Comments on: AVATAR

By: malcolm

malcolm — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:03:31 +0000

On a brief side note – New Moon was a script nightmare. Twilight worked and New Moon was a snoozer. Indigo liked it because….well…it was really made for her, not for her 40 year old father!
BASTERDS! Yes….that was made for me. 2 disk special edition! http://bit.ly/62tmXs

And yes, it’s always more fun for me when it’s a little less cut and dry. I’ve found that life is like this more often than not. It’s not always a clear issue of good v. evil. Another example to add to yours – Gundam anime. Most of the series shows both sides and how each thinks they are in the right. Makes it way more interesting.

By: Francis

Francis — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:22:04 +0000

New Moon! Haha….just empty your brain before you go in and you will have a better time. Like the first one, I can see the appeal, but for old vets like ourselves New Moon is a seat squirmer.

Goats looks fun to me.

I LIKE your idea of bringing Earth’s well-being into play. It’s only a small twist, but still would have been better than what Cameron went with. Besides, isn’t it better when it is HARD to pick a side? I mean, wasn’t one of nice things about Sleepless In Seattle the fact that for once the boyfriend, Bill Pullman, wasn’t some odious prick, and that Hanks was just the better fit for old Meg? Ok, weak example.

But you see what I mean, I think. It just could have been more fun.

Good news is that Basterds is now (or soon?) available for home consumption!

By: malcolm

malcolm — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:59:38 +0000

I see where you’re going with that and agree for the most part. I thought that there could have been some great morality play things going on here. What if there was something on Pandora that would save lives on Earth? THAT would stir stuff up a bit. Lives on one planet for another.
However, I’m rolling off seeing NEW MOON and MEN WHO waste a perfectly awesome cast by staring AT GOATS, so this was SUPER amazing!

By: Francis

Francis — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:51:09 +0000

Whew! I just watched the trailer again and yes, I WILL see it in the theater at least once more. What a neat looking movie.

By: Francis

Francis — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:44:42 +0000

Nice review. I agree with just about everything you said. I enjoyed the film, but in the end I have to give it 4 (maybe 4.5) out of 5 stars, based mostly on the stunning visuals. The story left me a little bit on the empty side, though that’s my jaded, movie-veteran side talking. I dunno! The plot and pacing will please most people and put a lot of butts in the seats. I just wish, I guess, that the film could have just stayed with life on Pandora. It was plenty hazardous there without some trite “capitalism run amok” plot driver. I mean, did we really have to do the amazingly evil military industrial complex thing? The fetishistic boom-kaboom-Ooorah! thing was fun to a certain extent, but has been done to death and I am weary of seeing the natives (ala Native Americans) getting wiped out just so that we in the audience can feel something. Weren’t we already feeling something when exploring Pandora via our own avatar, the main character?

Meh. I am nitpicking. It’s not like I won’t recommend it to everyone I know!