Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Anyone picking up Avatar on Blu-Ray today?

IMHO, if you drop the 3D part the movie was "good" or "entertaining". It wasn't great... to me anyway. I know people who thought it was the best movie EVAR!

I'll put it on my Birthday and Christmas lists, but I won't be spending my own cash on it.

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Best movie ever, give me a break. The visuals are just incredible but it's a popcorn flick, the plot is very average.

Anyway, I have to say even with a very slight disappointment of no 3D, the movie was a heck of a lot of fun to watch in the home theatre. The audio is great, there is plenty of LFE and surround effects are used well. I found dialogue was very easy to hear and clear, which I can't say of all movies. Of course the visuals are just unreal, the use of colour is fantastic.

Overall I give it 8.5/10 just for sheer movie watching fun.

On another note, at the end of the credits there is a THX demo thing... This may be old news but I have never seen it before, and it's pretty cool.

I love how it becomes the number one movie ever because it raked in more money than any other to this date but only because they charged more for 3D so it brought in more money. Once inflation adjusted it is only in ~14th place(might climb slightly higher) hardly the best or highest grossing movie of all time.

With that said, I like it way more than Titanic, lol.

But does Avatar include any comic relief like Titanic does? I found the scene in Titanic where the guy on the steeply inclined deck is bouncing off of railings on his way down as if he were a human plinko ball particularly amusing.

I saw about 30 minutes of a boot leg version of Avatar a month or two ago at a buddies house... seemed like a decent movie. He asked if I wanted to borrow it but didn't want to watch it unless it was in HD with killer sound.

Now I just need to snag it online or rent it...

There is some comedy, although nothing really hilarious. There are dramatic parts and some light-hearted parts, a good mix.

Thanks to Cameron's, ah, writing, some of the dramatic parts are pretty funny, especially from the third viewing forward.

I watched it again tonight and enjoyed it again. The PQ is really stunning and the audio is great as well. IMHO one of the best looking blu-rays out. Definitely would be a great demo movie for sound and picture.

My wife picked it up for me at our local Fry's on Thursday($19.98). We did not see it in the movies, so we'll be watching it with the kids today.