It will undoubtedly be eclipsed by a newer fx-heavy SF film with more weighty themes. Wait what am I saying?
Yes, Good Night and Good News is very memorable. 
Avatar is fun escapist entertainment. I love Terminator, T2, and Aliens as well. And those movies are pretty much of a kind with Avatar. I mean, T2 has some laughably bad dialogue and acting but it also has some very cool action sequences and special effects. That’s why people love it, not for a well-crafted plot or thought-provoking ideas. It’s about a killer robot chasing after a kid who’s protected by another robot. It was so predictable, right down to the final battle between the good robot and the bad robot.
At least Avatar makes an attempt to be more than just 'splosions and chases. Yes, the environmentalism is very heavy-handed and the villain is one-dimensional and I wish those aspects of the movie were different. But I like the love story and the whole concept of the entire ecosystem having a kind of group consciousness is, while not original, still interesting. The visual effects are really amazing and they are an integral part of the experience, but they don’t feel like a gimmick. Contrast with other special-effects-heavy movies like the Transformers movies. I haven’t seen the latest one, but the first two are absolute crap. I’d rather watch *Avatar *another hundred times rather than have to sit through either of those again.
All that having been said, there are many, many movies I like a lot more than Avatar. You are certainly not obligated to like it yourself. There are plenty of previous threads with people expressing opinions that are the same as yours. You watched it, you didn’t like it, move on.
With a bit of luck, I’ll never see either film property again.
The movie just completely failed to engage me. Acting, plot, general goofiness, etc. Even the 3D didn’t work well for me, be it because of the technical limitations of the film/theater or because of some physiological issue with myself. But I’ve been more impressed with the “Journey to the Sea!” movies at amusement parks and museums from a 3D perspective. Other big effect summer movies have kept me amused (Iron Man & Dark Knight for example) so it’s not impossible to make a blockbuster that I enjoy. Nor unreasonable for me to want to enjoy my movies beyond “But it was mindless pretty-world!”.
any movie you watch because of the special effects isnt any good either.
Avatar is the only movie I have ever in my life told people to go see because of the effects…at an Imax…in 3d.
but yeah the movie kinda sucked.
I liked the movie a lot. I thought it was pretty and fun and different. Special effects were cool.
It was a beautiful movie for the effects, but the plot was lame and it slowly sucked itself into a black hole of suckitude.
The “locked the protagonist in a refrigerator and threw it over a shark” moment for me was the montage of ‘raising the other tribes’, when he actually says “for your children, and your children’s children” and then stands there bobbing his head and grinning like a moron while they all go nuts.
Ever been out with a girl so stunningly gorgeous, while you’re with her you don’t notice that everything she says is boring, shallow, and trite? Avatar in 3-D is like that.
Never cared, sure. Never noticed, not really.
I watched the whole thing last week for the first time, and it was evident to me that I’d missed out on something by not seeing it in 3D. If it ever re-runs in theaters in 3D I’d probably go check it out.
What’s a video store?
Netflix has it.
We liked it okay but thought it good just to see once.
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yet another thread bashing Avatar? is this going to be a seasonal affair? the show has become more than just the technology showpiece it was supposed to be.
I enjoyed watching it in the cinema, but I haven’t bothered to re-watch it since. It isn’t a subtle film. Plot, character and acting wise, I felt it was pretty average, but good enough to hold it together (I’ve seen far, far worse in action movies). I completely understand the negative comments it gets.
I’ve said it before, movie enjoyment is almost a binary. Either you get immersed in the experience, or something breaks suspension of disbelief, and that’s it.
Most stuff anyone says is never as exciting, profound and insightfull as they think it will be.
I didn’t like it, but what I’m hearing is that it’s really more of a Disney ride than a movie. Is that it?
As a monoc I can’t see 3-D. Having said this it was still an impressively rendered virtual world, the movie was full of precisely rendered beautiful elements . It could have been much more if there was some subtlety and intelligence in the story, but the plot was as ham handed and one dimensional as anything George Lucas could have cooked up, which was a shame as there were a lot of interesting and different directions he could have gone.
That’s the defense of it after you give up on defending the acting, plot, characters, etc.
I personally don’t buy the idea that Cameron only wanted to make a pretty high tech picture and didn’t attempt to make a good movie in its own right if only because I’d like to respect him more than I do Michael Bay. Seems easier to just admit that he failed in the one regard despite his efforts and the result was the “Disney ride” that has to be seen in giant 3D to be appreciated.
Oh yeah. It sucks heavily. If I needed to understand the “Trail of Tears” or how we friggin’ “'Murcans” ripped the world out from under the natives to whom it belonged to then yeah, I guess I’d watch it.
But I * know* that shit, so I don’t need to watch that shit, pretty little flying blues or not.
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