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Movies and TV / Re: AVATAR
« on: January 20, 2010, 07:32:39 AM »Being entertaining is the name of the game, so I don't get how you can say it isn't a "good" movie after your first sentence it's contradictory.
Rubbish. Plenty of media can be entertaining in a kneejerk, reactive sort of way without actually being good. One of the most entertaining experiences I've had at the movies in recent years was sitting in a packed theatre on the opening night of Snakes on a Plane, but that was still a TERRIBLE movie.
Avatar didn't do anything remotely noteworthy besides pushing visuals to levels greater (and more expensive) than ever.
Well, I guess the insane amount of money it's making is also noteworthy, but I believe you get my meaning.
I personally liked the story from Avatar, even if it was unoriginal.
It was indeed unoriginal, but that's not necessarily surprising. Virtually everything is just re-packaging an existing story; the challenge is to do so in an interesting, innovative, engaging way. This was Pocahontas in space, it didn't even really try to do anything interesting other than visuals, because the creators figured (correctly, unfortunately) that they didn't need to.
Saw it for the third time, though in 2D this time. I missed the 3D, actually, but it still hit every chord right on the button. People were behind me saying "Awesome!" or laughing at the precise moments I knew things were going to happen. To me, I think this is the success of the film.
I'd say that just means it was painfully predictable