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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Quote Originally Posted by sleepyhead View Post
    You know what? That's what I was thinking about Avatar...if they just wanted to mine the planet, just nuke the inhabitants, take what they want and leave. Not like the miners had morals in the first place anyway...
    The miners did have morals, the administration didn't want to kill the natives at first because it would been bad PR at home, there was a few lines that was said in the first 30 minutes that said as much.
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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Never watched Avatar because it struck me as being over hyped ****e from the outset.

    And I can agree with you on Inception, thoroughly average. There were a few moments when it started getting good, but overall pretty mediocre.

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Inception seemed to me like they were rushing to cram too much into an already long movie and ended up not explaining much. You could say it's because I'm slow and a pleb, but I spent too much time trying to work out why they were doing one thing when they had already moved on to the next. I think it was a good idea but badly directed so the story wasn't told well.

    It's been a while since I watched it, but I think one of the problems in the plot was that they never really explained why they could go into other people's dreams, or whether it was widespread in this alternate reality, or why they needed an architect to design the dreams. I never really worked out the significance of the Japanese guy or Robert Fischer.

    I like movies where I end up with a good idea of what happened, but Inception just flashed through a lot of different places without going anywhere. I suppose it's because there wasn't a particularly obvious beginning, middle and end.

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Inception I enjoyed, despite becoming horribly obvious how it was going to unfold...

    Avatar on the otherhand is breathtakingly beautiful cgi-wise, but it was game over for me as soon as they decided to call the mineral "unobtanium"... possibly the most retarded name ever for a mineral ever - especially when theyre mining it, thus its hardly 'unobtainable'.

    I actually face palmed in the cinema, much to the delight of the people around me

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    Avatar had no story at all, very much predictable. Only reason it was so great was because of the outstanding CG and how it was integrated into the film. The actors were so terrible, it was like some B-film plastered with amazing CGI and interracial romance.

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Thought Avatar was absolute tripe from start to..well half way through i couldn't stand it any longer..Inception was pretty good i thought.

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    I hated Avatar; you could have run Cheyenne Autumn through a blue filter and had pretty much the same thing going for you, with the difference that at least it would have been a John Ford movie.

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Quote Originally Posted by IronWarrior View Post
    The miners did have morals, the administration didn't want to kill the natives at first because it would been bad PR at home, there was a few lines that was said in the first 30 minutes that said as much.
    I was being facetious. Still, having bad PR doesn't equal morals. Just means they are creepy slimy goits.

    Quote Originally Posted by vrykyl View Post
    Inception I enjoyed, despite becoming horribly obvious how it was going to unfold...

    Avatar on the otherhand is breathtakingly beautiful cgi-wise, but it was game over for me as soon as they decided to call the mineral "unobtanium"... possibly the most retarded name ever for a mineral ever - especially when theyre mining it, thus its hardly 'unobtainable'.

    I actually face palmed in the cinema, much to the delight of the people around me
    LoL! I forgot that was the name of the mineral. Thanks for reminding me of the terribly funny name.

    Quote Originally Posted by KidChameleon View Post
    Inception seemed to me like they were rushing to cram too much into an already long movie and ended up not explaining much. You could say it's because I'm slow and a pleb, but I spent too much time trying to work out why they were doing one thing when they had already moved on to the next. I think it was a good idea but badly directed so the story wasn't told well.

    It's been a while since I watched it, but I think one of the problems in the plot was that they never really explained why they could go into other people's dreams, or whether it was widespread in this alternate reality, or why they needed an architect to design the dreams. I never really worked out the significance of the Japanese guy or Robert Fischer.

    I like movies where I end up with a good idea of what happened, but Inception just flashed through a lot of different places without going anywhere. I suppose it's because there wasn't a particularly obvious beginning, middle and end.
    That is true, there was no obvious beginning, middle and end. It was a film that was just "there". I think they explained why you needed an architect, about how the "invading person" shouldn't know the layout as to...affect the other person's dream with there own personification (????). It's been a few weeks since I've seen it now and to show that it was a drab movie, I've forgotten most of it.

    Ahh well...at least Unstoppable was a nice rollercoaster, even if Hollywood embellished the story, changed the location and didn't mention the third "hero" guy...

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Avatar was def not worth the publicity...

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Quote Originally Posted by g8ina View Post
    I loved Avatar, but then I loved Dune too - see any similarities ?
    I love Dune.

    I saw Avatar the once, thought very little about it and will probably catch it by accident when it's rerun endlessly on ITV2.

    I'd be interested to here what you perceived the similarities to be. Dune never sprung to mind as an Avatar comparison for me.

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    avatar was a amazing big let down....

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Inception I enjoyed, despite Avatar is a fantastic to watch

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    Personal taste is a funny thing i love both these films got them on Bluray

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    Re: Avatar and Inception - Let downs

    For me, they were both really REALLY good. Of course, the ideas behind aren't new but who cares, they were very nicely done, entertaining etc etc. I dont't understand why some people did not enjoy them.

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