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Work continues apace on whipping up changes and improvements here, as Frans continues to add and refine features. Since a couple of these were rolled out during the holiday season, they should probably be noted again. First, to go along with the new general forums the popular threads list on the left now includes a little basement of the most popular recent threads from the non-news forums, which at this point are arguably "unpopular threads" since they are not used that much, which is why we want to highlight them. The news threads on the popular list expire after a week, but we'll give the general forums more leeway to see if that helps them gain some traction. Also, we now have a Twitter feed that delivers headlines and links to our stories here, this is very exciting as we eagerly await our first retweet. It should be noted the feed skips most of the roundup links like tech bits and such. Finally, our YouTube Channel is where to find videos we have posted. That's all for now, but there's more coming. So there!

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10. Re: Out of the Blue Jan 6, 2010, 18:26 ForgedReality
 
nin wrote on Jan 6, 2010, 18:11:


I don't care about the somewhat contrived, campy storyline,

http://web.me.com/pascalboogaert/Site/foto3.html


Beat me to it. Wasn't really impressed with Avatar at all.



It was "fun" in IMAX 3d, but then, I wasn't going expecting much either. Maybe that is where our impressions differ. I also wasn't going with the unrealistic attitude of taking it too seriously. I knew it was somewhat unoriginal story-wise, but concept-wise and from an entertainment standpoint, it was a lot of fun.

If you go in expecting this blow-your-mind-on-every-level-possible result, you're going to be disappointed, no matter the film. My attitude was: wait and see. I went to see what all the hype was about, without expecting it to be perfect or even all that good. I also was interested in why they felt they needed to "invent a new 3d camera" for this film, and that was probably one of the more interesting aspects to it, next to the fun factor. Never go see a movie expecting to "think." It's an entertainment medium, not a psychoanalytical forum. You see movies to have fun and be entertained; not to have you second-guessing your life philosophies. That would make for a pretty boring movie, if you ask me.

I felt it was amazing for what it is, not for what it could have been. And this might be due to the fact that I saw it in IMAX. Still waiting to see if the effect still holds true in a lesser format.

This comment was edited on Jan 6, 2010, 18:27.
 
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