http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moviereview/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:43:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418997/posts The Academy Awards have expanded the number of best picture nominations to 10, and the buzz on Planet Earth is all about "Avatar." Conservatives are enraged at the movie's anti-American, anti-military, pro-primitive themes, but they should understand that most spectators won't care what the movie has to say. They'll just enjoy the 3-D spectacle, fun in spite of politics. Adults ought to see it with a teenager. It's an expensive ticket that will be appreciated, and you can shape the discussion afterward. watched it with a precocious 14-year-old who has managed to escape the politically correct didacticism of education today.... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418997/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:43:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418906/posts 1 2 3 4 Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418906/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418132/posts It gained early success on the awards circuit, but the star-studded musical "Nine" will likely be pulled back from hundreds of smaller U.S. cities, after disappointing box office and lackluster reviews. After playing in 1,400 screens last weekend, the Weinstein Company, which is behind "Nine", said on Tuesday it expects the movie to play in 800-900 screens in big U.S. cities in coming weeks. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418132/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:55:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417976/posts Did you hear about “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”? I'll bet if you haven't that you soon will. Let me see if I can sum it up for you in two words, "monumentally bad". Wait, let me see if I can sum it up for you in one word, "Ishtar". Columbia Pictures and Director Marc Lawrence offer up the romantic comedy, “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”, which promise to be the kind of bad which continues being discussed years after its DVD copies have been moved from the discount bin to the ash bin. We're talking epic... Hollywood, STFU. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417976/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:30:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416817/posts         I remember The 80's. The Cold War was coming to a head. The Soviet Union saber-rattled and postured (in between swearing in new head's of state). America, helmed by a capable and unapologetic leader, was finding her feet after a season of malaise. The United Kingdom, itself helmed by 'The Iron Lady', stood a fast ally by our side. And the American and Worldwide Left, as usual, sniped at our heels with any undermining tactic which they could muster. The most memorable of these was the Post-Nuclear-War-Apocalypse movie. This Hollywood classic was The Left's attempt to convince the collective conscience... Hollywood, STFU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416817/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:55:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416812/posts It is a children’s film dragged out to 162 minutes Cinema history has been made in America. Box-office takings hit a new record of $275 million over the Christmas weekend, largely because of Avatar. Unless you have been living in a small cave, or perhaps on Pandora, the planet where the film is set, you cannot have missed the Avatar marketing campaign. Every billboard and bus is sporting a picture of a blue fella with a yellow eye. Every newspaper has run a story on how this is the film that will finally revolutionise 3-D cinema (a full 55 years... London Times Online (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416812/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:37:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415800/posts         Part big budget Hollywood Action/Adventure, part Victorian Period Piece, part Buddy Movie, there is one thing which “Sherlock Holmes” is not, a screed. The absence of any “message” beyond the story stood out to me as more memorable than even the fantastic interplay between Downey and Law as Holmes and Watson. While some might argue that the pervasive atmosphere of decay and filth portrayed in “Sherlock Holmes” might be a negative statement on industrialization, I would argue back that “The Good Old Days” had manure in the streets. Hollywood, STFU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415800/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415427/posts December 25, 2009 Avatar the movie: the religion of the left By Phill Kline The visuals are stunning, the story borrowed and the message shallow and false. John Cameron's new epic Avatar features a jump in animation technology and a throwback of over 1,000 years to pantheism. Set in 2154, the movie features a U.S. mega-corporation mining the distant planet of Pandora for a rare mineral that suspiciously looks like a carbon spewing lump of coal. The mining is conducted with smoke belching machinery that rape the planet while the human workers are protected by Marine mercenaries from the... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415427/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:15:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414889/posts A bunch of little guys fight to save the ranch from an evil baron. One hired hand rises up, leaves the baron, befriends the little guys, learns their simple ways, finds love and the meaning of life, and kills the baron. And then rides off into the planetset. Same plot you’ve seen more times than John Wayne has pink shirts, but you’ve never seen it in multi-colored 3D. It was real pretty. There wasn’t one turn that you didn’t see coming from ten klicks away. A “klick”, incidentally, is a military-speak for “kilometer”, a jargon they had the jarhead hero... