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I went to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra yesterday! We try to see it every year. This year they decided to add digital screens to the performance (because lights, fire, fog, rising platforms, snow, etc, wasn't enough). It didn't really add anything, but it didn't ruin it either. Except when the screens showed a bunch of helicopters, for absolutely no reason as far as I could tell... Eh, it was still an awesome show.^^ After seeing Avatar and Sherlock Holmes, this was kinda the point where I started ODing on awesome. I'm gonna have to go watch something seriously mediocre now. Just to maintain my grip on reality. Laterz!
~Mindy
I went to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra yesterday! We try to see it every year. This year they decided to add digital screens to the performance (because lights, fire, fog, rising platforms, snow, etc, wasn't enough). It didn't really add anything, but it didn't ruin it either. Except when the screens showed a bunch of helicopters, for absolutely no reason as far as I could tell... Eh, it was still an awesome show.^^ After seeing Avatar and Sherlock Holmes, this was kinda the point where I started ODing on awesome. I'm gonna have to go watch something seriously mediocre now. Just to maintain my grip on reality. Laterz!
~Mindy
posted by madsniper at
6:13 PM
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Trans... Siberian... Orchestra?!! And you see it every year?!! Damn, girl, I'm so envious of you, my skin is turning green!
I did get to see Avatar, though. Twice. o.o;; But I wanted to see Holmes as well.
If you want to watch a really crappy movie to offset the awesome, may I suggest Six Angels? It is completely horrific and I felt my brain cells dying...
I saw Avatar in 3D, and man was it ever good the second time.
I didn't get to see Holmes though, what was it like? Ho would you rate it? ?/10
If you're interested, might I suggest getting the Art of Avatar book? I purchased it and it just arrived yesterday; I can just feel my brain melting with all the awesomness packed in there.
Avatar was absolutely awesome, though the story was rather canned/unoriginal, and Cameron used far too many cliches, including some rather negative messages (such as "omg technology and 'western-ish' society, including everything that made this film, is teh evil and should be shunned!" cliche message). That said, the story was surprisingly good for a high-budget Hollywood lightshow, and a lot of the details were fairly well thought-out.
Ultimately, though I still love the romping adventure of the movie and plan to see it in IMAX 3D at least one more time, I'm annoyed by the movie as much as I love it. The story had so much potential, but they had to make the villains cartoonishly villainous, with no real motivation for their villainy other than their own villainousness ("Hi! We're greedy corporate employees, and we're going to abuse the native savages because we're greedy corporate employees and have absolutely no moral compunctions what-so-ever! ^_^"), the na'vi were presented as absurdly good 'noble savages', and while their concept of the interconnectivity of life is a good one that should be emphasized, they were painted as a wholly good race who had given the evil corporate humans no reason to dislike them other than being technologically primitive and in tune with nature. Their dislike and distrust for the 'sky people' was completely justified within the movie, and they never acted beyond that, even in an understandable (and believable) emotional rage/hatred that would blind them to reason. Their only fault was refusing to leave their ancient and sacred home without a fight. There were no na'vi villains, or even imperfect na'vi. Hell, even Tsu'Tey, Sully's na'vi rival for didn't do much or preset himself as any serious antagonist (sure, he was ready to kill Sully, but he'd never liked or trusted the guy, was facing an impending overwhelming attack on his home after the destruction of a sacred place, and just learned that Sully had been there to pass information to the enemy all along - beyond that, there was no real antagonism or challenge from the character). The na'vi were also just as smug and arrogant as the corporate humans, expressing little interest in learning the ways of the 'sky people', considering them child-like imbeciles, despite their several-orders-of-magnitude-superior technology, and the fact that they had traveled there from another star system; they considered the 'sky people' just as much 'savages' as the corporate humans believed them to be. What really gets me about the na'vi, though, was their inherent lack of curiosity. They already knew everything important, and had nothing more to learn from the 'sky people', and I never saw any expression of curiosity about where the 'sky people' came from, how they got there, their technology and equipment, etc. Played very strongly into the "Mother Nature provides us with all we need or need to know, and anything beyond that is just destructive and bad" message the movie was heavily leaden with (which, as a sci-fi enthusiast, Trekkie, and inherent optimist, is very disappointing for me).
But, yeah, my gripes about the over-used and mentally-closed and regressive cliches (and unexpectedly long-windedness
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Llithi Dragon, Loved the comment and fully agree with the long statement *grins* and I also was wondering about Holmes and would also like to go see avatar again in 3D but I do not think I ever will. I also second the envy of Madsniper for the Trans Siberian Orchestra every year.
a really horrifyingly terrible movie. dark floors. ugh so BAD
Thanks, Qrylor, though the name starts with an I and not an L (common mistake, and why I hate sans serif fonts, with a vengeance).
@tobikuma:
Were you talking about Avatar or Holmes?
If you want a bad movie, watch Eragon. If you want a WORSE movie (Yeah, I know, hard to beat out Eragon), watch Frantic, starring Harrison Ford. Worst movie in existence.
Eragon makes me cry... So much potential, they wasted it by blowing all their money on an uber combat scene at the end that wasn't even anywhere close to the book...
Dragonheart remains the only mainstream Hollywood movie featuring dragons that is any good at all. That makes me even sadder...
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Saw Frantic, found the disinterest and apathy of the authorities to be rather less than believable, but didn't find it any more outlandish than a typical hollywood action-thriller infected by the 80s.
DRAGONHEART! @_@ I LOVE DRAGONHEART! <3
It's very gratifying to see another fan of an old movie. The only downside is that I only have it on VHS. T_T
Good grief... Dragonheart is old?!?!!? I remember when it was new... Dragonheart isn't old. Old is affros or black-and-white.
Damn good movie, though. Great VFX, and a great story, a rare combination in Hollywood.
I LOVED Dragonheart. XD I thought I was alone!
Yay, Dragonheart! Owning it on VHS is better than not owning it at all, in my case.
Well, Dragonheart came out just five years after I was born, so maybe it just seems old, cuz I first watched it as a little kid.
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