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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I still haven't seen Avatar, but many of the animated 3D films I have seen recently have been excellent. I'm thinking of films like Up, Monsters vs. Aliens, and Coraline (which I saw in 2D, but is was a 3D movie). They had heart, and scripts that could be appreciated by all age groups.
Of course, having an 10 year old grandchild living with us has helped determine many of our recent movie night decisions.
The new 3D is far superior to the old stuff, and I see no reason why it can't be taken seriously by serious film makers. Done right, and used as another tool in the arsenal rather than the centerpiece of the film, it can enhance the story and bring a new dimension of reality to the movie going experience.
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There's the problem I have with Avatar in a nutshell...the CGI isn't used properly. It's jarring going from one environment to the other, and it has that 'silver' sheen that most CGI tends to have now. Let's forget the pathetic story of Avatar for a moment (which has been argued quite more elquently by others as just another 'white man saves the day' fable akin to Disney's racist Pochahontas retelling or the 70's 'Man Called Horse' franchise) and focus on the effects themselves. If Avatar had been all Na'vi from the beginning, no human counterpoint, I might have felt more immersion, but as it stands the character design and CGI doesn't work in counterpoint. It's too distracting. It's too cartoonish, and add the simplistic and ridiculous storyline to that and you have, what I think, is a hollow film.
To be frank, I probably wouldn't have liked this film if all the glaring flaws weren't present and it had been shot traditionally. I'm not a big 'action sci-fi' person and I can't remember an outright Fantasy that I enjoyed. And this, if everyone is honest, isn't sci-fi, it's a fantasy film.
Now
this is CGI I can get behind
