Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

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So what did you think (DcT edition)?

Best of all the films
8
9%
Better than A New Hope, Empire, the prequels, But not Jedi
2
2%
Better than A New Hope, Jedi, the prequels, but not Empire
6
7%
Better than Empire, Jedi, the Prequels, but not A New Hope
2
2%
Better than A New Hope and the prequels, but not Empire or Jedi
2
2%
Better than Empire and the prequels, but not A New Hope or Jedi
1
1%
Better than Jedi and the prequels, but not a New Hope or Empire
23
26%
As good as Empire, Jedi, and A New Hope, and better than the prequels
15
17%
Better than the prequels, but not the originals
15
17%
As good as some of the prequels
7
8%
As good as all of the prequels
2
2%
Worse than the prequels
5
6%
 
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No competition. A general disinterest in going to the movies (at least across America in general; rising prices) and groundbreaking 3D technology. It made going to the movies AN EXPERIENCE. And one you couldn't get at home. You had to go to the movies and spend the money.
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like, people needed to convince themselves it was a great movie to resolve the cognitive dissonance
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It didn't hurt that almost every showing was in 3D with the $3 surcharge.
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Mecca wrote:like, people needed to convince themselves it was a great movie to resolve the cognitive dissonance
Wait, we're still talking about avatar or star wars?
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Remember news reports about people being suicidal because they couldn't go to the Avatar planet?
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McParadigm wrote:Remember news reports about people being suicidal because they couldn't go to the Avatar planet?
What? We can't go to Pandora?
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The avatar thing did create a massive culture thing online. Much the same way Lord of the rings did.

Don't know if it's sustained as much as the LOTR one has but it probably has.
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Ps can anyone see my groovy new avatar?
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I'm so glad there are going to be multiple sequels to that piece of rotten shit.
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dimejinky99 wrote:Ps can anyone see my groovy new avatar?
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I liked it. I'd say Lucas was in a total ragin bitch for when he saw it and the final battle.

Cgi it may have been but unquantifiably better than any in his prequels
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Avatar was a really moving experience in the cinema that utterly failed to translate at home. I can't remember the names of any characters. I'd assume the sequels will fail, but has James Cameron ever had a miss?
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stip wrote:Avatar was a really moving experience in the cinema that utterly failed to translate at home. I can't remember the names of any characters. I'd assume the sequels will fail, but has James Cameron ever had a miss?

I think it's telling 'he waiting for the tech to develop'

What can you do in an avatar sequel except remake the first, basically.
Involve some new civilisations on the same planet. Same fight. Only much bigger.
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dimejinky99 wrote: What can you do in an avatar sequel except remake the first, basically.
Ah yes, the JJ Abrams approach
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hi jorge
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Our very own in hiding Jedi reappears
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For the record, I liked this movie! I'm not a big Star Wars fan.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
What can you do in an avatar sequel except remake the first, basically.
base it on the sequel to Dances with Wolves
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theplatypus wrote:For the record, I liked this movie! I'm not a big Star Wars fan.
Hey guy.
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Mecca wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
What can you do in an avatar sequel except remake the first, basically.
base it on the sequel to Dances with Wolves

Waterworld?
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