Poll: James Cameron's Avatar?
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I thought it was rather ~meh. It was okay as a movie, but it was not the amazing revelation that people said it was. Add to that that it's plot was unoriginal, cliched, and not very well written, the acting seemed to be passable at best, it held nothing to keep my interest. It was just pretty. That's it. That said, I am looking forward to more being done with universe. Pandora was an interesting place, and I am looking forward to see what is going to be done with it in the future.
I liked it. I don't really ask for much in a movie, I like to just turn off my mind and be entertained for a couple of hours by flashing lights and Avatar provided very well. Yeah the story was average but there were 3D blue cat people riding birds to fight space shuttles. Worth my £8.
The best part were the badass sideways helicopters. If there had been more sideways helicopter scenes where they were flying around looking badass or fucking shit up with rockets and shit, the movie would have been better. It still would not have been a good movie, though. It told a story we've heard dozens of times, but it presented it like it was the most original, unique and insightful thing we'd ever seen. It was aggressively dumb; it had one of the worst and least sophisticated political critiques I've ever seen, and the script was god-awful and built almost entirely upon cliches.
If Avatar had been, perhaps, a 20-minute short film, I would have thought it was brilliant.
If Avatar had been, perhaps, a 20-minute short film, I would have thought it was brilliant.
It was Pocahontas with an entire Fort Knox of money. Once you look through the beautiful images, you see the real reused setting over and over. Nature good, humans bad.
True, but it doesn't make it any less of an ass pull IMO. It's like Mufasa's great circle of life, or any other nature movie. The ending doesn't have a true basis to happen and make it natural. Why would the animals team up... HOW did they know who to attack? We thought this entire movie they were their own beasts and now, THE GREAT ONE says "yeah, you're out of here".brainless_fps_player said:
It's quite literally DEM.
My opinion, if they had done more to make the Magnetic field interfere with the planes and knock them down, or ya know... Make it rain and force the humans into a ground battle? That is more believable. But the suspense of how they won is lost if it makes the audience go.. Wait, what?
I lost interest in Cameron's films after Terminator 2; great movie and one of my all time favorites.
I hated it.
Sure it looks good, but honestly it was not worth sitting through for 2 and a half hours. I got bored of the "fantastic" visuals, which incidentally gave me a sore head. The plot wasn't up to scratch and the characters were unlikeable. That, in my book, is a bad film.
Sure it looks good, but honestly it was not worth sitting through for 2 and a half hours. I got bored of the "fantastic" visuals, which incidentally gave me a sore head. The plot wasn't up to scratch and the characters were unlikeable. That, in my book, is a bad film.
I really like it. in my opinion Avatar is the same kind of movie that the first star wars film is. There really isn't that much going on plot wise but the story stays simple enough and the visuals are amazing. I do think that its something that has to be experienced in the theaters to get the full effect though.
James Cameron works under the assumption that basic things like script and plot can be replaced with computer generated effects. Sure the CGI was good, but the script and plot was awful. I watch a film for a good story, not for effects.
I thought it was a terrible, terrible movie. I don't mind anyone enjoying it, I mean, you guys liked it, that's great, there are some parts to the movie I found pretty cool. But, all in all, I hated this one.
It was "meh" but I certainly wasn't watching the watchmen, that would be ironic, "watching" the "watchmen".
Well, I didn't really care about it much when it first came out, But I eventually decided to go watch it... and by go I mean watch a DVD I had borrowed from a friend. Whe I watched it I found the romance plot too similiar to another of his movies, Titanic.
Overall I gave a resounding "meh", not caring about the characters at all.
Overall I gave a resounding "meh", not caring about the characters at all.
I found it highly inoffensive and a simple good time. Good story (even if it's been done before ... Pocahontas was an amazing movie. Seriously.), good effects, fine actors. It was good. I wouldn't say most amazing movie ever, but I also don't feel like I wasted my money. And I'm stingy. And I saw it in 3D in theatres. And 3D is offensively priced. And I STILL didn't think I wasted my money. So there's something to be said for that.