This summary really does capture the story, puddle deep movie.
Biggest box office hit, but I’ve never met anyone who’s given it more praise than “I don’t mind it”.
I was goong to say it was more a tech demo since they made the insta-CGI machine for it. But then he went and made a second one about abandoning your home, getting your new one in the same trouble, and whales.
I say that Avatar is the cinematic equivalent of having one of those monstrous huge old keyboards with eight hundred different preloaded sounds and instruments and pressing the DEMO button and listening to five minutes of every ridiculous sound effect known to God and Giorgio Moroder, and with about the same artistic merit.
A lot of movies are shallow. This one just rubbed people the wrong way because it was pro environmental.
It rubbed me the wrong way because it’s still the mighty whitey fantasy. White dude comes in and is better at all the native stuff than the natives. It’s just using blue alien sexy placeholders for the aboriginals.
My dad says it’s one of the best movies he’s ever seen, but specifically because we saw it in IMAX 3D and the graphics were outstanding. Beyond that, he agrees with me that it’s just Fern Gully (but without Robin Williams, which instantly makes it worse), which is basically just Disney’s Pocahontas.
It’s either that or people are salty these movies are so successful… But then again, I never see people complaining about how shallow the latest Transformers or Fast & Furious or Jurassic World movie is yet it’s all I see whenever either Avatar movie is mentioned.
I really don’t think that was it, most people have no opinion on it at all.
How could you really take offense to the film? It’s kinda toothless.
How can people who didn’t like the Avatar movies not simply drop it after a while. Their dislike isn’t that it’s shallow. If that was it, they’d have moved on. It’s something else. Their hate has the same kind of vibe as people complaining about “wokeness” in other movies. Hell, I still hear people complaining about the “bad science” and “unrealistic villains” of Captain Planet, but praise 80’s Transformers.
I very much enjoy the first movie. I have watched it several times and still enjoy going back to it. I absolutely agree the plot is puddle-deep, as you said, and it makes no attempt at all to disguise its analogies (“unobtanium”), but it’s mastery is not in the story itself but the way in which it is told. It’s almost operatic in the amount of time it spends within each story beat. The second film failed to do a lot of the things I loved about the first one and was very forgettable.
