Avatar

[samvara]

Avatar was unbelievably pretty; the 3D effects were gorgeous and well integrated although I now have a pounding headache.

The movie itself was composed of the most humiliating, colonial, imperialist, sexist, capitalist, racist, militarist montage I have ever seen. I haven't felt the urge to walk out of a movie in years but I hung in there hoping miserably for a magical fix that didn't come. I am embarrassed on behalf of the human race.

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[copracat]

One day the world will recognise that Gale Anne Hurd was responsible for anything good about Aliens and the Terminator series and Cameron will be tossed onto the George Lucas scrapheap where he belongs.

[sara]

Yeah, C's got tomorrow off work, and he said, "Hey, we could go see Avatar!" and I said, "Or we could save seventeen dollars and stay home and hit ourselves in the faces with hammers for free!"

[ironed_orchid]

Wow. I mean, I didn't expect to see any good reviews, but wow.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

That's so disappointing. *sigh* When I saw the promo it looked like it could be so damn awesome, I knew they'd fuck it up. *big sigh*

[angriest.livejournal.com]

If I disagree entirely with your opinion, I'm worried it's going to make me look like a colonial imperialist who loves capitalism, the military and hates people who do not share my skin colour.

But I do - I disagree entirely, and I'm getting genuinely unsettled that I've now seen and loved a film twice in one week that's almost certainly my favourite film of the year, and apparently it's stuffed to the gills with all this terrible stuff that I honestly can't percieve. In fact I feel the opposite in many regards - such as the military being there to make millions of dollars, and the film very clearly demonstrates to its audience that it's a bad thing. Surely that makes it the opposite of militarist and capitalist?

[amarillion.livejournal.com]

I thoroughly enjoyed Avatar last night. I miffed mildly at some character deaths, but otherwise barely noticed being far too happily wrapped up it the pretty and hawt.
It has Sigourney Weaver innit. That made my year. The scenery was so breathtakingly gorgeous that after the first few minutes I stopped remember it was cgi.
As for the story? Well from what I understand the story came second to the Scenery and Worldbuilding.
Also I seem to lack enough empathy to give a shit about the apparent issues in it. Because I seriously wanted that bigger pterodactyl And the big kitty, definitely the big kitty.
Flashy cgi, good guys won, bad guys lost, that all I can ask from a big budget movie. You want introspection and wise words on the state of humanity, then your better of sticking to indie films.