Comments | almostnever: avatar: it's not the worst thing i've ever seen, but only because i watch terrible shit on purpose

almostnever

avatar: it's not the worst thing i've ever seen, but only because i watch terrible shit on purpose

Oct 23, 2010 22:16

We just finally got around to watching Cameron's Avatar, with the aid of an accompanying RiffTrax-- without the riffs, we never would've made it. Even with it, damn, that was hard to sit through. It was so awful ( Read more... )

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garnet_words October 24 2010, 06:50:57 UTC

I did see it in 3D, and I thought it really was very pretty. As for the rest, totally agree: awful, cliche'd story, and Sam Worthington was TERRIBLE.

I really want to hear the Rifftrax now, though.

almostnever October 24 2010, 07:30:06 UTC

Interesting; I wondered if the 3D might cover for some of what I saw as shortcomings in the CG. If everything had depth when I saw it, maybe it wouldn't have looked cartoony to me.

The Rifftrax was fantastic. Solid jokes throughout, and we laughed for two solid minutes at the end... they do a bit that just gets more and more and more ridiculous and funny during the credits.

txvoodoo October 24 2010, 07:51:24 UTC

I still haven't watched it, and now I'm even more glad.

almostnever October 24 2010, 08:03:05 UTC

Seriously: get high, go to the fantasy section of a used bookstore and look at the covers while remembering every action science fiction movie you've ever seen. There, you've basically seen Avatar.

It's the same plot as every crappy blockbuster since Star Wars, and there's not a single word in this movie you haven't heard already said a dozen times in exactly the same way in other films. I really got the sense it was on purpose, too, like Cameron was playing it 100% safe and familiar to convince unimaginative money guys to pay for the CG/3D. Hell, a 15 year old can write this plot and get a $100 million movie made out of it, of course James Cameron can get $500 million to do the same basic tale.

It exasperates me the same way the Star Wars prequels exasperate me. So much money and resources and talent were available to Lucas and Cameron: they could have made anything, they could have hired amazing writers and designers to create something really special. Instead they both turned out crap that's limited by their own personal ( ... )

txvoodoo October 24 2010, 08:08:06 UTC

I think this is why I'd just rather read most of the time anymore. Or watch tv. Both books and tv are kicking movies' asses.

And I don't even get high anymore :( Maybe half the stuff I remember from my youth wouldn't be as cool as memory makes me think it was!

I haven't been able to watch the SW prequels. They just look like ...junk. Exploitation.

avatar elderwitty October 24 2010, 08:33:39 UTC

A 15 year old did write it. Cameron said, in one of the innumerable specials attending its release, that this was something he came up with in his teens.

I haven't seen it, and I won't. Not just 'cause of all the white male Euro privilege crap that it spews, but because it also looked like shit. It's The Last Samurai Dances with Wolves in a Hard Drive in Outer Space (with Noble Savages in Awed Attendance).

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with no love for this dreck.

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