Posted on 12/13/2009 2:22:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Absent from the big screen for over a decade now, Oscar-winning director James Cameron returns armed with a reported half-billion dollars, a story he’s been desperate to tell for 15 years, and the very latest in cutting-edge visual technology. The result is “Avatar,” a sanctimonious thud of a movie so infested with one-dimensional characters and PC clichés that not a single plot turn – small or large – surprises. I call it the “liberal tell,” where the early and obvious politics of the film gives away the entire story before the second act begins, and “Avatar” might be the sorriest example of this yet. For all the time and money and technology that went into its making, the thing that matters most – character and story – are strictly Afterschool Special.
What a crushing disappointment from one of our most original and imaginative filmmakers.
Set in 2154, “Avatar” is a thinly disguised, heavy-handed and simplistic sci-fi fantasy/allegory critical of America from our founding straight through to the Iraq War. Sam Worthington is Jake Sully, a paraplegic Marine Corporal sent to the planet Pandora after the untimely death of his brother. In a plot-thread built up to promise much that never pays off, Sully has none of the training his brother benefitted by: years of schooling in the Avatar Program to prepare him to infiltrate the indigenous species of Pandora called the Na’vi, who are the only things between Earth’s RDA (Resources Development Administration) and a precious energy resource “ironically” called Unobtainium.
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I could tell from the trailers it just Dances With Wolves on another planet with Blue Indians.
but the stupids will lap it up..
Hot blue chick is 10 feet tall
that could present some difficulties for your fantasy Rocco.
Interesting. Contrarianism for its own sake seems to be your schtick. Some folks are talking about a book they don't like, and then you chime in to say you've read it multiple times and plan to read it more. Earlier in the thread you boasted that you plan on seeing Avatar multiple times, apparently for no other reason than the fact that others are saying they won't see it. Way to be, son!
I saw a trailer for it about a month or so ago. You got the entire essense of the politics of the movie very quickly. I knew this would be one I would be avoiding with ease.
Murdoch is hyping the special effects...not the content..
I saw the 15 minute promo in a theatre with the 3D glasses. It’s very impressive from a technological perspective. It will be pretty awesome in IMAX. All of that will be lost on the small screen.
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
This is your opinion. I have mine. I don't mind if you watch tv. This is the point. Just as I'm sure you don't mind if I choose not to have a television in my life.
It's just like if you want to go to a restaurant and have a steak. How would you react if some treehugging PETA activist came up beside you as you walked to the restaurant from your car and started giving you their spiel about 'meat is murder'? Maybe you'd hang out with 'em and chat to 'em. Personally, I'd tell 'em to shut the f--- up and mind their own business. This is all I'm doing here. I don't see where anybody figures it's there business to ask my how I justify spending money on a movie. That's not a question a freedom loving person would ask of another.
I'm happy you disagree with me. If you don't want to see the movie, I'd never try to talk you into seeing it. I'd never try to tell you what books to read. Which television programs to watch. How to think. How to spend your money.
Where's the problem?
I don't care if any of this bothers you or not. I'm not your friend. Nor do I want to be. I'm not here to make buddies.
Thank you for your comments though.
Since the movie doesn’t come out until later this week, I assume he works in the industry if he saw it 4 months ago.
LOL. I thought they were the ones being contrary to me ;-) Now, I know- I must measure myself against THEM. As if their views are the norm and mine are the contrary ones. There I was thinking it was the other way around.
I read the book. It was one of my favorite reads- although I will admit is a damned peculiar book. So what?
And as far as seeing the film multiple times, sure I plan to if it's good. So what? Some people say they aren't planning to see it. I am planning to see it. Why is my opinion the one that gets hammered? Why shouldn't the ones not seeing it get hammered? Better yet, why should anyone get hammered for wanting or not wanting to see a film? It's stupid. I mean it's really stupid.
Maybe it's just me, maybe I just come from an age when people have more respect for one another or maybe it was just a peculiar family tradition (minding one's business) but what I think would be ideal is for people to decide for themselves what to see without a bunch of supposedly free minded people getting their knickers in a twist and to start harping about why anyone would want to go and see this or that film. There's no official film list for us is there? And if there is, let me the f---- off this ride please. Who gets to decide? I say I get to decide for myself. Is there a committee around here who says what films we should go and see? I don't think so.
Say what you want about it man. But I am not ashamed of the fact that I get bristly when people try the whole group-think out on me. I'm not the one that should be ashamed.
It's ok I noticed, to be contrarian on some issues. Like Man-made climate change. I am a contrarian there. But that's ok yeah? You're ok with me being contrary on that issue yes? But I still get to decide for myself either way.
Why pay good money to see his blue cousins?
That’s the spirit!...with your moniker it should be a snap.
Fox News just ran another 10 minute lovefest for Avatar an hour or two ago. They spent 10-15 seconds mentioning there might be controversy over some plot lines with some viewers and then the rest of the segment was talking about how wonderful it was. I try to avoid Fox News for the most part, but even I’ve noticed they’ve definitely got a pro-Avatar slant, befitting their status of being a part of Murdoch’s business.
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