I just saw this (in 3D) today, and I'm not thrilled. It was beautiful, the special effects were amazing, and the 3D was almost perfect. I loved all of
that.
What I didn't like was the painfully anvilicious nature of the movie. I have no objection to using a story to prove a point, but there's a certain way
you go about it. You do it subtly, and you make it serve the plot.
Avatar made the plot serve the message, and that just doesn't make for good movie. It dropped its political message on the audience like a pallet of
explosives shoved out of the back of a space shuttle, and I feel the movie was worse for it. If the natives weren't made out to be so much better than
humans in every possible way, and the humans weren't all either main characters or cartoon stereotypes of businessmen and soldiers, I would've liked
this one a lot more. It would've been deep and interesting, instead of shallow and blatant. It would've been a lot more believable, and it probably
would've delivered the political message better, too, by letting the audience figure it out themselves, rather than shoving it down our collective throats.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
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that.
What I didn't like was the painfully anvilicious nature of the movie. I have no objection to using a story to prove a point, but there's a certain way
you go about it. You do it subtly, and you make it serve the plot.
Avatar made the plot serve the message, and that just doesn't make for good movie. It dropped its political message on the audience like a pallet of
explosives shoved out of the back of a space shuttle, and I feel the movie was worse for it. If the natives weren't made out to be so much better than
humans in every possible way, and the humans weren't all either main characters or cartoon stereotypes of businessmen and soldiers, I would've liked
this one a lot more. It would've been deep and interesting, instead of shallow and blatant. It would've been a lot more believable, and it probably
would've delivered the political message better, too, by letting the audience figure it out themselves, rather than shoving it down our collective throats.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.