Avatar: “A wonder to behold, a story to forget.”
I’m going to make this a quick one. So Avatar has become like the best selling movie and it has set a new standard in the film making industry; but apart from it’s mind blowing CGI, where was the story - the root of the film making industry?
Sigh. For one, I found Avatar seriously lacking in plot development and unoriginal. I mean, come on, reluctant hero + epic adventure + foreign world + verge of death = save the world + fall in love + lives on forever. How is this original, you tell me? It was lengthy and anything else that weren’t visually pleasing, were hard to stomach.
Avatar is truly Hollywood’s ideal revenue model: make an epic blockbuster, get your star ratings, wait 10 years and make another epic blockbuster to get more star ratings. Oh, and try to get a Golden Globe Award for Best Film too so that your next movie and/or sequels will continue to sell. As a movie lover, I find myself sorely disappointed when yet another production fails to deliver the very bare necessities of a good movie - plot and character development.
So tell me, were you yay or nay for Avatar? Are you looking forward to the sequels*?
To sum up, I agree with Charles Koplinski of Illinois Times: Avatar is “A wonder to behold, [but] a story to forget.”
*Sequels to the Avatar remain a speculation.
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January 26th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Yay.
Avatar is awesome. Period. I don’t care if it’s unoriginal, overrated etc etc, but i go into the cinema prepared to be blown away, and man, was I blown away. Sure we’ve heard the story many times, but does that make Dance with Wolves a bad movie? Fern Gully? Pocahontas? They’re all great films even though they have the same plot. Films are being too political these days and many forgot what movies are supposed to do - to entertain. To keep you in your seat for two hours. You may have the best story but if its not gonna look good on screen, it’s not gonna be a good movie. Write a book instead (then again, book-to-movies are becoming the norm these days).
James Cameron is still my hero.
January 26th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Hi JC! Yeap, you are right. But I was sorely disappointed when I watched Avatar, as I went in with high hopes, so this was a rant.
So, what other movies blew you away in 2009? Are you a true blue sci-fi fan or do you go for anything blockbuster?
January 27th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
This is kinda like why some people love Alvin and the Chipmunks and why some people hate it.
Cool animation vs storyline.
Hmmmm.
January 27th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
that was just my opinion. avatar is doing great nonetheless.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8482058.stm