James Cameron's AVATAR

[samnwck]

Just got done with it as well, I must say excellent story. This was one of those movies where i really didn't want to see it but, it would have been a mistake not to have. The special effects are out of this world, especially in 3D. fantastic visuals, captivating characters(or i thought they were anyway), all around good show.

[.Wolf™]

Got my tickets, Going to watch tonight!

[LlamaMaster]

Bad time to be moving to a place with a tiny theater.

[Jean-Luc]

but I'm fairly confident that I just witnessed the biggest cinematic technical achievement of the past decade.

LotR > everything

Can't wait to see Avatar tonight though

[=sw=warlord]

District 9 > everything

Can't wait to see Avatar tonight though

Ftfy.

[Jean-Luc]

Ftfy.

Did you honestly just say that District 9 was more of a technical/cinematic achievement than Lord of the Rings?

Kindly step outside

[mech]

Lord of the rings was a bowel movement that just wont stop moving.

[=sw=warlord]

Did you honestly just say that District 9 was more of a technical/cinematic achievement than Lord of the Rings?

Kindly step outside

Even 4chan produced better trolls than those gremlins in LOTR.
Joking aside.
Read this and this if you want to learn a thing or two on it.
I found the 30 million budget rather interesting.
As much as i liked LOTR, district 9 takes the prize for me.

[.Wolf™]

First LOTR movie kind of made enough profit that covered the costs for all three movies. lul. Avatar is gun b awesome

[Siliconmaster]

LotR > everything

Can't wait to see Avatar tonight though

Ftfy.

I love LotR, and District 9. I'll say that Lord of the Rings pioneered massive battles, but even now some of the special effects are starting to look a little dated. D9 mastered mixing CG with live action, so you couldn't tell the aliens weren't real.

Avatar just perfected both, and for that I consider it incredible. Half the movie I was trying to figure out what was CG and what wasn't, and eventually I gave up. Then I realized 95% of it was CG. And jawdropped. Plus, Weta was in the end credits, so their special effects house contributed. And D9 wasn't in 3d. Believe me, it makes a difference, especially with the new technology.