... that I wasted watcing "Avatar". I have to wonder, if there are that many people stuck at approximately 2 years old, that such a simplistic, boring and painfully cliched, derived, and downright stupid story would become the box office sensation of the year... or possibly the decade. The movie is the big screen equivalent of The Real Housewives of Wherever... a pretty surface hiding the fact that the inside has neither mind nor heart.
Look, I'm not railing against the special effects. They were, without doubt gorgeous (and yes, I saw it in 3D, so I got the full effect of it). But it was like a lot of embellishment to make up for the meagre plot. Disney did a better job with "Pocohontas"... and to compare this with any Disney movie, is to deal Disney a serious insult. Man meets "native" woman... falls in love, defeats villains, saves the world, gets the girl. Ta-da!
Nothing against simple stories. Sometimes they can be exquisite. Take any Pixar movie; ostensibly made for children, they are far more intelligent, still working off simple plots, they manage to be incredibly original- and the special effects are actually used to illustrate new ideas.
As for "Pandora", I'd argue that all their effects could have been amalgamated from a few episodes of "Earth"... the jellyfish, the rainforests, even the neon plants... so much for an alien world- looks amazingly like ours.
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No way!!..how come no one has commented on such an atrocious posting..:-p..might as well discard those brick bats...or hand them over to the Indian teams scampering around for the IPL league...
There is more to Avatar than just the "simplistic, boring and painfully cliched, derived, and downright stupid story" and the 3D effects.
The visualization of life that evolved on a different planet itself is breathtaking.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43440
@Vayasya - I'm a little skeptical (ok a lot skeptical) that life on another planet could look so similar to life on in our tropical forests- especially given the vast diversity of life on our own world- I'd argue that even Star Trek- pulp as it is- does a better job of visualizing alien life and culture than Avatar
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