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Joe D. -> RE: Avatar (1/30/2010 1:25:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
I see everybody's point - however, I must be able to detach more than others. I've seen Dances with Wolves and I've seen Pocahontas - and all I saw when I went to see Avatar was a great story, well told, great graphics, good cinematography and great casting ...
Of course, not everyone saw it that way:
"... 'Avatar' was indeed over-hyped, over-special effected, over-animated, and despite a lot of blue people zooming around on the backs of pimped-out pterodactyls, and despite a surfeit of lanky naked blue bodies, it still managed to be boring. I would say overwhelmingly boring, but the sheer number of brain-jarring explosions made outright sleep difficult.
"'... Avatar' lesson No. 1: No matter how many hundreds of millions are spent on special effects, if there is no story to support them, it's a loser. And the story under 'Avatar's special effects is thinner than Taylor Swift and as exhausted as a marathoner who forgot to carbo load. The 'bad government people try to exploit nature-loving, peace-loving indigenous people' is straight out of any number of high-themed cowboy and Indian movies. Think 'Dances With Wolves' set in a psychotically overgrown jungle.
"'Avatar' lesson No. 2: See lesson No. 1 ...
"As I was leaving the theater, exhausted from quadraphonic explosions and wondering if there really was such a thing as 'The Home Tree,' I bumped into a couple of friends. 'How'd you like it?' they asked.
"'Well,' I said, searching for a suitable non-response, 'it wasn't the worst movie I ever saw.' While evasive, this was true. I saw Titanic."
by Charles Walsh, Connecticut Post
There's more at:
http://m.connpost.com/connpost/db_12482/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=AAC11297C34941D6DB52B64F113C13D5?contentguid=PbEkcybL&detailindex=0&pn=0&ps=4&full=true
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