disappointed in "Avatar"
David Sueme
end about 20% into the movie when the nasty Colonel promises Jake his
legs back. I was all but certain at the 80% mark when the aborigines
fail to permanently transfer the Sigorney Weaver character into her
artificial body. And of course my guess was correct.
And moreover I'm annoyed with how they handled the "Hollywood ending".
After 160 minutes they can't spare another sixty seconds so the
couple can amble off into the sunset? Weak over-reliance on the
"eye-opening" metaphor.
And as to the computer-generated imagery: while it is vast in scope,
it is also rather indistinct in detail.
I just thought I'd make the point that it isn't only Rowling who has
let me down. James Cameron, Terry Pratchett - thank providence I
never gave a crap about the Chicago Cubs.
scenario_dave
Its a step up from most big budget SF movies. The plot was very
predictable but it was logical and made sense. Most big budget SF
movies are just as predictable but have so many obvious plot flaws
that the movies useless.
Most big budget SF plots go something like this.
An meteor is going to hit the earth, let blow it up with an atomic
bomb about 5 minutes before it hits. Duh, like where do all of the
pieces go.
An alien attacks the earth. Lets put design an install a virus in a
totally alien operating system you've never seen before.
At least Avatar made sense.
chipper
There was a war, and many people died,
The na'vi through the humans off their planet, to go home and die,
which was not nice.
The underlying problem was not solved, and people who are dieing get desparate,
and just come back with bigger weapons.
there were a lot of happy endings after WWII, but a lot of sad ones also.
We just tend to here about the happy ones. whilst the sad ones are just buried
in the ground, or in a mental institution.
IMHO
frie...@zoocrewphoto.com
> Avatar did not have a particually happy ending.
>
> There was a war, and many people died,
>
> The na'vi through the humans off their planet, to go home and die,
> which was not nice.
>
> The underlying problem was not solved, and people who are dieing get desparate,
> and just come back with bigger weapons.
When did it say that humans were dying at home? I thought they were
looking for some special ore that would make them rich. It was about
money. I never saw anything that said they needed the ore to survive.
The Na'vi didn't send them away to die. They simply defended their
home and their own lives.
The sad part was that many of their people did die as well as some of
the human characters that we liked. But I would not call this a sad
ending at all.
chipper
Even though the two lover are united in the end, they are united at a tremoundous price.
Even though harry potter wins in the end, it is at a tremoundous price.
We tend to forget the dead, the ones on both sides who gave " the last full measure",
but they are there.
I remember seeing a Nat Geo special on a German u-boat that was sunk in very deep waters off the eastern
coast of the United States. When the boat Number was discovered, it turned out that the sister
of one of crewmen was living only 50 miles away. When she was told, she broke down in tears,
for the love of her brother and I felt her sorrow. (Dont take this as an endorcement of Nazi's,
only of a sisters love of her brother.
One of her other great sorrows was that her brother made it so close to freedom, but never made our shores.
IMHO
Chip
Not a happy ending but an ending.
IMHO
Chip
frie...@zoocrewphoto.com
> In the end of the movie, the movie says they sent the humans back to their dyeing world.
I don't think it was meant that the humans were dying. But that earth
was all cement and grunge as opposed to Pandora, a world that was
truly alive.