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I'll keep this brief.

Visually stunning. the graphics are considerably better than anything I've seen before.

3D stuff: pretty cool. particularly floating motes of ash and stuff like that. Not a lot of stuff coming out at you. I would happily watch films without it for the rest of my days.

Story: almost nauseating in its "developed world raping the developing of its resources with no care for life, culture or history of those who live there"

Worth a watch though, if only for the spectacle, as others have said before.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Dec 2009, 23:04, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Most accurate review so far?
Boy's girlfriend. She said it's just like Pocahontas with aliens. She was waiting for the blue girl to start singing.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 30 Dec 2009, 23:34, Reply)

Did your Orange scam work?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 0:06, Reply)

saw it 2 nights ago, i agree with you...effects better than 1983...story a load of wank.
'cept we 'ad to sit RIGHT daaaaaahn tha frrrrunnntt.
cos my goddam spouse hasn't yet realised that when i say we need to leave BY 7.15 then 7.30 (well achly 7.28) is too late to get a decent seat.
this kind of spoils the effect cos of perspective and foreshortening (sp?) and stuff, i am sure. also the focus was a bit off.
the problem this creates for me is that about 16 or 17 yrs ago i prolapsed a disc in my neck.
in section, from above, face forward it's at about 4-5:30, meaning that the last 2 days i have hardly been able to feel my right hand.
FUCKSOCKS!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 31 Dec 2009, 0:45, Reply)

I've reached the point
where I can no longer watch blockbusters with their faux-sentimentality and nauseating moral grandstanding. I blame He-Man.
( djtrialprice, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 0:47, Reply)

The cartoon
Or the fucking godawful 80s effort with Dolph Lundgren and Frank 'Richard Nixon' Langella as Skeletor?
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 0:51, Reply)

Yup
Fairly accurate review. I did like the fact that Cameron resisted the temptation that all directors have when filming stuff for 3D and having things lunge out and appear to poke you in the eye. Not willies, just other stuff.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 1:11, Reply)

I thought that too
my girlfriend thought that the 3D was wasted because there wasn't much of that stuff.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:11, Reply)

I'm off to see it at the Imax on Saturday
I find it difficult to accept regular cinema these days. I'm an Imax snob...yes the screen is incredibly huge and amazing, but it is the sound that does it for me. Incredibly detailed and with enough bass to make you fart with joy.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 9:06, Reply)

never been to one
No idea where the nearest is to me
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:11, Reply)

All hail the Imax!!
Come to Glasgow and get stabbed while your here. Bonus!
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:22, Reply)

I didn't get stabbed when I went to Glasgow last time
I had a lovely time. The people I was visiting bought me a bottle of vodka every day, so I was obliged to drink it, and turn nocturnal.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:27, Reply)

Glad to hear it.
Hope your liver recovered.

When i was living away from Glasgow i missed it dearly. Derby was just too fucking normal for me, too safe, too easy, dull basically. I missed the edge of a night out in Glasgow, the clued up clubbers who, whilst completely mashed, still had manners.

Never missed the weather though.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:44, Reply)

I saw one of the Matrix abominations at the London iMax
I got vertigo like a big girl.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:46, Reply)

Yeah, i saw one of them too
It was the first normal film i saw there, the problem was that they basically had to blow it up to fill the screen and the subsequent mess resembled a youtube jpeg fest as opposed to a cutting edge fillum, which it wasn't to begin with anyway.

When it first opened up here i was thrilled to see they didn't allow you to bring any food or drink in the auditorium. They subsequently reneged on that and now you can experience all the thrill of the Imax alongside the proles munching away at their fucking nosebags.

I can sit at home for hours and hours and never feel the need to start ramming snacks in my mouth. Why can't the majority of folk at the cinema get by mere minutes without feeling the need to be ramming confection into their rancid blowholes.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:55, Reply)

I think it might be
because they're fat, disgusting sweaty cunts who should all be shot and dumped in mass graves. I may be wrong, though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 12:50, Reply)

Well, even if you are wrong,
it's a mighty fine guess.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 13:13, Reply)