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Dancing_P [ 6.5 ]
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So many damn pages and pixels have been used up talking about Avatar that I find myself at the same spot as I do with everyone of these major blockbusters: somewhere in the middle, regurgitating the same opinion that everyone else has. I agree with the general consensus on Avatar: technologically marvelous, narratively somewhere between a Disney cartoon and an Aesop fable. It's a hoary retread of Ferngully with a Duke Nukem-esque bad guy who spouts tired one-liners but I would be lying if I said it wasn't thrilling at a base level.
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Jeff_Wilder [ 6.5 ]
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Entertaining sure. Has lots of visual pizzazz. But this is one that really HAS to be seen on the big screen. I saw it in a theater and was drawn in. Then some friends who hadn't seen it yet rented it on Dvd/Blu-ray and I sat down to watch it with them. Then the flaws became apparent.
This is a movie full of cheesy dialogue, camp acting and a story that's basically "Ferngully in Outer Space" as a friend put it.
So yes, Avatar is entertaining. But ti lacks what Aliens and the 2 Terminator movies had that elevated them to (or close to) the level of art rather than just dazzling artifice: A heartbeat.
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jeff_v [ 7.5 ]
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Saw this in 3-D (non-IMAX version), and it took me awhile to get used to it. At first it was majorly distracting; my eyes would constantly follow images disappearing off the sides of the screen. Even after I got used to it, I noticed a lot of focus issues (especially heavily foregrounded items). More trouble than it's worth.
Avatar is typical Cameron. Eye-rapingly astonishing from a special effects/technical perspecitve, with exacting detail and a master's sense of how to construct and edit an action sequence (none of this chopping the shit out of it so it becomes incoherent like so many other modern action films). A lengthy running time that does not translate into multi-layered characterizations. Questionable casting (Giovanni Ribisis as a corporate overlord?). Uncomfortable analogies made to the Iraq War; the point we're supposed to take from it is murky and potentially offensive. Still, it's about as entertaining as you'd expect from a cross between Dances with Wolves and The Lord of the Rings.
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| Weighted Rating | : 7.4 |
| No. Ratings | : 11 | |
| No. Reviews | : 7 | |
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