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  1. Finally had a chance to see this after a densely packed December. It is quite visually stunning in IMAX 3D and I kept thinking there was no way they could top this scene, then they kept doing it again and again. It's mindblowing how seamless it looks all together but one thing really impressed me was the physics and the action sequences. Cameron just has a thing about making the action feel so kinetic and it really shows. It feels super impactful in this movie and easily craps on anything else with CGI action. Neytiri just killing things with those giant arrows made you feel every impact in IMAX and never got tired of that. I did notice a judder in framerate during HFR sequences but only once or twice. 

     

    Also Cameron paying tribute to Titanic and The Abyss in the last section of the movie was definitely a Cameron thing.

     

    It's too bad the story and writing was meh at best to the point I was kind of bored at the halfway point (thankfully the last act was enough). But it kind of makes sense since the Avatar series is more of a technology vehicle for him. I was also quite disappointed in the soundtrack since the only memorable bits were from Horner's soundtrack in the first movie. The performances were good. 

     

    Overall, the first movie I give a slight edge to. Well worth the cinematic experience.

     

    The Navi sized oakleys gave me a chuckle.

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  2. Finally had time to see this. Was shocked at how poorly paced and edited the movie was. One scene they suddenly teleported into a tent from the moon with zero transition. Lots of scenes were obviously cut. Also did we seriously need yet another movie of how Thor rediscovered himself? 

     

    Film spends a lot of time desperately trying to hide from the darker themes and instead gets overloaded with a lot of poor jokes. 

     

    Basically to sum up the plot, Thor leads an army of child soldiers to defeat a man who lost his daughter and was looking to destroy the people at the very top; elitist Gods. 

  3. I thought it was an enjoyable film, but definitely not one of Pixar's greats. Feels like a Pixar short film with an idea that had to have it's plot stretched to fit a whole movie. Evans does a good job, but his character lacks the fun flavor from the main Toy Story movies. Peter Sohn did a fantastic job and easily steals the show. Some great visuals. 

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  4. I finally had some time to see this. I enjoyed all the scary elements and Raimi stuff plus the brutal fights but the writing was def problematic.

     

    "I'm not a monster, I'm a mom" :hahaha:

    Also no Vision in any of the other universes, just her kids? Seriously? And the biggest difference they could think of for a different universe was apparently red and green lights being flipped. 

     

    It's getting very obvious in this movie the heroes', and Wong's in particular powers scale by what plot element they need to fulfill. When Wanda made him give up the location of the tower by threatening 4 unnamed sorcerers after him saying she could control every universe I had some extreme eye roll there. 

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  5. 2 minutes ago, 21C said:

    What did you think of the fight scenes?

     

    Feels like right amount of kinetic brutality and interestingly sometimes restrained. I mean I enjoyed them so I don't know what else big words I can use to describe them lol. They didn't feel hard to watch? They're cool? Sure. 

     

    I love Nolan's films, but I admit his fight scenes in the Batman trilogy are shot very awkwardly sometimes, especially if it involved CQB.

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  6. Gotta single out Pattinson here. If you've seen him in The Lighthouse or his other filmhis excellent performance won't really surprise you. He does a great job of showcasing his two personas much like the previous Waynes, but he feels like a man stuck in a horror show and has to figure his way out of the darkness, but while being consumed by said darkness. I do remember a few comments when he was casted that he was not right for the role (absolute bullshit by the way if you've seen his acting chops before) but he stands out in this. Feels like a new perspective on Batman in a way not really explored before in live action big screen (though there's some animated Batman films that also explores some of the themes here). 

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  7. 3 hours ago, Hatebox said:

     

    I'm not excited because I'm sure this film won't write them interestingly, but the original characters were a huge part of the first film's magic.

     

    Certainly I'd be more interesting in this movie if Pratt and Howard just weren't in it at all.

     

    Are you not excited for more scenes of Pratt holding his hand up at a dinosaur dramatically?

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  8. Well that was a movie that I watched.

     

    I can see what they were going for....but it was also trying a little too hard to explain the sequels. A lot of exposition that gives you the impression it was added to explain this or that rather than flow in the story naturally. Excellent performances from everyone and some interesting visual work. Not as much action as you'd expect. I have mixed feelings atm. 

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