I'm kind of ashamed to say that I watched Avatar for the second time and actually kind of enjoyed it. I hadn't seen it since the theater. I mean, I enjoyed it the first time, and I still have the same complaints and perhaps several more, but I have to admit that it is extremely compelling and James Cameron makes just about every second quite engaging. The action/fantasy/adventure of it all is what makes it great. He clearly sacrificed some storytelling for it, though. For example: there's no explanation for why Michelle Rodriguez's character suddenly sympathizes with the Na'vi natives. I can think of some ways that they could have developed that so it wouldn't have been so out-of-the-blue. They could have had her witness first-hand some filtering of information to the troops and/or public back on earth so that she might sort of "wake up" (so to speak). So, yeah, as far as the storytelling goes, it's a piece of shit. But in spite of it, it's still extremely entertaining. It helps that I agree with James Cameron's propaganda. I want to see that shit in 3D again. The colors, my god, the colors...
It's different than I thought it would be, and you kind of realize it halfway into the movie, but not different in a bad way. The film relies more on "showing little while creating suspense" rather than just showing the scary thing. I kind of went "WTF?" when it started changing, but I think it's worth a watch.
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
. For example: there's no explanation for why Michelle Rodriguez's character suddenly sympathizes with the Na'vi natives.
I don't think it was so much as sympathising with the Na'vi but more to the point that she didn't sign-up to participate in wanton blood-shed & destruction. Her turning point was no wanting to be part responsible of a massacre.
Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Is The Europa Report any good? I was contemplating it.
Originally posted by siriuswriter
It's different than I thought it would be, and you kind of realize it halfway into the movie, but not different in a bad way. The film relies more on "showing little while creating suspense" rather than just showing the scary thing. I kind of went "WTF?" when it started changing, but I think it's worth a watch.
Originally posted by Esau Cairn
I don't think it was so much as sympathising with the Na'vi but more to the point that she didn't sign-up to participate in wanton blood-shed & destruction. Her turning point was no wanting to be part responsible of a massacre.
But my main point is: it seemed a bit too random and it was a missed opportunity for some more interesting narrative. Instead James Cameron just wanted to have more and more meat-and-potatoes action. It would have taken probably 5 minutes, tops, to give her character a bit more development. I also just don't like Michelle Rodriguez, lol. So, she was a bad choice for the part to me, heh...
Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Is The Europa Report any good? I was contemplating it.
Just saw this the other day, actually:
5 Most Underrated Movies of 2013
It's #1.
Friday the 13th (original 1980)
You know, it actually is pretty good. And even still holds up pretty well despite being a bit retro. My main problem with it was that there really wasn't enough story progression / explanation until like the last 20 or 25 minutes. They wait that long to really explain anything. So it felt very, very, slow-moving.
Are the sequels worth checking out? I imagine that's when the iconic "Jason mask" appears?