James Cameron's 'Avatar' - The next gen of cinema

stoke1863 · 18 Dec 2009 at 00:21

Ive got an awsome day planned saturday.

I finish work at 12 and its traight onto the M6 with some mates to watch stoke vs Villa. Then we will mill about a bit and finaly go see avatar at the IMAX while we have the chance. Unfortunately its a later 11.30 showing.

we live in stoke so the best cinema we have is a standard vue cinema. None of us have seen a 3D movie or even an imax.

http://www.imax.ac/ImaxHomepage.asp?section=29

Is the above imax fairy decent? Tickets already booked at £9 each

AGD · 18 Dec 2009 at 00:27

stoke1863 said:
Ive got an awsome day planned saturday.

I finish work at 12 and its traight onto the M6 with some mates to watch stoke vs Villa. Then we will mill about a bit and finaly go see avatar at the IMAX while we have the chance. Unfortunately its a later 11.30 showing.

No we live on stoke so the best cinema we have is a standard vue cinema. None of us have seen a 3D movie or even an imax.

http://www.imax.ac/ImaxHomepage.asp?section=29

Is the above imax fairy decent? Tickets already booked at £9 each

Well if the tickets are already booked then it's a bit late to ask now lol.

It seems quite good although not as big as the bfi london one

The screen at Millennium Point, is 22 metres wide by 16 metres high. That is as tall as a five storey building, and as wide and 4 buses nose to tail!

stoke1863 · 18 Dec 2009 at 00:30

gah my typing skills - fail!

Anyway there is next to no chance any of us are travelling to London to see a film so it will probably do. 2BH we wont be hard to please as we are use to standard VUE and rubbish Odeon cinemas.

Lets hope stoke take 3 points to make the film less depressing!

sean · 18 Dec 2009 at 00:40

Chimerical said:
Its going to be expensive initially of course but whether it catches on is another matter.

I can see in-home 3D remaining the domain of the technophile for a wee while yet. A few people have already asked about the film and whether I "still had to wear those glasses" and I just can't see the family huddled around their nice new HDTV all wearing polarised or shuttered glasses.

stoke1863 said:
http://www.imax.ac/ImaxHomepage.asp?section=29
Is the above imax fairy decent? Tickets already booked at £9 each

Here are the details the LF Examiner have about the screen. It's a "proper" IMAX projector with a huge screen.

Format: 15/70
Film Type: 3D
Screen: Flat
Screen Size (HxW): 53.8 x 71.8 feet / 16.4 x 21.9 meters

stoke1863 · 18 Dec 2009 at 00:47

sean said:
I can see in-home 3D remaining the domain of the technophile for a wee while yet. A few people have already asked about the film and whether I "still had to wear those glasses" and I just can't see the family huddled around their nice new HDTV all wearing polarised or shuttered glasses.

Here are the details the LF Examiner have about the screen. It's a "proper" IMAX projector with a huge screen.

Format: 15/70
Film Type: 3D
Screen: Flat
Screen Size (HxW): 53.8 x 71.8 feet / 16.4 x 21.9 meters

Thanks for that. Im a proper noob with this Imax stuff. So i noticed my local vue have listed Avatar as Avatar3D. (i was not aware that my local vue even did 3d films) so whats the difference of the imax edition? Just simple bigger screen and sound?

Tee Hee Johnson · 18 Dec 2009 at 00:49

No loving the looks of this film, too much computer creaded stuff really annoys me.

eggyoke · 18 Dec 2009 at 01:23

craig_kennedy83 said:
No loving the looks of this film, too much computer creaded stuff really annoys me.

I was the same, then I watched it.

ZG002 · 18 Dec 2009 at 01:29

eggyoke said:
I was the same, then I watched it.

+1

It really is a beautiful film. I loved it.

Tom|Nbk · 18 Dec 2009 at 02:11

Watched this today with a mate, can only echo what people have said. It's a bit of a surreal experience in 3D and a couple of times I just smiled to myself at how breathtaking the pandora world is and how much the film takes you in, once again you need to see it in 3D.

Fantastic film.

ZG002 · 18 Dec 2009 at 02:17

I actually went to see it in 2D

..

But now at least I have the 3D one to look forward to lol. Will be going again in the hols with my mate.

Tom|Nbk · 18 Dec 2009 at 02:34

ZG002 said:
I actually went to see it in 2D ..

But now at least I have the 3D one to look forward to lol. Will be going again in the hols with my mate.

Another excuse to go again, I'm seeing it with the old man again tommorow

Naffa · 18 Dec 2009 at 07:26

Tom|Nbk said:
Watched this today with a mate, can only echo what people have said. It's a bit of a surreal experience in 3D and a couple of times I just smiled to myself at how breathtaking the pandora world is and how much the film takes you in, once again you need to see it in 3D.

Fantastic film.

Did you go and see it at IMAX?

Cosimo · 18 Dec 2009 at 08:20

Here come the reviews, from the Times this morning:

And yet, as Avatar progresses towards its three-hour climax, the viewer inevitably suffers from spectacle fatigue. The plot steals, too, become conspicuous. A bit of Minority Report here. Some Aliens there. And a tonne of Dances with Wolves over there. Worst of all, the sense that we are actually witnessing the future face of cinema — which seems to be a slightly crass, computer-generated salmagundi that celebrates technique over narrative originality at every juncture — is mildly depressing. Avatar, essentially, is a film we’ve seen before, boldly made to look like nothing we’ve seen before. It is truly the Star Wars of our age.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co...tainment/film/film_reviews/article6960298.ece

apatia77 · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:28

Almost all seats sold out for IMAX Wimbledon, I'm now thinking of going to see this at 11.40pm this Sat LOL late but plenty of seats available

sswats · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:51

I went to see it in 3D but ended up in a small screen. Still looked amazing, but forced me to pay attention to the story which i thought was really bad, generic and cheesy.

I See you!

NeilF · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:54

sean said:
Just out of curiosity, where abouts in the cinema were you seated? As this is our first 3D IMAX experience I convinced everyone to sit as near to the middle, about 2/3rds of the way back. I figure this is the best way to experience the 3D effect?

I should probably qualify my opinion with this: If you've got access to a truly huge IMAX screen with the proper sound setup then go for it. If you're travelling to a retrofitted IMAX with a marginally larger screen then not so much.

1/3rd the way back in the dead center...

NeilF · 18 Dec 2009 at 10:57

sswats said:
I went to see it in 3D but ended up in a small screen. Still looked amazing, but forced me to pay attention to the story which i thought was really bad, generic and cheesy.

I See you!

The story and characters were pretty dire. Plot and characters were too simplistic. Definately the weakest Cameron script I've ever seen!

*minor minor spoiler*
eg: I mean even Michelle Rodriguez (as the chopper pilot), when attacking the large craft, why not just sit next to it and blast the hell out of it, rather than over shooting infront it, stopping your attack and opening herself up as a target too!

daz · 18 Dec 2009 at 11:08

Really enjoyed this film.

Perhaps not the greatest story ever told - but it was a fantastic technical tour-de-force and it was still very entertaining.

NeilF · 18 Dec 2009 at 11:17

daz said:
Really enjoyed this film.

Perhaps not the greatest story ever told - but it was a fantastic technical tour-de-force and it was still very entertaining.

I concur! & hopefully a sequel will provide a deeper/better story line...

Clipsey · 18 Dec 2009 at 11:39

What's people's reviews having seen it in 2D (for some strange reason

) Like myself, most people have seen it in 3D.