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haha I watched it like 3 weeks after it came out. And I've seen pocahontas AND dances with wolves, contrary to what some LOSER believes here hehe.., so yeah other people already said it. The only good sequel I can think of off the top of my head is rush hour 2.

The reason why sequels are horrible is because the producers are now in it for the milking, first time around they try to do an honest job.

i wasn't really talking about the fact that hurt locker won, i haven't seen it, i was more talking about how they just announced it out of no were with no build up or anything, i do notice they were 30 minutes over schedule but i mean shit. If they just got rid of all those shitty dances and shit in between it would have been fine.

Elvis Gratton 2 is the best of the series

lol I didn't expect avatar to win big. The storyline was too cruddy. The only reason why it was so highly regarded by people was because it made $1 billion+ and the CGI. But thats pretty much all it has to offer.

Yeah, but that shouldn't deem it "best movie of the year."
Everything you have named, average acting, plot holes, cliches etc are all present in Avatar. The only + was the effects, and the worst part was that it was 2.5 hours long, with SO much unnecessary scenes, it was ridiculous. If a movie can't be analyzed to the point that you already know what's going to happen next, it deserves no nominations, or oscars in the sense of best movie.

haha yeah I sound so harsh about avatar, let me rephrase that. It was a good movie, I liked the CGI. Its just that the hype about it and everyone going like "its gonna win best picture zomg" is just very very poor expectations.

i thought it was bull that sandra w.e a award from the blind side

Rush Hour & Elvis Gratton,both awesome. Although I think I just saw the 3rd Elvis Gratton.(The one where it start when they are camping and he's looking for a girlfriend or something).

Third one is the worst out of all of them.

I have the movie I, II, III boxset + my life/ma vie. The teleseries and second movie are the best.

lol nobody says that reviewing a movie is like grading a paper. And nobody nitpicks at little things like "she should have cried harder". wtf?

You say that you don't care about "grading" a movie, but the truth is almost everyone does it, because if everyone goes into the theater with your kind of attitude then we're going to have shitty movies all the time. Public and critic demand for good movies is why directors try hard to make good movies and thats why you get those amazing ones every once in a while like shawshank redemption, titanic, star wars 4, etc. People want to see these kinds of masterpieces, thats why there is so much critique about movies.

The storyline is probably the most important part of the movie and thats what avatar lacks. Personally I think avatar made that insane amount of money because of the CGI and public bandwagon. Everyone dances around saying that avatar is amazing and philosophical, etc but when the party's over people will realize how juvenile the whole movie was presented. But you have the right to your own opinion.

I didn't think anyone would take my paper grading comment literally. I thought it was pretty obviously that I was exaggerating the situation. I know that they don't make statements exactly like that but they do make statements similar to, "XX crying wasn't believable." which is no different from what I said depending on the action given.


No they don't. If they did, movies like Transformers, The Matrix Trilogy, Spiderman Triliogy, wouldn't be blockbuster hits. People go to movies to be entertained though it seems you have a hard time understanding that. The majority of the people who go through the whole grading thing are critics. I'm not saying that the people who go watch movies don't critique a movie while watching it but they don't do it nearly as in depth as these critics do.

Wrong. If you want a good movie with today's audience, just toss in a bunch of explosions, fighting, bullet time and you've got a "good movie." Or better yet, bring back some old comic book hero/cartoon and make a movie out of it and you've got a "good movie." No one listens to critics. They're fickle.

And the great thing is that it's all opinion based. None of the movies you listed are masterpieces to me.

That's your opinion and it does have a story. Just not a story you may like. The story was great IMO.

How can you say Avatar is a good movie when you say the most important part of a movie is the story which you claim Avatar lacks? Despite you stating otherwise, it seems you're in the same category as McLovin, hating Avatar, though you're masking it.


When the party's over people are still saying the same. That it's amazing and philosophical. Public bandwagon and CGI alone isn't going to get you to make 1bil+. I was hearing people talk in theaters saying that they had seen it multiple times. That is what gets you that large figure. Making a move so good that people want to see it again and of course the ticket pricing helps as well. But I'm sure when the movie is released on DVD and you see the DVD sales, you'll see that I'm right.

maybe the "public bandwagon" is just people who first watched it telling their friends/family to go watch it as well because they liked it?
To me, the movie was entertaining, the storyline was good even if it was "based" on Pocahontas or w/e. obviously it could have been better,as any movie could be. the entertainment part is the whole point of a movie, and it delivered for me.

btw, which movie do you think shoulda won best picture? just curious.

^I guess the reason why I seem so anti-avatar is that I'm a big proponent of creativity. Its a good movie, I enjoyed the CGI, I've already said that. All that DC superhero junk and recycling stories in recent movies have been pissing me off, especially when the same old storyline is plastered onto a movie again and again, especially such a horribly cliche one as the cowboy vs. indian theme as evga described it.

I honestly couldn't say which should have won best picture because I don't really care and more importantly I haven't seen hurt locker.

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lol that was great.