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Better Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Hadn't heard about that one - but it sounds really good. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Getting AWESOME reviews - and according to imdb.com NOT being released in Japan. WTF?! Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Does look like fun. A like a good quality alien movie. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 when was it out? Been looking at the "coming soon" entries here and it is not on there. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Release dates: Australia/New Zealand: August 13 North America: August 14 United Kingdom: September 4 South Africa: August 28 Hong Kong: October 8 Japan: Never Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 wooo hooo we won! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 DVD then. Or some other means. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I even tried that D9 MNU simulator. It was rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Avatar is at least an interesting idea/event What would it be like to travel to another world? It's a question that's occupied film-makers ever since French director Georges Méliès shot Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), inspired by the works of Jules Verne and HG Wells, back in 1902. Scores of directors have followed suit, but their efforts have often been hampered by an inability to depict alien landscapes realistically. The best efforts - the early Star Wars films, or Joss Whedon's recent Serenity, worked out that the most effective way to show planets millions of miles from our own was to shoot in earth-bound landscapes which themselves look other-worldly (north African deserts, mostly). With Avatar, 15 minutes of which was screened to audiences today around the world, James Cameron has dared go one step further. The film is a rare, madly ambitious attempt to not just show, but to immerse cinema-goers in an alien landscape. And judging from what I saw on screen earlier today, Cameron has pulled it off spectacularly. Instead of looking like a far-flung corner of our own world, the lush, verdant planet of Pandora is like nothing we have seen before. The plant life here is shockingly unearthly, while the inhabitants appear to have followed a completely different evolutionary path to those we are used to; the sentient ones are sleek, ten-foot tall, blue-skinned creatures called the Na'vi. Our hero, however, is human - for a while, at least. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is a former marine paralysed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Given access to a Na'vi body, which he pilots remotely from an orbiting spaceship, he is sent to Pandora by the military, 100 years nthe future. What he doesn't realise is that he may be part of a covert strategy to investigate the planet's potentially lucrative natural resources (there's a global warming agenda to Avatar, no doubt). There's a moment in the footage I saw this morning, just after Jake has been rescued from a pack of baying, canine types, by a radiant, dread-locked Na'vi lady (who appears to be the flick's romantic interest) when he looks around and takes in his surroundings for the first time. And it's here that Cameron is most successful - not in the action sequences, which are admittedly remarkable and make excellent use of 3D, nor in the superb scene onboard the spaceship in which Jake's brain is first fused with his alien body. I felt completely immersed in the sublime, bizarre beauty of the Pandorian rainforest, both comforted by its warmth, and unnerved by its inherent perversity. And that, certainly, is tribute to the 3D work - the dripping fronds almost seem to lick your face, the humidity makes you feel you should be perspiring. But will it have the narrative warmth and humanity to transcend its geeky space opera roots and reach out to a wider audience? There has been much hope that the film would follow in the vein of Cameron's last fiction film, 1997's box-office megalith, Titanic, whose enormous success was partly down to appealing to both genders. Avatar, thought it does bear an uncanny resemblance in parts to the early Star Wars films - in particular Return of the Jedi, with its scenes on the forest moon of Endor - still looks to me like a film with a certain type of man in its crosshairs. "I think it was good; I didn't think it was mind-blowing," says Joanna Davison, a 28-year-old technical director from Kilburn, and one of the few women who attended this morning's screening at the BFI IMAX in London. "I think girls will probably go and see it with their boyfriends, but I'm not sure it's this big romantic epic. They don't seem to be marketing it on the story, they seem to be marketing it on the 3D. But it will definitely appeal to kids." Student Ali Jawad, 20, from Kingsbury, meanwhile, thought the footage was "very impressive', although he also thought the CGI was "a little blurry at times". He added: "It was nothing like as bad as Transformers though. You could definitively see what was going on. I'll certainly be back to see the film - I'm a big fan of James Cameron, but I'm not sure it should be judged in the shadow of Titanic. It's a completely different genre." The full version of Avatar doesn't arrive on UK screens until the winter, so there's still plenty of time for Cameron and his team to consolidate the hype required to justify the $250m plus budget. Today's screenings were a big part of that, but the jury remains out on whether Avatar will revolutionise cinema and cinema-going habits in the way Cameron has suggested. Ultimately, no matter how caught up audiences are in the 3D world of Pandora, they'll also need to feel involved in a romance between two big, blue Thundercat-type creatures, one of which is being controlled by a wounded squaddie. This could yet turn out to be Cameron's greatest challenge. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 that is a nice write up. Hope your fingers don't hurt Bag. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Avatar too - hopefully should be better than Titanic. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Feeling pretty sore but will manage, thursday - don't need them for the beer tonight. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I bet I end up preferring Titanic. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Titanic suck tits. It was just full of it. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 It had lovely music though. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 kinda pointless movie.....everyone knew what happened in the end Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 and they milked every second of it. Hell, I was forced to see it twice Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I know someone who went to see Titanic 14 times at the cinema. Mad as a bag of plucked feathers. Link to post Share on other sites
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