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414889/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415066/posts There is no denying the breathtaking visual beauty of the $400 million 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar. It is already a global box office smash, taking in more than $200 million worldwide in its opening weekend. The special effects are simply stunning, and some of the action sequences are spectacular. But Avatar is also a distinctly political work of art, with a strong anti-American and anti-Western message. It can be read on several levels – a critique of the Iraq War, an assault on the US-led War on Terror, a slick morality tale about the ‘evils’ of Western imperialism, a futuristic... Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415066/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414919/posts Since it opened last week, James Cameron's much-anticipated film "Avatar" has won praise from movie critics and been a juggernaut at the box office. But some who have seen the film say that it contains hidden messages that are anti-war, pro-environment, and perhaps even racist. For the benefit of those who haven't seen the film, a little nonspoiler background might be useful. The story is set in the year 2154 when Earth's inhabitants, having used up most of their natural resources through decades of living in excess, plan to use military force to conquer Pandora, a moon roughly the same... Yahoo Movies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414919/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:17:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414298/posts James Cameron's Avatar Is A Stylish Film Marred By Its Racist Subtext By Will Heaven World The Na'vi wear dreadlocks and African-style jewellery (Picture: 20th Century Fox) Avatar was a spectacle, I’ll grant you that. The film’s 230-million-dollar budget guaranteed extravagant and often beautiful 3D special effects. But as I left the cinema last night, I couldn’t help questioning the weird mind behind it all. Was it James Cameron’s intention to be so nauseatingly patronising? And how could the famously Left-wing director have failed to pick up on his film’s racist subtext? I won’t spoil the plot, but here’s the... Telegraph(UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414298/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414363/posts Filmmaker James Cameron is famous for blockbusters like Titanic and The Terminator. His latest movie, Avatar, just opened after a massive media blitz during which Cameron himself hit the talk show circuit, along with his on-screen stars. Since the high-tech 3-D film may have cost $300 million to make, Cameron is highly motivated to promote the film so as to recover the costs and make a profit. And herein lies the contradiction between the film's story and the filmmaker's own life.-- snip --Cameron's native Canada is one of Day's supplanting societies, just like the United States and Australia. Cameron is... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414363/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:41:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412911/posts Epic sci-fi crap typically ain't my cup of tea. I get a lot of angry e-mails from people whose bottle of Mountain Dew it is. The notes are usually pretty threatening, as though me not liking something these people love is a matter of utmost importance. As though the fact some as***le with a web site doesn't care for what they do threatens the substance of their passion. My nephew Jimmy is one of these people. He is spurred to action only when someone insults the s**t he likes. Then, his first reaction is to insult whomever doesn't share his... BigEmpire.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412911/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:57:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412997/posts Director James Cameron set himself up to fail with Avatar, his first feature film since 1997’s Oscar-winning Titanic. Cameron all but promised Avatar would reinvent the way we look at 3-D movies. And darn if he didn’t live up to his own hype. Avatar is a thing of beauty, a 3-D movie of clarity and power. And, at a time when the special effects bar is raised with every new blockbuster, Cameron’s film sends that bar rising through the rafters. So why did he retrofit his film with an immature Iraq war meme and, much worse, politically loaded dialogue that... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412997/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:55:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412343/posts Dec 18 2009 10:38 AM EST 'Avatar': Pass The Kool-Aid, By Kurt Loder The greatest movie, uh, ever? James Cameron's "Avatar" is the most amazing ... no, wait: the most staggeringly amazing, jaw-droppingly triple-awesome unbelievable movie ever made. That's the feeling among the reviewers aggregated at Rotten Tomatoes, anyway. I quote: "An overwhelming feast of visual artistry unlike anything you have ever seen before." "Much more than a film. It's a prescribed cinematic experience." "An entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level." "Cameron has achieved no less than a rebirth of cinema." "Make sure you... MTV.