A few time-sensitive things

[cleolinda]

Very tired--like, "sleepy" tired, not "verge of a nervous breakdown" tired. Maybe it's just because there's been a lot of holiday-related running-around lately, which is fun. And I've been eating out more, which means I'm drinking soda, which means I'm getting more caffeine than I should, which means I'm not sleeping very well at night. All I know

Comments

[elizardbits]

Yeah, actually I'd be pretty surprised if Avatar doesn't get some kind of tech/production-based Oscar nod. I mean, if it gets a Best Pic nom or something I will probably soil myself laughing, obvsly. IDK, can stuff like that get a cinematography nomination? I know fuck all about the filmmaking process, even when it includes actual humans.

[cleolinda]

Given that it's already getting critics' awards, and there will already be 10 Best Picture slots instead of 5, I'd say it's pretty much a lock for a nomination.

[elizardbits]

Oh god, I forgot about the doubled slots for this year. UP IS DOWN, DOWN IS UP, DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER.

[count_01]

Given that they did boobs right in 3-d? I'm gonna have to say yes, they will win some kind of techno-dweeb prize, if the Academy has to make up a new one just to award to the first show that gets that breasts change shape when gravity pulls them.

Plus, the sound design was good as hell, although it did need some low-in-your-gut whomps and whoooms in some spots where there were only crunch-in-your-chest thumps and booms. And there is the whole invented-a-new-language award, which has to go to J.R.R. TolkienCameron or at least the dude he hired to come up with it. From scratch.

[ook]

Back in 1998, I once followed an online conversation between a couple of guys who were just flipping out over the CGI boob action that had been created for Lara Croft. Evidently a clip of Lara running had been uploaded to the game's web site and the men were so incredibly excited about it. Later on, these same guys were VERY VERY SAD when the clip was removed from the web site (and they hadn't saved it).

I guess if it makes the women feel better, there was a great deal of detail paid to the CGI penis of Doctor Manhattan in the Watchmen movie -- they had to make Doc M.'s wang bigger than the comic book so that he'd be more "impressive" (and not laughed off the screen) but not too big so that he didn't turn into a porn star. No matter the size of his cock, people's eye were always drawn THERE in his scenes.

[missyjack]

I want to know why Dances with Jar Jar Binks Avatar didn't have any giant blue CGI penis in it ??

[ook]

Because the Watchmen film proved how frightened audiences (and the film ratings board) were of giant CGI blue cocks. Also, cocks look funny when they bounce around a lot. (Note that male genitals in the CGI film "Beowulf" were either non-existent or carefully hidden.)

[reticent_lass]

The elaborate dance of splinters and shadows was quite mesmerizing. I still can't decide whether that was worse or better than Mama Joliemonster's inexplicable heels.

[tabbyclaw]

My month and date are both colors that look awful on me, and I am apparently "verbally strong, striking, motivated." They could probably put a case together for 'striking' -- people seem to remember me when I don't expect them to -- but I'm appallingly lazy and stumble over most of my sentences.

Maybe my entire family has been lying about my birthday all my life?

[radiotrash]

Re: Neytiris boobies. I was talking to a friend about Cameron's statement and how I watched the whole movie waiting for a nip slip and she claims there were, in fact, several of them.

All I know is that now when I get it on Blu Ray I'm going to be doing a lot of pausing to confirm/deny and feel like a total perv while doing so.

[cleolinda]

There was one moment, a bit in profile, where I was like, waaaaait...

[radiotrash]

There was several of those for me but she swears there was one where she saw a dark nipple clearly.

And then we started talking about how James Cameron was all "They are not placental mammals so boobies make no sense but I did it anyway lolz" and how if Cameron hadn't specified that they shouldn't have boobs then I (and I'm guessing many people in fact) would have never known.

Of course then I went to look up a definition of a placental mammal. "They are distinguished by these other mammal groups by a number of characteristics, including their genitals, the separation of genitals and anus, and their vivipary (young stay inside the body until fully developed)."

So now I'm left wondering what the Na'vi are and what is going on with their genitals.

Damn you James Cameron.

[lisa_zj]

In the hammocks. Clear as day.