Comments on: Benheck.com Podcast Episode 67

By: dimogoblin

dimogoblin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:40:52 +0000

best review of avatar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLXlgkxrcuM&feature=player_embedded

By: Matias

Matias — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:51:12 +0000

Critics love Avatar because most of them aren’t gamers. Avatar, from the aesthetics to the story to the pace looks (or should I say plays) more like a video game than a movie. I mean, glowing forest? Check. Floating islands? Check. story that could be written by a 6 year old? Check.

By: Benheck.com Podcast Episode #67 | Video Game Trader Magazine

Benheck.com Podcast Episode #67 | Video Game Trader Magazine — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:27:53 +0000

[...] discussing the most revolutionary, woodenly acted, game-changing, generically plotted, astounding movie of all time AVATAR! [...]

By: xot

xot — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:04:08 +0000

That intro is the very definition of awesome. Bravo!

By: Metallica Man X

Metallica Man X — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:13:26 +0000

Hey, fun fact! My youngest bro (who’s a fan of both transformer movies) went to see avatard….and he FELL ASLEEP during it! LOL! He also felt upset that people who were supposed to be the bad guys lost…Just thought I’d add that cause when he told me that, it cracked me up XD

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:49:48 +0000

Totally agree with you guys on Avatar. That movie should have ended with the humans killing off all the blue cat people. Also why didn’t they use the nerve shit in their hair when they had sex?

By: Dreamwriter

Dreamwriter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:17:20 +0000

I read that they indeed did film Earth scenes but they were cut because it was felt the movie was too long for a 3D movie (Cameron prefers to cut an entire scene than go through making little bits shorter here and there). There were apparently also other big scenes cut for the same reason, including showing how Sigourney Weaver started up the school and some big hunt that the main character went on.

And Cameron has said the Blu-Ray will have an extended version with stuff put back in, both on Earth and on Pandora.

By: benheck

benheck — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:15:34 +0000

Maybe the success of “Avatar” shouldn’t be surprising. I mean, “Transformers 2″ was a terrible movie filled with battles and destruction and it made $400 million. Simply God-awful, I thought it couldn’t be as bad as the reviews said, I was wrong.

“Avatar” is a very competent (yet totally unoriginal) movie filled with battles and destruction so I guess it’ll make more? Not like people read reviews anyway (see “Transformers 2″ gross) but word-of-mouth.

Still, it’s like picking out the best looking turd in the bowl.

By: hossrex

hossrex — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:21:04 +0000

There are a lot of movies every year where the characters are perfectly photo-realistic with 100% lifelike movements.

Those movies feature “actors”.

It’s odd that some people would be so enamored as to give a recommendation to a mediocre movie simply because the computer effects are finally BEGINNING to crawl out of the Uncanny Valley.

By: Twin/Tone

Twin/Tone — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:35:59 +0000

Ben, I concur on the puzzled feeling I get from the critics reaction. The critics seem to be saying that we should just ignore the story because of the pretty colors. One, without a good story its a tech demo, secondly, why does Avatar get off when they seem to deride all the other special effects demos? At least if you are going to proclaim someone should go see a film because its shinny, let it not be one proclaiming its the second coming. Die Hard is a great example. All Die Hard is and claims to be is an action adventure/special effects roller coaster. At least it is honest about what it is. I believe you and Jones touched on that talking about Transformers 2. The really sickening part is guys like Roger Ebert compared Avatar to the original Star Wars. Yes, that was a recycled story, but it was Lucas’ intention to retell the classic hero’s journey.