Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I'm not blaming the previous Government for anything. I'm stating they were the ones who started this process. And observing that if they hadn't started the process, it wouldn't be so advanced now. This is basically a truism.
This feels a bit like "the people who invented the rules of test cricket are responsible for 20/20 cricket".
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My luck for the week was taking Kim Deal sailing Wednesday, and after the show Thursday I got to have a glass of wine and talk with Charles in the backroom. I know I'm bragging but WTF it was the Pixies.
"This Monkley's gone to heaven"?
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Totally, and I get that. It's precisely the fact that he did use a translator that, to my mind, nixes the suggestion that Avatar trivialises native languages. If he'd stood up and delivered a flawless, untranslated peroration worthy of MLK or Winston Churchill, that would be a trivialisation.
Whether or not he could have spoken the speech in fluent Nav'i after three months, for the purposes of the movie, the makers clearly want the speech delivered in English to the audience can hear it and feel inspired by it and whatnot, rather than have to do that via subtitles.
All due respect, but without the 3D... I dunno... hard to say whether I would've said anything positive about the film...
My partner and I rewatched it on Friday night having seen it a month or so ago in 2D (and enjoyed it), now that Dunedin has 3D. We were both underwhelmed. I'd never seen a 3D movie before, but it really didn't add much for me. The effects were kinda cool, but the things that I thought might be really cool (arrows, missiles coming out of the screen) seemed to be way too fast for me to catch.
I taught myself how to do this when I was a kid, sitting in our dining room and staring at the wall opposite.
A kindred spirit! I used to find this terribly annoying when I was a child, I couldn't make my eyes focus on things properly so there were always two of them. It didn't seem to be until I was an adult that I could control it. Now I have to consciously make it happen, haven't even thought about it for months.
Both Cameron and the Wachowskis have made explicit claims in this regard. Cameron even spoke Na'vi at an award ceremony for heaven's sake.
I made the decision quite some time ago to enjoy movies and the people in them, regardless of whether those people are foolish twits or not. Case in point, I like watching old Christian Slater movies (Heathers, Pump up the Volume, Kuffs), yet I know he has on occasion beaten his partner. I'd probably also watch a Polanksi movie, despite him having done something pretty bad in the past. I'm vaguely aware that Cameron has an ego about the size of Pandora, and says things about his movies that are somewhat stupid. I'll happily disconnect that from the actual movie however.
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Beat that, suckers.
I think you missed the point of the exercise somewhere. Longer != better.
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I guess these things work better when you're following the game live rather than with a minute's delay on cricinfo.
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Everyone stand on one foot! Tuffey just hit three sixes in a row.
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Personally, I enjoyed the Star Wars prequels more than Avatar (which isn't to say I enjoyed them lots and lots, just more than Avatar...)
No they were awful. George Lucas made up an entire universe, made a big thing about it, and contradicted himself between the original movies and the prequels in several places.
And Avatar has no Jar Jar equivalent.
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And yes, James Cameron is, by all accounts, a dick.
If we were to exclude everyone who was a dick from winning academy awards...
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There's an unusual sort of glee when 'low brow' movies don't win at the academy awards.
The three movies that have won the most Oscars are Titanic, Ben Hurr, and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
Academy Awards seems exactly the ceremony where Avatar should do well.
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We take possession tomorrow, have I mentioned that?
Good luck! We got in... three weeks ago tomorrow. Unpacking almost finished. I've taken about four carloads of flattened cardboard to be recycled.
Most depressing thing, the dozen or so boxes and bags of things that I had to haul up the hill to the new house, only to have my partner finally agree that it really was rubbish and that it needed to go to the Sallies or a skip.