The Toymaker Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Avatar. JP effects are iconic but characters were awful and kids so freakin annoying I wished Rex ate them. I was bored by that movie to be honest. It`s a classic but, yeah, kids really grated and I`ve never been a fan of R Kelly Goldblum. The kids were really annoying. I'll give you that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb007 Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 No contest.Jurassic Park. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Is there a film that has a kid that NODOBY thinks him or her annoying? My guess would be The 6th Sense, or Home Alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Is there a film that has a kid that NODOBY thinks him or her annoying? My guess would be The 6th Sense, or Home Alone.These come to my mind:HUGOLEONCinema Paradiso...Not many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toymaker Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 The kids are not annoying in Spy Kids 3D: Gameover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Take your Stallone goggles off Algren, they were awful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Alfred Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I don't see the point of the thread to be frank, for me it's not even close to a debate, JP > Avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatebox Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Jurassic Park, obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Jurassic Park, easily. A far superior blockbuster, and this is coming from someone that saw Avatar four times in theaters. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nAlkaline Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Avatar. Watch JP again. I think it's another case of nostalgia overriding the truth. It's a decent film, but the sense of wonder it once held is gone. Beneath the amazing VFX (for the time), it's really not that great of a movie at the filmmaking level. Same applies for Avatar, but it at least still blows my mind with the ridiculous visuals presented. I actually tried watching JP a week ago...couldn't get through more than an hour. Differing tastes, I guess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 The more I watch Avatar, the more boring it gets. Visuals add nothing to it for me.Jurassic park is hugely entertaining and it has one of the most iconic soundtracks of all time. There's no other 'dinosaur' film like it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acab Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Avatar for me. But i like Jurassic Park too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toymaker Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Take your Stallone goggles off Algren, they were awful. But if you're able to watch the film at all, then the kids are fine. It's not a case of Jurassic Park, where the kids can be tolerated because the other visuals and story is good. In Spy Kids 3D, if you hate the kids, you don't watch the movie, because they are the movie. I can watch Spy Kids 3D perfectly well, so the kids are not annoying at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 It is a difficult decision. These are not the best movies of each one. Cameron is a good "showman", but nothing more. And, in my opinion, Jurassic Park is not in top 10 of Spielberg's films. I do not say JP is a bad movie. I like it, but I prefer another Spielberg movies. I choose Avatar. I think it is not as bad as many think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accursed Arachnid!™ Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 JP...easily. Avatar, while technically brilliant, just had a feeling of been there, done that, even though it was original per say, it didn't feel original. JP was an experience that felt new from beginning to end. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatebox Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Avatar. Watch JP again. I think it's another case of nostalgia overriding the truth. It's a decent film, but the sense of wonder it once held is gone. Beneath the amazing VFX (for the time), it's really not that great of a movie at the filmmaking level. Same applies for Avatar, but it at least still blows my mind with the ridiculous visuals presented. I actually tried watching JP a week ago...couldn't get through more than an hour. Differing tastes, I guess.My prolbem with Avatar has always been the uncanny valley effect - my brain can never quite process whether it's watching live-action or animation and it detracts from getting into the story.Onc could argue with both Avatar and JP that the plots were merely vehicles for the special effects, but I think the moments of atmosphere JP does manage to capture surpass anything in Avatar. The first T-Rex appearence, for instance, still looks and feels great today. Edited October 7, 2012 by Hatebox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toymaker Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 I think it's another case of nostalgia overriding the truth That has happened to me a lot, but in this case I think it's not present, and even if it is, what of it? Nostalgia is just as much a part of enjoyment in a film as is the plot or characters. I enjoy Jurassic Park because it's not only a great film but it reminds me of a time when I really enjoyed going to the movies, and one of the rare times I was with my mum. But in terms of nostalgia changing a perception of a film, well that has happened to me on occasion and when I return to a film years after first watching it, it's not usually as good. On the flipside, I have watched movies when I was about eight years old, like F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley, and they were wasted on me, but watching them as an adult, I loved them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 More people are only voting JP because its older. Like avatar, it's not a great film. Ill go with avatar as it is slightly better. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toymaker Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 More people are only voting JP because its older. Like avatar, it's not a great film. Ill go with avatar as it is slightly better.Perhaps it's a better film for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accursed Arachnid!™ Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Oh, I'm definitely swayed by the fact that JP came out in my movie going prime. But if you want to throw another technical marvel(of its time) in there that was before my prime then it would still be eons better.Star Wars>JP>AvatarDo I see Avatar holding up like SW and JP? The easy answer is no. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
