James Cameron's Avatar

[Scoobes]

Squilliam said:

Reasonable said:
Very good but not great taken purely as a film, its main weakness being characters that are a little too thin and rely overly on preconceived stereotypes - i.e. it's good for what it is, but it's no masterpiece like say 2001.

Technically though, it is a marvel. Pandora is amazing to behold and the 3D is the first I've found worthwhile - i.e. not a gimmick. I'm glad it's doing good numbers, as it is in no way a bad movie - Transforms 2 is my idea of a bad movie - but hope that Cameron will take more narrative risks in any sequels, and focus on a more original story.

8.5/10 overall for me. Very good, with the visuals and solid if unoriginal story covering over the cracks in the dialogue.

The brilliance in the movie was in making people care enough about CGI characters and bringing an alien world and its people to life in a way that a wide range of people can understand and accept at a logical and emotional level. Most stories have been told and most movie goers have seen pretty much every variety of character imaginable especially if you break them down into bullet points.

The quality of the movie to me is not the critical reviews, its the fact that I went yesterday and two screens showing the movie were both sold out and the fact that they sold more tickets in the second week than the first. They had to rely on stereotypes to give people a starting point, because the whole world couldn't be alien or people simply could not relate. A stereotype is a needed shortcut here to speed familiarity, and these were all well acted stereotypes as well.

P.S he upped his badass female count to 3, womens lib would love this movie!

I think you hit the nail right on the head Squilliam. Good post!