Avatar: The Review!!
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O.K. I admit it, I didn?t go to see Avatar in 3D. I didn?t even see it in the cinema. I watched it when my friend loaned me his Blu-Ray. I couldn?t deal with the hype of it all, it pushes me away from movies rather than towards them.
So I settled down with high hopes from this technologically groundbreaking movie and wasn?t disappointed??with the technology. The movie part on the other hand was a different story all together, or not as the case may be!
There is no doubt that Avatar looks great, sounds great and has developed movie making techniques massively but in doing this James Cameron sorely neglected the most important things in film??a good cast and a good story.
Avatar is all mouth and no trousers. The plot is wafer thin and you can guess what is going to happen within the first five minutes. At no point did I catch myself wondering what was going to happen next because it is so predictable. Also if you have seen Dances with Wolves you have seen Avatar, just with less blue people in it.
The Characters are so stereotyped it?s laughable. Idealistic good looking hero: Check. Grizzled battle scarred Army badass: Check. Evil Corporate money grabbing git: Check. Hard as nails Latino lady: Check. I wouldn?t have minded but the cast just can?t pull it off with any conviction. Sam Worthington is so wooden I would have confused him with one of Pandora?s trees if he wasn?t a 7ft tall blue guy for most of the movie, Sigourney Weaver may as well have phoned in her performance for all the good she was. But the worst performance was Stephen Lang as Col. Quaritch, hamming it up to eleven and spewing out jingoistic lines like his life depended on it. Cringe worthy!
The Na?avi themselves were just an incarnation of Native Americans, Vietnamese or Iraqis while the American war machine tries to smash them out of their habitat to ravage the natural resources. Boring boring boring! If I wanted all this Anti-American metaphor crap I would have just read the Daily Mail!
All in all Avatar is a pretty set of pictures with no substance. It may be the highest grossing movie of all time but it is a poor movie with good F/X (Littlemummy’s note: that’s ‘effects’ for us non movie buffs). I shouldn?t have been surprised though as it was Jim Cameron who brought us Titanic! Tell us again Jim, what happens in this movie about the most famous ship sinking ever? Like I said, predictable.
2 STARS
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I totally agree! It was beautiful but soulless.
Oh gawd, I show my total lack of movie nous again. I saw it in the cinema (but not 3-D as that does my eyes in) and really enjoyed it. Maybe because the eco-message is so dear to my heart. But I did love those blue people and suspended disbelief and just sank into it. My 11 year old adored it too – though not enough to buy the game, interestingly.
I’m not sure it would work so well on the small screen though…