Concerns About Princess and the Frog...

Bairstow

Bairstow

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No one's going to take their 8-year-old girl to see Sam Worthington get turned into a naked blue alien instead of a Disney movie.

Not that I'm skipping out on Avatar. James Cameron could make a 4-hour-long documentary about paper clips and I'd still go see it.
 
Uncle Lupe

Uncle Lupe

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Just watched the trailer for Avatar, huh? This movie looks stupid, I smell another Waterworld success. 400 million for this!
So we have achieved interplanetary travel, mind melding with human hybrids and raping the rain forest(perfected on Earth) but are still limited to using propellant driven chemical explosive weapons? Lame. Where are the energy based weapons?
 
Bairstow

Bairstow

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Uncle Lupe said:
Where are the energy based weapons?
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In Buck Rogers movies, for one.
Without several quantum leaps in battery technology, chemical propellants will remain the most effective way of powering ranged weapons for the foreseeable future. Actual science aside, and probably more importantly, Cameron seems to be aiming for the kind of familiar/fantastic combination of technology seen in his own Aliens or the Halo or Starcraft video games. Besides, everyone knows you can't have US Marines without guns.
 
Uncle Lupe

Uncle Lupe

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Bairstow said:
In Buck Rogers movies, for one.
Without several quantum leaps in battery technology, chemical propellants will remain the most effective way of powering ranged weapons for the foreseeable future. Actual science aside, and probably more importantly, Cameron seems to be aiming for the kind of familiar/fantastic combination of technology seen in his own Aliens or the Halo or Starcraft video games. Besides, everyone knows you can't have US Marines without guns.
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I would just figure that if we can travel the stars, then I could have a freakin "laser" gun. :drevil: Apparently Duracell dropped the ball.

So I guess a practical electric car has not been built in the future either. :cry:

I enjoy fantasy, space, gun filled movies but this is out there.
 
KeithVH

KeithVH

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Uncle Lupe said:
Where are the energy based weapons?
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Our robot overlords of the future do not choose to allow us to have them?

But seriously folks - chew on this one. Nobody has seen either film yet except a few key critics. By most accounts Avatar is expected to be a real winner. OTOH, I have seen at least a few comments that, while PATF has great traditional 2d and a somewhat interesting storyline, it doesn't have the "feeling" (my word) that earlier animated classics did.

I could be totally wrong. Based on what I'm reading here people have already made their decision how Disney can do no wrong but one of the top 5 living directors has dropped $230M on such an obvious flop (no it's not $400M).
 
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autigger

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imagineer boy said:
Now the movie looks fantastic and the reviews are looking great but I'm really very concerned for the release date. Becase it opens nation wide on December 11, but just a week later Avatar opens. And avatar WILL crush everything else at the box office when it opens and I'm afraid it will take Princess and the Frog with it.

Any thoughts on this? Because I really want PatF to be a success so Disney can make more traditionally animated movies.
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Don't worry.

Princess and the Frog was outstanding and will have exceptional word-of-mouth.

The next two weekends will be HUGE for Disney.

This wekend was merely the set-up for when kids get out of school next week.
 

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