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Avatar looks badass. (pg. 26)
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Let it be clarified that we're referring to Ferngully SANS Tim Curry/Hexxus. It makes a difference. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
This movie was ing horrible. I wouldn't pirate it to watch it again.
The main character was completely unlikeable, the plot was so ing predictable and awful, the graphics were good but not mind-blowing.
Pocahontas thrown into the halo universe with a lot of anti-American/business sentiment. |
did u see it in 3d? |
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| Schadenfreude |
| Great idea. I'm going to watch all of the Police Academy movies in 3D now. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
That's it! That's the third thing I was thinking of.
Combination of Halo, Pocahontas, and Fern Gully.
Ugh. Awful. |
Someone from digg posted this, and I agree with it.
| quote: | Originally posted by XombieShovel
What most people don't realize is this.
All of the world's most popular stories, the biggest blockbusters, the movies or shows with the biggest fandoms, more often then not, they're always the same basic one or two stories. They're stories which have existed for thousands of years because of their sheer popularity, and how easily everyone can relate to them. The setting and characters might change but the over-arching plot remains the same.
Something like this happens every single time a new super popular movies comes out.
Starwars, Star Trek, and Harry Potter? Same story.
Avatar and Pocahontus? Same story.
Alot of it is the same, especially when we boil it down to it's simple elements. Digg me down if you want, but once you start comparing all the famous movies and stories over the past thousand years you'll start to realize that these things can date as far back as to Sumeria or Ancient China. |
These days, if you want a movie with an original story that has never been done, and doesn't take ideas from any movie ever made, you are in for a huge disappointment, and are fooling yourself. |
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| Schadenfreude |
you thought transformers was awesome.
*points* |
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| ziptnf |
| And Jurassic Park too, don't forget that one. |
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| Lews |
There's a difference between having the same basic story arc and being the same ing story. There's also a difference between having a bad plot and being a bad movie. This was both.
They thought spending millions of dollars on the graphics would save it, and it didn't. Unless your view of saving it is making over a billion dollars, then it did. But even 2012 made 750 million. It's not really a big deal to make this much money anymore. Oh well. Yay Hollywood!
And I'm very aware of how similar many stories are, thanks though. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Someone from digg posted this, and I agree with it. |
Archetypes. AKA narrative structuralism. AKA narrative theory for morons. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| They're ing exactly right, but I think that people further blunder this concept by condemning it. Storytelling *is* derivative of other cultural transmissions - it probably always has been, and this is not a bland or unoriginal concept in itself; indeed, what sense of history or fantasy would we even have were every work a completely isolated and original string of scenes? There is meaning in derivation, among all forms of art. Where this goes most noticeably wrong of course is when organizations churn out the same crap over and over, with the sole purpose of generating money. Myth never perpetuates itself however, nor does it evolve by each generation keeping it in a vacuum. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Oh yeah, and everyone's a moron but me. |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Oh yeah, and everyone's a moron but me. |
YOUR WRONG. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Dammit, this ALWAYS happens. :mad: |
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