Avatar
I haven’t seen it, and won’t. I don’t have to, I’ve seen “Dances with Wolves”. Vman has what is probably the most perfect review. Steve does a typically remarkable job here.
Why in the world do people- like James Cameron- people who have the money and power to do anything and everything they want, no matter how moral or illegal- feel they can dress up a tired and demonstrably wrong message with megabuck special effects and somehow that will make it true?
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I think Ace of Spades pegged it when he called it “Dances With Smurfs.”
I won’t go see it; it looks like the movie equivalent of jingling your keys to keep a baby happy.
Why?
Why did these same people vote for Obama? White liberal guilt.
Because they live in(and on) Hollywood.
It was entertaining. That’s all the reason I need to visit a cinema.
Entertaing is a good thing for a movie to be, certainly, but it’s not enough if I’m going to be smacked with the wet carp of policital correctness every other scene. Wall-E, for instance, was beautifully done, and the robots were super cute — but the story itself was so dark and depressing that I found the overall experience unpleasant. It’s the only Pixar movie I wouldn’t spend money on again.
Fiona, you enjoy the entertainment for it’s own sake, and you’re smart enough not to get caught up in the ‘Military/corporations are evil” bullshit. And that’s a good thing. For myself, I’m not entertained that way, so the “message” just annoys me. Like Joanna says about “Wall-E”. Not all humans are fat lazy pieces of shit, and the corporations do more to advance civilization than anything else ever could. “Want to send a message?” Sam Goldwyn famously said:”Use western union”.
Og,
Here’s a review that you’ll really enjoy (if you haven’t read it already. It couples the movie very nicely with the Liberal malaise that has infected this country (and western civilization):
The Suicide Fantasy
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/12/22/the-suicide-fantasy/
I’ll swipe it from the net, then not bother to ever see it. Go figure.
No interest whatsoever in the recent gurgling gurgitations from Tinselgrad, no matter the technosphere. I can skip Theater – I worked there for the longest, head-troubling time.
DirtCrashr, Tinselgrad is an excellent name for Hollywood. It’s even better than my previous favorite, Hollyweird.