14 yrs? Half a billion dollars? Really?
Maybe the hype for this very pretty looking movie has tainted every review of it since we all know that only something entirely revolutionary could live up to our collective expectations. Personally I didn't see what was so extraordinary about it but something like this is pretty much review proof so here is my personal opinion from someone who has watched nearly everything worth watching in the history of western film.
No argument that it is gorgeous to look at and fills the eyes with wonders we could have only dreamed about 20 years ago. But its not all that special and is let down by a story who's beats can be prediction right down the line. How many times have we seen a hero 'go native', learn to love the 'noble savage' and come to its rescue when faced with the evil that is the 'greed of man'. UGH! You spent all this time working on what you were sending my eyes that you totally cheated me by sending slop to my brain. Maybe if I was 10 this would be a seminal movie in my life, a game changer, but to this adult it was just another holiday blockbuster no different that the one before it or the one I will see after it.
It may not be fair to go back to 'Star Wars' for comparison but that movie was a 'game changer' like this one wants to be. Star Wars gave me a new vision of a new universe of ideas, a new mythology to believe in and ponder. It may have in truth been just a space western but it didn't come across like that to me.
Director/Creator James Cameron had an audience primed for a message about the interconnectedness of all things, a green idea in the time of global climate conferences and he fell back on the tried and true hokum that we have been given so many times. No doubt it will make money and win all kinds of technical awards. I lament a lost opportunity that hopefully some story in the future, using this kind of advanced CGI, will give me. After more than a century of film making, we all deserve that.
It's that same feeling I have realizing that the prettiest girl in the room is often the dumbest girl in the room. So much for having everything.
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6 comments:
Cal did you say you did NOT see it yet??
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No, I saw it...why, you decide to come into the big city and see it also? Didn't all the noises and lights frighten you?
oops..thanks..I miss that point in my post...context IS everything. I did see it...and if you are waiting for me to apologize for refering to your backwoods lifestyle...well...
I just realized there is something worse than Peasant Vision TV...that is NO Vision TV
There is no way this film can ever break even or make a profit but will this stop Hollywood from wasting money of some director's ego-dream project?, No.
^^^^ funny that's the same thing people were saying about Titanic.
(and Star Wars too btw)
i happen to like Camerons films, all of them, and despite all the wild visuals and occasional bouts of corniness they can have, the guy still knows how to tell a story. strong characters in big budget action/adventure type films are rare as hell but so far imo he's never let style take over for substance. are there crowd pleasing moments, sure, but so what?
no i havent seen it yet nor will i until it gets to DVD. i dont go to the theater anymore, havent in about 13 years.
i think i have more of a frontwoods lifestyle Cal ;)
and hear me now and believe me later i watched enough TV in my youth to cover the rest of my life!
I have also heard that the story is suckage but the visuals are truly mind-boggling. I hear it's amazing in Imax, too. So, I'd go see it if I could, but realistically, I'll have to wait for the DVD.
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