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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Although I didn't find the creatures ugly, I did find most of the artwork, or whatever it would be properly called, to be rather off-putting. The main character stepping on the vegetation and it lighting up was a rather childish idea and poorly done. The images of the landscape showing a forest in fog seemed rather amateurish. The facial expressions of the blue people were cartoonish. I'm guessing that a lot of money was spent on technical delivery of the images we see and not on artistry. Aside from the spectacle of it all, I am puzzled what people see in the movie.
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Nearly every review of the film is the same. Plot is bland, acting so-so, but the 'experience' is astounding. It doesn't hold up well as a film or a story once you take away the hype and the glasses. Then again, and I've said it before, Cameron is not a good screenwriter, it was his partnership with Gale Anne Hurd that brought out the best scripts. She brought all the intelligence, the emotion and the heart to the stories that made Cameron famous.
The worst thing about all this is that we're going to see a glut of 3D 'event' movies over the next few years as the bankrupt minds in Hollywood latch onto another fad. The only place to see any real stories anymore is in the indie offsprings of the majors, like the stuff that comes out of Sony Classics and Focus. That, and of course, the indie produced stuff itself. Slamdance starts soon, and that always has some good films worthy of attention:
http://www.slamdance.com/