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I watched Avatar in 3D like I watch all 3D movies, staring at a blurry screen because watching with the glasses on hurts my eyes.
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May 9, 2022 18:00
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Avatar's 3d effects were good for the 10 seconds or so that they used them for atmospheric stuff like sparks and particles in the foreground but got pretty bad when they tried making space dinosaurs pop out of the screen.
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May 9, 2022 18:05
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Truman Peyote posted:the 3d didn't really work for me when i saw it in the theatre. but that was the case with almost all 3d movies. i remain convinced that the only movie that was ever improved by 3d technology was jackass 3d Fair assessment
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May 9, 2022 18:16
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Ya avatar actually did a really good job with the 3d iirc, granted that was like 15 years ago or however long. Looks pretty stupid but as has been said it is James Cameron so it'll be entertaining at least (probably)
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May 9, 2022 18:42
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James Hong is getting a star on Hollywood blvd
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May 9, 2022 18:47
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I’ll wait for an actual trailer before making any judgements. it looks great but the Zero Dark Navi poo poo was laughable, maybe some context will make it less so
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May 9, 2022 18:47
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Mr. Crow posted:Ya avatar actually did a really good job with the 3d iirc, granted that was like 15 years ago or however long. avatar came out in november 2009, so just over 13 years on release day. practically prehistory e: my memory is wrong, it will be a few days short of 13 years haveblue fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 9, 2022 |
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May 9, 2022 18:50
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indigi posted:avatar is Disney? now that they own fox it is, but before that they spent a ton to transform a section of their park to be avatar land
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May 9, 2022 19:16
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Chris Knight posted:James Hong is getting a star on Hollywood blvd About time. What is he, ninety years old? And he's been in every movie ever made?
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qirex posted:had they not seen return of the jedi or ferngully? lmao
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May 9, 2022 20:11
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leo fong is getting a star on hollywood blvd
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TOOT BOOT posted:iTunes is having a pretty good sale on Star Trek TV right now, TNG and the remastered TOS are $29.99 each, for the complete series strange new worlds seems okay from the pilot. i kinda use my wife as a trek barometer (since she works in tv and i used to), and she fell asleep on it, which is about par for mediocre-to-bad trek. she also couldn't get through the voyager premiere four times after pushing for us to watch it (because it's the most popular, apparently) until i decided i wasn't going to put up with janeway just so she could catch a nap. discovery was also sleep-inducing and we gave up like midway through season 3 because holy poo poo it is bad. still infinitely better than the horrified reaction we both had to picard though. jfc, patrick stewart is too old to be wasted like this i really don't get what the writers are doing. everything seems to be babbys first television script
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May 9, 2022 20:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj2b0swdpX8 I only watched a couple of S1 but at least half of these look good aesthetically.
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Beeftweeter posted:i really don't get what the writers are doing. everything seems to be babbys first television script
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May 9, 2022 20:54
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Introduced my MiL to Terry Pratchett. She'd never read any fantasy before and accidentally got one of the wee free men books but loved it anyway and has read a bunch of the main series now too.
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Chris Knight posted:Mike from RLM said it best, imo: the writers are playing the telephone game and that's how the scripts get written. it seems worse than that though, there's literally next to no consistency in action or motivation and characters frequently proclaim "I AM FEELING LIKE THIS" or "just in case you're a loving goldfish here's why we're doing x" literally the only piece of new-trek i thought was genuinely good was the short treks ep "calypso", and unfortunately they went nowhere with the setup
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May 9, 2022 21:04
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avatar being hugely successful while having no memorable part is to its credit, one of the last big movies before every scene had to be micro-optimized to make a good clip to post online.
