Avatar or District 9?

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If you have seen both of these movies, which is better?

Personally, I have to vote for District 9. I wouldn't say it's a run away victory, but in my opinion, the story is better, the acting is equal, the time frame is shorter, the CGI is equal. The time frame is a huge deal...in 3 hrs a person loses interest, focusing on their butt instead of the movie. Too much fluff. Like it or not, both movies had a plausible plot, but District 9 was more realistic in their story, and it was far from predictable. It is rare to find a movie that does not take you where you think you are going. The use of an unknown actor playing a lead role, combined with his type of character..that being just a regular average joe, and then pushing him to the brink, is a true testiment of man kind's abilities to adapt and overcome. This movie is so far under the radar it's unbelieveable. If you haven't seen it, and you like Sci-fi, then this movie is a must see.
 
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Avatar, Sorry Jeff, I have to disagree. You made some valid points on D9 but Avatar, to me, was such a beautiful movie that I never even considered leaving. Maybe, its the fact that I saw the 3d version and that put inside. I don't know.
 
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As a big fan of both movies, I am torn as to which one was the better of the two. D9 was completely original and the CG so realistic that I forgot that they were not real beings. Avitar was so creative with the new world life forms and beauty that I got completely entranced in the movie. I give D9 the edge for originality, realism and subtle message as to how we always seem to treat aliens (i.e. people who are different than us). I give the nod to Avitar for creativity and beauty and excellent fight scenes. Both great movies if you're a SiFi fan.

Jim Smith
 
Tough choice. Both stories were somewhat similar although I thought the story for D9 was a little better. Avatar's story was basically a futuristic "Dancing with Wolves" but I enjoyed the graphics and visuals much more in Avatar.
 
being the son of a Marine, I am excited for Avatar to come out on DVD so can finally see it. Allthough, it will have alot to lvie up to compared to D9. That movie is awesome! The CGI was wicked, the acting was solid, and the story was more than impressive. A really amazing twist on the standard Love story!



Makes me wanna eat cat food!
 
I saw both movies last week, on two consecutive nights but never actually stopped to consider the similarities at the time. Both are morality tales that use humanities abuse of an invented alien species to point out the essential inhumanity of our interactions with each other. Both feature abuses of power and secrecy, one by a corporation, driven by greed, and the other by a governmental agency driven by stupidity, bureaucratic inertia, and public antipathy. Both also have finally achieved (IMHO) that seamless integration of CGI technology and storyline that has so long eluded Hollywood.

There the similarities pretty much end. One sets these against a backdrop of the brilliant beauty and wonder that have always drawn me to sci-fi in the first place. The other intentionally portrays a world of squalor, poverty and despair, that If I wanted to see, I could easily drive less than an hour from my luxurious, clean, modern (and heavily financed) home and find myself in.

One chooses to invent a race that embodies many of the finer qualities that we strive toward ourselves and portray them as finally triumphant over the much better equipped forces of evil. The other imagines a race physically different from us, but very similar in many ways to the less desirable tendencies within ourselves.

I guess that if one forces oneself to examine both movies objectively, and strictly on their technical merits, it would be a difficult choice to say which is the "better movie", but for my money (and almost everyone else's, to judge from the box office) I will pick the triumph of Honor, Valor, and Beauty (regardless how PC they may be made to look) over the grinding degradation of sloth, stupidity and ignorance (no matter how realistic) every time.

I would go into the ironic timing of D9's release just prior to the disaster in Haiti, and entertain speculation as to the similarities there, but it's just too damn depressing when I still haven't finished my first pot of coffee this morning.
 
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Will the DVD version of Avatar allow 3D at home? I was not aware that home TVs / screens present 3D in such a way. I know that there are non 3D versions of the movie. Take the 3D out and it is just a good fantasy story.

I was blown away by the 3D! The 3D was greater than the story itself to me. Edit in: I was unprepared for the dynamics of the 3D so much that the technology (for a full length movie) overshadowed the story. If I were watching it as a 3rd or 4th 3D movie, I probably would have focused totally on the story line itself. I felt like I was in another dimension, and no, I was not drunk! :biggrin:

In all honesty, I have never seen a movie quite as good as the movie that exists in my mind while I am reading a good book or story line - until I saw Avatar 3D.
 
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i enjoyed both movies....
avatar wins in my heart...
the bootom line is that the story is important in Both....a lot should be learned from both films
 
AVATAR

Rank Title Studio Worldwide Domestic/% Overseas/% Year^
1Titanic Par. $1,842.9 $600.8 32.6% $1,242.1 67.4% 1997
2Avatar Fox $1,620.5 $505.1 31.2% $1,115.4 68.8% 2009
3LOTR3 NL $1,119.1 $377.0 33.7% $742.1 66.3% 2003
The tape tells the story! This will soon be the #1 film of all time.

Edit... That's $1.620 BILLION!!

District 9 TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic: $115,646,235 56.5%+
Foreign: $89,191,089 43.5%
Worldwide: $204,837,324

I love Peter Jackson but Jim Cameron has this contest hands down. And the movie is the reason. Avatar is utterly spectacular.
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