Comments on: Review: Avatar

By: BamaDan

BamaDan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:46:38 +0000

Visually a beautiful movie and a true experience. I’m still waiting for the True 3D effects to do more than show depth. So many times it was *this* close to popping off the screen boundary, but it’s obvious to see better is coming.

It’s like this. I can enjoy a movie just for it being a good experience. City of God is an amazingly well-written, dramatic masterpiece. Avatar is not. But that’s what I expected going in, so I was very pleased with my experience. The numbers don’t lie.

Even Criterion released Armageddon and The Rock on DVD…

By: saintseester

saintseester — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:24:03 +0000

Same plot as Pochahontas, right?

By: Bo

Bo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:48:54 +0000

BB_FAN: I deliberately avoided mentioning that it was a hard-left screed, mostly because the film is eminently convictible without doing so.

I do, however, agree the film is laughably one-dimensional and obnoxious politically.

By: BB_FAN

BB_FAN — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:16:19 +0000

I took the boy to see it this weekend. I also took the girl to see “Princess and the Frog” too. “Princess and the Frog” was MUCH better. It is a classic Disney fairy tale princess movie on par with “Sleeping Beauty” and “Beauty and the Beast.” After having seen Disney’s “Mickey’s Philharmagic”, most all other 3D effects in movies just seem lame and contrived.

While the visuals in Avatar were pretty good, the 3D did not add much to the movie (like almost ALL other 3D movies, see above). It elevates the coolness factor but not much else.

The plot and subsequent message in Avatar was the predictable Hollywood tree-hugger, anti-American, anti-business, anti-military story. To have this movie making millions degrading the Marines while they are simultaneously being sent to Haiti just disgusts me. Had I known what this movie really was, I would not have wasted my money supporting the establishment that makes this kind of drivel.

I am sure it will win dozens of Academy awards.