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May 9, 2022 21:06
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people are paying attention to avatar 2 because this will be the third time that james cameron shepherded an insane grandiose passion project to completion against all objections and common sense and the last 2 times he did it it became the biggest box office draw in history
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May 9, 2022 21:09
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i thought snw do 1 was pretty good. imo most of the treks old and new are about on par except for picard for being bad and lower decks for being surprisingly good
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May 9, 2022 21:21
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mediaphage posted:i thought snw do 1 was pretty good. imo most of the treks old and new are about on par except for picard for being bad and lower decks for being surprisingly good lower decks is unfortunately pretty uneven but "i, excretus" should be required viewing for trek fans.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:avatar being hugely successful while having no memorable part is to its credit, one of the last big movies before every scene had to be micro-optimized to make a good clip to post online. avatar's novelization, dances with wolves, is extremely memorable avatar is bad
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Truman Peyote posted:the 3d didn't really work for me when i saw it in the theatre. but that was the case with almost all 3d movies. i remain convinced that the only movie that was ever improved by 3d technology was jackass 3d this is a fair assessment, but also into the spider-verse was incredible in 3d
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May 9, 2022 21:32
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mediaphage posted:i thought snw do 1 was pretty good. imo most of the treks old and new are about on par except for picard for being bad and lower decks for being surprisingly good (most trek shows take a while before they find their feet - if they ever do) i liked it quite a bit - a lot of work and money was spent on the production design (and it showed), lots of easter eggs for horrible old trekkies (dr. mbenga! a saladin-class destroyer!), and the plot was as comfortable as a broken-in shoe
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NoneMoreNegative posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj2b0swdpX8 i thought s1 was ok but s2 was bad. luckily ive lowered the bar for poo poo all year so i'll still watch this garbage
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FMguru posted:it might be the best first episode of any trek series encounter at fartpoint is really not as bad as people make it out to be, and the cage is a classic. emissary has some weird directorial choices but it's mostly watchable; caretaker is unalloyed garbage moving on, the vulcan hello was interesting but the resulting season was disappointingly dumb. lower decks' first ep almost made me ditch the series e: beyond the farthest star is good for what it is. Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 21:48 on May 9, 2022 |
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i agree lower decks ep 1 wasn’t great though i wonder if i’d like it now. i think i rank it so highly in part because i really really thought it was going to be just terrible and it isn’t at all
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mediaphage posted:i agree lower decks ep 1 wasn’t great though i wonder if i’d like it now. i think i rank it so highly in part because i really really thought it was going to be just terrible and it isn’t at all yeah, same, i'll probably reevaluate at some point when i'm bored but if memory serves the second season is a massive improvement over the first by ditching a lot of the "lol look it's this thing from that show loool"
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i finished utopia. disappointing that they didn't make any more but i don't know what else they could've done. not going to bother with the american version which got canceled after one season instead of two.
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Watched the 1st episode of that Mike Meyers Pentaverate show and it's pretty mediocre. Powerful Love Guru energy.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Watched the 1st episode of that Mike Meyers Pentaverate show and it's pretty mediocre. Powerful Love Guru energy. lol i haven't seen a single even slightly positive review of that. strap in buddy
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one review said it was clearly a movie script chopped up into six half-hour episodes, so yeah, buckle in
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mediaphage posted:i agree lower decks ep 1 wasn’t great though i wonder if i’d like it now. i think i rank it so highly in part because i really really thought it was going to be just terrible and it isn’t at all
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Lower decks is really hitting the sweetspot that they got to in TNG and DS9: some corny episodes, some episodes are way too treacly, and then a bunch of good ones. The characters are interesting enough and there is a lot of really boring motivations that drive the episodes which seems to be what is missing from discovery and picard. It's fine if the episode is just some farmer making a bunch of holograms because he accidentally murdered everyone on his planet. not every plot needs to be trying to stop a galaxy wide calamity. I think moist vessel is a great example. It's not the best episode, the premise wouldn't be out of place in ds9 or tng (the captain of another vessel feels slighted, tries to swing his dick around and fucks everything up). It's not 100% attempts at jokes like the first few eps, and you get a random assortment of the crew doing things together.
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Beeftweeter posted:encounter at fartpoint is really not as bad as people make it out to be, and the cage is a classic. emissary has some weird directorial choices but it's mostly watchable; caretaker is unalloyed garbage lol i was trying not to forget a series and, broken bow was not good.
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Beeftweeter posted:lol i haven't seen a single even slightly positive review of that. strap in buddy https://www.avclub.com/pentaverate-review-netflix-mike-myers-1848889811 a B is positive, right?
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pseudorandom name posted:https://www.avclub.com/pentaverate-review-netflix-mike-myers-1848889811 well, now i have although it's kinda weird alot of the super annoying sounding things they highlight as positives were spotlighted as negatives in other reviews
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Beeftweeter posted:well, now i have I wanted to give it a chance because I like Keegan-Michael Key but it just wasn't appealing at all to me.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Watched the 1st episode of that Mike Meyers Pentaverate show and it's pretty mediocre. Powerful Love Guru energy.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I wanted to give it a chance because I like Keegan-Michael Key but it just wasn't appealing at all to me. i feel like the fact that mike meyers has had vanishingly few co-stars might be instructive here
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