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4 Sep 2024 21:23:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wow!  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 24 Dec 2009 01:38:48
Message: <op.u5fjevdhufxv4h@xena>
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:56:15 +0200, Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom>  
wrote:

> Chambers wrote:
>> Unfortunately, movies like Avatar still stand out enough from the crowd  
>> that they can wow audiences despite being rubbish.  I predict that  
>> Avatar will be to Cameron's career what the prequel trilogy was to  
>> Lucas'... he was given complete freedom, spent years pursuing his  
>> vision of perfection, and  ended up turning out a golden turd.
>>
> Someone else pontificating on something they haven't seen, based on  
> nothing but their own annoyance at other people's prior work. I just saw  
> it today.. CG was seamless. And I mean completely seamless. Its  
> impossible to tell what, if any, or even if all, was done live, even the  
> stuff that its impossible to have been live, with *very few* exceptions,  
> and even those are hard to pin down. The story, is very good, as far as  
> I am concerned, not some choppy bit of whatever, stitching the effects  
> together.
>

I agree on the CG - as I said it was beautiful. To me the story was just  
OK, but the beautiful scenery made up for all that.

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-
"The spoon is not real"


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