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412343/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:56:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412489/posts Avatarocious Another spectacle hits an iceberg and sinks. by John Podhoretz 12/28/2009, Volume 015, Issue 15 AvatarDirected by James Cameron Avatar, we are told, does things with cameras and computers and actors that have never been done before. Its painstaking combination of real-life action and animation has, we are told, taken cinema to a new level. It cost anywhere from $328 million to $500 million, we are told, and took four years to make. It is a breakthrough, we are told, the boldest step into the future of filmmaking, an unparalleled achievement. What they didn't tell us is that Avatar... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412489/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412519/posts Since I am a certified sci-fi geek and most science fiction movies are quite bad this habit unfortunately forces me to watch a large number of bad movies. It’s one of my little perversions. I have just watched the most expensive B-movie ever made, the US$ 237 million Avatar by director James Cameron, famous for having produced films such as The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens and Titanic. Briefly summed up I would say that while it is visually spectacular, as is everything Mr. Cameron makes, Avatar has to be one of the most anti-Western and especially anti-white Hollywood movies I... Brussels Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412519/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:17:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412005/posts Saw Avatar tonight in 3D at the 4:20 showing. I was split between disgust with the "message" and curiosity about the CGI and 3D, and the latter won out. ( SPOILERS BELOW ) The 3D works very well, with only occasional funky edges to it in some of the busier scenes. I had read about people getting sick from it, and I did feel a little funny after just a few minutes of watching some of the 3D previews, but I got used to it after that. In the beginning of the movie I felt a lot of "Gee, this... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412005/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:40:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411929/posts I had intended to spend this time of my life writing a review for James Cameron’s “Avatar,” but there is a bit of news involving a protect surrounding the film that I feel needs to be addressed. But instead of listening to me talk about it, let’s let the folks over at the Stop Avatar Movie blog: --------------------------------------- On Friday, December 18, 2009 thousands of people will be protesting the release of the James Cameron movie, Avatar. The purpose of the protest is as follows: 1) To make all people aware that heterosexual arrogance, assumptions or exclusions of alternative sexualities... Sacramento Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411929/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:39:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411607/posts 1 2 3 4 5 Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411607/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:58:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411165/posts You must remember this: In 2006, the last full year before this downturn, when the economy grew 2.7 percent and the unemployment rate was just 4.6 percent, 3.3 million people lost their jobs to the normal churning of a dynamic economy. This "creative destruction" has human costs but no longer is optional. America has an aging population and has chosen to have a welfare state that siphons increasing amounts of wealth from the economy to give to the elderly. Having willed this end, America must will the means to it -- sometimes severe economic efficiency to generate revenue to finance... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411165/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:10:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410402/posts ames Cameron decade long production of Avatar finally came to the big screen on Friday. With the cutting edge technology and 3D special effects, Cameron tried to bring the alien world of Pandora from his mind's eye to the movie theater. Neoavatara http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410402/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:15:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410065/posts Watched the movie '2012' (John Cusack/Amanda Peet movie). Awesome. Especially when Los Angeles, broke apart into great big gaping holes swallowing everything. Then, in LA too, the land tipped up in the air and everything slide right into the sea. Oh and then, when the USS John F. Kennedy crashing into the White House with the gigantic tsunami. Poetic justice! Real poetic justice. We'll I thought so. All apologies to my CA and DC FReeper friends. Just thought it handled some problems well. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410065/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:46:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408357/posts The show is only half over tonight so there's still hope this will turn around. So far, a poor innocent Muslim (US Military Solider) was killed in cold blood, the reason will of course be because he was muslim. When Ducky gave his diversity speech about "perhaps we should spend more time seeing what we have in common rather than killing each other" I nearly puked. Let's look at reality, a muslim walked in and opened up on his fellow soldiers. They are doing all the cold blooded killing, not us. I think Navy NCIS is off my list. Let's... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408357/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:26:55 GMT