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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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.
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Like
Aliens?
Avatar, like Cameron's immensely popular
Aliens, is simply an action film, 2009's answer to
Star Wars (and without Hurd's co-writing). As such, it really doesn't matter that the script isn't deep or inspired... it's simply the vehicle, the spectacle's the thing. Personally, I enjoyed it, and I liked the Pandora environment (obviously patterned after marine animals and environments... I think of Pandora as a "water world without the water"), and I wasn't bothered by the "blue people".
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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.
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Maybe. But they are also offering Avatar 2-D, which is how I saw it... and honestly, I don't regret not seeing it in 3-D (for one thing, I'm told the visuals are clearer in 2-D). We may get action-adventure, horror, etc, in 3-D, but it's not needed for every genre... and it's more expensive to-boot. As long as we have movies besides the mega-million blockbusters, we'll have 2-D movies for awhile.
And after all, no one's forcing people to go to the "event" movies... if enough people say "Ehh... I'll pass," the studios will get the message. So it's up to us now.