She is blue, and she does kick ass, doesn't she?
Unfortunately, watching the new Uhura as a twelve-foot-tall, blue Na'vi taming a Toruk and the sheer beauty and special effects of this movie were the only thing that kicked ass. Oh, I was entertained visually for the entire time so it wasn't a total loss, but even a five-year-old can figure out the plot after a mere ten minutes. Let's see... boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl wants boy to become part of her world, the world that you know is in impending doom. Let's see, didn't James Cameron run this plot before... something about a boat that hits an iceberg?
I don't understand that man, Cameron. He had the strong female acting talent of Sigourney Weaver, CCH Pounder (barely used), and whatshername, Uhura and this is what he came up with? Weaver on The Daily Show told Jon Stewart that Cameron's been dreaming of this movie since he was 13. That's evidently when he came up with the plot for this movie as well. Avatar took three years to make - understandably so with all those great, fantasy-like scenes, but you would think Cameron could hire some cerebral script writers in that amount of time. C'mon, throw the bored-with-mainstream-movie-goers in the crowd a bone, would ya? Look, if The Matrix with it's ground-breaking camera effects can also challenge you to think about things a little, than so could have Avatar. I sat in the theater dreading the impending war which I knew was going to take place, even looking at my watch wondering just how much time we were going to have to sit through the asshole guys with the big guns saying, "git 'r done." Ugh. What a disappointment. All that potential was right in Cameron's grasp and you didn't even know the boat was going to sink this time. He could have done anything, took us anywhere, something new, something exciting, told a story we haven't heard before. But, nope. It's a different world, same story.
I know what you're thinking... (again) and you're right. Cameron will probably be up on stage again, this time putting the end of his braid into a newly-gained Academy Award, and raking in even more bucks than he is already and that's his justification. Well, only if you're into that whole fame and fortune thing.
As for my Halloween costume, it will remain the only thing in this post that you can't predict.
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That was a pretty clear eyed assessment of the movie. Most of what I've read about it seems to amount to fanboy gushing over special effects, which to me are usually the least interesting part of any movie. I'm looking forward to Gentlemen Broncos being in wider release, lots of good actors in a quirky little story sounds like something worth seeing.
Thank you for that review--that's pretty much what I figured it was going to be. I've watched the trailers enough to feel like I don't need to see the movie.
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