OPEN THREAD: Are People Actually Excited About Avatar?

December 17th, 2009 admin

I’m torn on the Avatar issue. While I plan on seeing the movie anyway, thus making the following deliberation moot, I’m still trying to make sense of exactly what to expect when I walk into that theater (seven hours early, cause that’s what everyone does in this stupid city). On one hand, the reviews are pretty unanimously positive , the praise itself has been borderline superlative from some circles (”It’s gonna change filmmaking so much, this is literally the first movie ever made!!”), and James Cameron , though he hasn’t made a blockbuster in a while, really…


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