Great effects, awful plot.
The storyline is recycled from movies like Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, etc...very predictable and very little originality.
Great effects, awful plot.
The storyline is recycled from movies like Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, etc...very predictable and very little originality.
Probably a great movie with a headful of mushrooms....
This movie is a classic case of people seeing what they want to see. I for one, just saw it as a visually stunning, kind of mindless entertainment flick. No more, no less.
ConcernedAmerican wrote:
I watched it last night on HBO for the first time. It made me sick thinking that children are being brainwashed by this movie. We are turning our once proud people into a nation of cowards.
Yes, better to show them the "Duke" in 'The Green Berets'.
It's meant for the big screen. I can't see the point of watching in on TV.
froshy wrote:
Great effects, awful plot.
The storyline is recycled from movies like Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, etc...very predictable and very little originality.
Those are all recycled from older stories which are recycled from still older ones. Your frame of reference is shallow.
I would think that having a tail that plugs into another animal so you become "one" with it would count as slightly better technology than what was shown by the invaders in the movie.
simple-minded ex-marine wrote:
As an ex-military guy with hazardous duty experience, I thought it was just an entertaining visually impressive, classic, good guy saves people from bad guys and wins the girl story. Did I miss something?
What does having been in the military with hazardous duty experience have to do with how you feel about a movie like this?
How can a movie be cowardly? I don't see how something lacking sentience can be described by that adjective.
Sort of a funny story about Avatar. I asked the neighbors, who had recently seen the movie, if they thought it was appropriate for an 8 year old.
Their reply was a resounding thumbs down. "Why, was there too much violence?" I inquired. "No, no, there really was no violence to speak of in the movie. It was the celebration of pagan rituals that made it inappropriate for kids. Lots of tree worshipping and stuff like that."
"Oh, ok, well, I guess I'll take my 8 year old to see it then."
After sitting through all the violence I have to admit that I was let down by all the "pagan tree worshipping".
froshy wrote:
Great effects, awful plot.
The storyline is recycled from movies like Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, etc...very predictable and very little originality.
Yeah, Dances With Wolves in the future.
Like Titanic, after the visual onslaught gets old, a huge yawn.
My high school cross-country coach from 1965 said it best:
Dances With Wolves Meets Blue Man Group.
I preferred the Western.
I saw that movie two decades ago, it had Kevin Costner and a wolf named Two Socks.
Perhaps Cameron should have made it in the image of Blackhawk down. An incident where 18 Americans and thousands of Somalis died that was somehow construed as one of the darkest hours/defeats for the American military.
It is the same story as Pocahontas. It just made a lot more money because of the special effects.
The fundamental flaw in all of your arguments is that they are wrong. Avatar is a sweet movie; this is not an opinion it is a fact, and therefore cannot be refuted.