well I saw Avatar last night and I'm afraid I'm going to have to join the minority of people who did not like it. I posted an earlier link (post # 11) simply because I thought it was amusing, but the sad truth is that its exactly right. True the movie has great special effects but I found the movie itself to be simply awful. Words that were springing constantly to mind as I sat through this drivel were "derivitive", "predictable", "superficial" and, funnily enough, "one-dimensional". You can paint a Volkswagon blue and pretend its a Ferrari but its still just a Volkswagon. The big battle scene at the end was the final straw -- it just kept getting more and more stupid! The script may as well have been crafted with a sledgehammer rather than a pen, especially with regards to the blatant Iraq War connection; apparently James Cameron believes the viewing audience is so dense they need to be beaten about the head with the idea before they get it. Furthermore, the planet is called Pandora, and the mineral they're seeking is called Unobtanium. For crying out loud, was it written by a 12 year old!?
I also noted what Newzooboy did (post #10), namely that every other animal depicted in the movie had six limbs (and hence one can reasonably assume that this is the standard state of affairs in the planet's evolutionary progress) and yet *somehow* what are basically big blue humans managed to evolve there. Unless some idiot is going to say "well that's because intelligent life-forms are created in God's image and therefore the human form is inevitable" this is just plain ridiculous.
Three hours of my life wasted when I could have been drinking petrol instead.
Rant over.
) On another day, that would have ruined it for me and I would have hated it. But not on this day.
