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On IMAX, in 3D, this movie was highly entertaining. You will be entertained if you see this, especially in the 3D.
Holy shit, I want some of that plant life to exist. Graphics were a lot better than I expected. I was kind of amazed at how realistically organic everything looked on the alien planet. The trailers don't really do the visuals any justice. There were many downright trippy scenes in this movie. I'm very excited for when there are processors on the market that are capable of handling this level of graphics in an interactive environment.
Dialogue was preeetty bad. Not as realistic as the visuals, or really any other part of the film. Not at all. The dialogue actually kind of distracting from the movie. Truthfully, the main character's dialogue was the one that was bad, and it made everyone else's dialogue sometimes seem bad too. Sound effects and music were good though, I liked all of that. Really good sound design.
There's a lot of really interesting ideological critiques that this movie makes and it kind of forces me to respect it, because it definitely doesn't follow the traditional ideologies of American media.
It's not as individualistic as most media. There is indeed a central love story between the two protagonists, as expected, but this movie makes a very clear cut criticism on society as a whole and translates classic greed into a very identifiable situation that everyone can relate to and is relevant to the modern world.
This brings me to my conflicted viewpoint and further discussion on the dialogue. Yes, the dialogue was painstaking sometimes, but from the movie-making position, I think this might have been necessary in order to communicate these ideologies to the less cultured mass. As Wade so eloquently put it, if you want to change the real-life dumbass hicks, you need to create a dumbass hick character that changes. When I think about the movie from that point of view, the dialogue becomes acceptable, and I don't feel as bad at how unrealistic the dialogue sometimes was.
Beyond that, in terms of acting, still really didn't like the main male character. He's kind of like a Bruce Willis version of Keanu Reeves. The girl on the other hand, I actually was very surprised at how well her performance was. It might not be the best acting in the world but I was impressed nonetheless.
I would like to see this again, knowing what to expect. Now that I know what'll happen in the storyline, I'd really like to take a closer examination at some passages in the movie. There was one weird part that I thought they might have been alluding to the Internet? I don't know, it made sense in the movie, but it seemed like they were trying to make a metaphor to real life and I kind of got slightly confused as to their meaning.
Overall good movie though, I recommend seeing it on IMAX in 3D. I wouldn't be embarrassed to have this movie in my collection.
People are back in town, that is for sure. I need to find my PSP. Its absence is the only reason I haven't gotten a copy of Dissidea, or God of War: Chains of Olympus, or Call of Duty. Its absence is the only reason my digital copy of Final Fantasy VII is on my PS3 and not my PSP. Also, I never did finish Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories on PSP. Very enjoyable.
Oh so hey, Nicole and I have talked about building a computer. I would love to put all the hardware together ourselves and install Mac's Leopard, all the while keeping a documentation of how much money has been spent on this project. I'm primarily interested in the difference between the actual cost to build a Mac, and the list price of a Mac with the exact same hardware. If all goes well, and if the cost of the hardware is what I'm expecting, I'm even considering making more and throwing Ubuntu on them. We could sell homemade computers that are more efficient than a Mac and cheaper. We could even manufacture these to suit specific customers' needs. For example, some people, myself included, really prefer Adobe Photoshop over GIMP, the image editing software included in Ubuntu. We could just install Wine and torrent a copy of the Windows version of Photoshop. (Shh, don't tell anyone.) I've just recently discovered the new possibilities created by Wine. I don't why I didn't try using it before. I'm playing Super Mario World on an SNES emulator for Windows, on Ubuntu. I'm going to install Photoshop on my Ubuntu drive through Wine just to see how well it works. I'll let you know how that goes.
It's an idea, and I think it's an idea worth trying. Maybe not the whole part-time homemade computer manufacturing job, but building that Mac and comparing the cost to the price? Oh yeah, that's definitely happening.