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Jan 14, 2010

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The great 3D fad

As my little review shows, I loved Avatar; I’m grateful in many ways that it was my first 3D experience (my dad’s had been the Robert Zemeckis motion capture Christmas Carol, I think), and on the whole, I think it’s the future of cinema as a whole once the technology has been perfected for the user end – let’s face it, those glasses serve as something of a barrier for the action, and in many ways took me out of it – then there’s the fact that Avatar was so expensive, and most of it, save the beauty shots, weren’t even in 3D…But it’s prompted quite the reaction from Hollywood, as Avatar rakes in close to 1.4 billion USD after five weeks of release.

Jan 3, 2010

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The Obligatory 2009 round up: Avatar

Being honest, Christmas wasn’t as big of an entertainment disappointment as some people would have you believe, especially if you happen to be British; We had Eddie Izzard performing really quite well in the BBC remake of the day of the triffids, David Tennant bowed out not so gracefully in what surely has to be the longest goodbye in recent TV history, not to mention Doctor Who history – but was seen again on a good number of BBC stations, reading kids bedtime stories, and the not so light hearted Hamlet. We’ll get to all of that shortly, but I think the big thing, at least for me was the viewing of the awesome, utterly brilliant Avatar.