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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | For those looking to import this first release from the US, it seems that it's been confirmed as region free SourceSource |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bbbbb: Quote:
I'll see Avatar (then for the first time in 2D, which is very exciting) shortly after the BD-release at a home cinema near me, postponing the purchase decision. Update: After Amazon lowered the price of the BD to under 15 EUR I'll buy it right now on April 23rd. | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: April 14, 2007 | | Posts: 415 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, he certainly upped the bitrate for this release, as promised. Most of my HD movies are in the 15-30GB range. Avatar is over 45Gb  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,684 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting FunkyLA: Quote:
May I say I will not be buying any version  After reading Brian Orndorf's review at DVD Talk, I'm not sure I will be buying any version either... Quote:
"Avatar" is a tremendous disappointment, but perhaps only a mediocre film. Again, I'm grateful James Cameron has decided to return from the void, back making movies where he belongs. However, it's tough to shake the thought that after 12 years of dormancy, this is the best script James Cameron could come up with? All the ornate animation and trickery can hardly hide that fact that "Avatar" is a hollow, coldly executed misfire. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | It was a bad enough movie when it was Return of the Jedi. This is a worse one. Not buying. An extended edition? It was already two hours too long. I was checking my watch half an hour in. The 3-D was pretty good but I can't imagine sitting through this bloated sack again. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I rather liked the movie. So I bought it yesterday.
So there! |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
It was a bad enough movie when it was Return of the Jedi. This is a worse one. Not buying. An extended edition? It was already two hours too long. I was checking my watch half an hour in. The 3-D was pretty good but I can't imagine sitting through this bloated sack again.  And guess what it shifts 1.5 million copy's on Blu-ray on it's first day. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
It was a bad enough movie when it was Return of the Jedi. This is a worse one. Not buying. An extended edition? It was already two hours too long. I was checking my watch half an hour in. The 3-D was pretty good but I can't imagine sitting through this bloated sack again. I actually had the exact oposite experience. I didn't check the time once. Like the good doctor, I rather enjoyed it. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting GSyren: Quote:
Quoting FunkyLA:
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May I say I will not be buying any version
After reading Brian Orndorf's review at DVD Talk, I'm not sure I will be buying any version either... I never let a review sway my viewing choices...I may, however, rent it before I buy it, based on a review. Taste varies so much that I have do make that decision on my own. There are critically acclaimed films that I simply can't sit through, and universally panned fillms that I quite enjoyed. This film, I quite enjoyed. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,044 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to a Reuters report Avatar has sold upwards of 4 million copies of which 1.5 million were Blu-rays on the first day of sales, topping The Dark Knight for one day sales figures.  Rory  | | | DVD Profiler for iOS as of 3/5/2013
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, I never saw it in the theater. So I bought it today and just watched it.
I will say that the beginning was a tad slow and some of it's just eye candy. But the finale was very exciting to me.
I really liked the film. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting rorymatt: Quote:
According to a Reuters report Avatar has sold upwards of 4 million copies of which 1.5 million were Blu-rays on the first day of sales, topping The Dark Knight for one day sales figures.
Rory
Top in movie sales and now top in DVD sales. Sounds like the naysayers are in the vast minority. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
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According to a Reuters report Avatar has sold upwards of 4 million copies of which 1.5 million were Blu-rays on the first day of sales, topping The Dark Knight for one day sales figures.
Rory
Top in movie sales and now top in DVD sales. Sounds like the naysayers are in the vast minority. Since when where sales a reflection of how good a film is. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting FilmAlba: Quote:
Since when where sales a reflection of how good a film is. It's an excellent reflection how how people think of the film. If the movie was as bad as the naysayers are saying, then why is it breaking records in the box office and in sales? |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
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Since when where sales a reflection of how good a film is.
It's an excellent reflection how how people think of the film.
If the movie was as bad as the naysayers are saying, then why is it breaking records in the box office and in sales? And suppose from that you can make an argument for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen being a cinematic masterpiece. With it's 800 million dollar gross. Robot leg humping stereotyping races and contradictions at ever turn of course cause so many pepole saw it's got to be good  |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | So Avatar is out one (1) sale because you do not like the movie. Still doesn't change the fact that so many people did like the movie that it's setting records.
Clearly James Cameron has done something right. The numbers speak for themselves. | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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