Avatar: Movie Review

Neoavatara ^ | December 18, 2009 | Neoavatara

[Neoavatara]

ames Cameron decade long production of Avatar finally came to the big screen on Friday. With the cutting edge technology and 3D special effects, Cameron tried to bring the alien world of Pandora from his mind's eye to the movie theater.

[1776 Reborn]

“The artistry is beyond beautiful; it is stunning. This is the first movie that I can truly say takes true advantage of 3-D. The problems is, the story is utilitarian at best. There is 2 1/2 hours of cutting edge cinematography, and not one minute of cutting edge drama. As a science fiction movie, it achieves its goal; as a story telling vehicle, it falls just a little bit short.”

Ouch, 2 1/2 hours! Better take a 12 pack and a stadium cushion.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

A hybrid white/person of color appointed by the predominantly white capitalist society to infiltrate and reconcile the people of color to the ways of the larger society instead becomes an agent of change to bring down and destroy the predominantly white capitalist society.

Where have I seen this movie before?

Oh yes, it was the 2008 election.

[rstrahan]

It’s all about the imagery, not the story. Same imperialist vs good-guy natives crap rehash. The technology is greatness, and I’ll see it, but only once, just for the visuals.

Now, maybe they’ll do Dragonriders of Pern or some other story that actually has action and a good story.

[supremedoctrine]

MY PREDICTION IS: it will have a good, if slightly disappointing opening week, and tank from there , as the biggest disaster in Movie History, money- wise.
Extremely foolish to expect, in this economy, that people are going to rush to this kind of fantasy. AVATAR’S demise will run parallel with the tumbling fall of both Obama, and Tiger Woods. Good things come in threes.

[poobear]

“AVATAR
Get Rid of Human Beings Now!
AVATAR is a visually stunning, but slow, shallow and abhorrent, science fiction adventure pitting evil human capitalists against heroic, spiritually sensitive aliens on the planet Pandora, who worship a false diety and nature. Too graphically intense for children, AVATAR has an abhorrent New Age, pagan, anti-capitalist worldview that promotes goddess worship and the destruction of the human race. “

MovieGuide - Review gave it a -4.

[GonzoGOP]

A hybrid white/person of color appointed by the predominantly white capitalist society to infiltrate and reconcile the people of color to the ways of the larger society instead becomes an agent of change to bring down and destroy the predominantly white capitalist society.

An earlier thread called it Dances with Thunder Smurfs. I just can't do better than that.

[CharacterCounts]

Haven't read many reviews. Just enough to determine its core premise is anti-capitalism.

I do not pay to see anti-capitalist message movies.

[my small voice]

Amen to that. Saw trailers.....digital is digital. Doesn’t look like humans at all. An expensive cartoon. I hope they fail big!

[GonzoGOP]

Extremely foolish to expect, in this economy, that people are going to rush to this kind of fantasy

I don't know. IIRC 1977 hand a miserable economy and was in the middle of the Carter years. Star Wars didn't do badly. Of course that was a story about people who didn't just whine about their problems but actually fought back against the tyrannical government that was oppressing them. Oh and the pacifists on Alderan who didn't own weapons and refused to fight. They got blown up as an example to others. Even Lucas won't make a movie with a radical message like that any more.

Oh and I wanted an RDD2. Come to think of it I still want an R2D2.

[camle]

star wars was uplifting, a tale about good triumphing over evil. from what I’ve read, this one is about us being the evil, and it’s a downer. My prediction is that it would have a good opening weekend, and then fade into oblivion. people don’t like downer movies, particularly ina recession.

[driftless2]

Scripts are everything. If a movie, book, or other medium as such does not have a decent story line and good writing, it fails.

[GonzoGOP]

people don’t like downer movies, particularly ina recession.

BINGO, it isn't the venue, its the message. It could be Sci-fi, Drama, Comic, it doesn't matter. People want to feel better and escape from the bad times. Look at the great sci-fi periods and with the exception of the late 1950s you will see they all took place during economic downturns. And the 50s was largely caused by the end of the war and all the new technology that had just showed up. During roaring economies you get movies where people think they have it all under control, then their world comes apart. Movies like The Matrix, 2001 a Space Odyssey and The Terminator.

This is the wrong time for a movie to say not only are things bad, but your evil and its going to get worse. That just isn't going to sell.

[Secret Agent Man]

I will never watch this propaganda piece of sh1t from Cameron. It is so obvious what he’s done. Unobtainium. Invading for resources (oil, destroying rainforests).

Cameron you can go f@@@ yourself. So glad you decided not to become a US citizen.

[dr_lew]

Check the video clip with Sigourney Weaver at this Decatur Daily site. SW is trying to tell some guy about the sacred trees, and he responds, "What the hell have you people been smoking, they're just damn trees!" in a way that distinctly reminds me of Greg Gutfeld.

[NCCarrs]

Ditto => I may consider watching it ONLY when:

1) it is available via Red Box

2) have absolutely nothing better to do with 2.5 hours of my life

My hope is this debt-heavy POC sinks the limp-wristed Canadian once and for all.

[Philo1962]

Cameron has a habit of making 3-hour epic movies that are visually stunning, but have plots that fail miserably. If you'll recall Titanic, it's really a movie about a couple of teenage mall brats. They spit over the railing, have sex in the back seat of a car, flip the bird to an authority figure, defy a parent, and generally indulge in every action that a teenage bad boy and bad girl would do in the 1990s.

The ship was the real star, and it stole the show.

[dfwgator]

If you'll recall Titanic, it's really a movie about a couple of teenage mall brats.

After the first ten minutes, I'm yelling at the movie screen, "JUST SINK ALREADY!"

[dfwgator]

“We gave this movie, ‘The Finger’” - Sneaking Into the Movies.

[Tublecane]

“As a science fiction movie, it achieves its goal; as a story telling vehicle, it falls just a little bit short.”

Science fiction IS storytelling, you boob.