12.11.09 AVATAR REVIEWS ARE IN. PEOPLE LIKED IT.
James Cameron’s Avatar screened for critics yesterday and the reviews are starting to trickle in. The general consensus seems to be that it’s good but kind of cheesy, like Brett Ratner’s nachos. There were lots of Dances With Wolves comparisons. Did you know that movie’s almost 20 years old? I think I might try to date it.
A dozen years later, James Cameron has proven his point: He is king of the world.
-Hollywood Reporter
Avatar was really much, much better than expected, that it looked amazing and that the story was gripping – if cheesy in many places. The terrible film that some had been anticipating had not materialised. It was good. -The Guardian
If you can let go of your version and embrace Cameron’s – if you’re not, in other words, one of those splenetic internet fanboy types who’ve apparently made their minds up about Avatar before seeing it – then Avatar is a hugely rewarding experience: rich, soulful and exciting in the way that only comes from seeing a master artist at work. -Empire
Editor’s note: I will suck a wiener on Christopher Street before I trust the review of someone who uses the word “splenetic.”
An unprecedented marriage of technology and storytelling which is on the whole remarkably successful. -ScreenDaily
Avatar could be considered James Cameron’s masterpiece. It’s the culmination of his career’s work, carries many of the signature throughlines and trademarks the director is known for, and seems to be a punctuation mark on a career filled with substantial genre milestones. -CHUD
Truth be told, I find it hard to believe that after taking twelve years to make a follow up to TITANIC, this is the best James Cameron can do. -JoBlo
Thematically, the film also plays too simplistically into stereotypical evil-white-empire/virtuous-native cliches, especially since the invaders are presumably on an environmental rescue mission on behalf of the entire world, not just the U.S. Script is rooted very much in a contemporary eco-green mindset, which makes its positions and the sympathies it encourages entirely predictable and unchallenging. -Variety
So there you have it. I’d tell you what I thought, but no one invited me. They were probably afraid I’d steal their girlfriends. Ha, just kidding, film critics don’t have girlfriends. /tears of jealousy.
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AVATAR REVIEWS ARE IN. PEOPLE LIKED IT.
So then that’s a NO on my request for blue titties?
The wieners on Christopher Street are the best! I always get fries and a coke to go along with them
The Variety quote is the one that I’ve been most worried about all along. I mean, just because the tribespeople don’t have Apache attack helicopters doesn’t make them more virtuous, it just means they have to do their evil powermongering using bigger rocks or sharper sticks than the people they’re being dicks to.
*Google Maps Christopher Street, goes there*
What did Pajiba think? Because I disagree. Pussies.
BTK, my indian name is White Man’s Guilt.
I will suck a wiener on Christopher Street before I trust the review of someone who uses the word “splenetic.”
CONFIRMED.
If you can let go of your version and embrace Cameron’s
I thought that’s what 3-D forced you to do anyway?
I read The Times* review this morning and again it was very positive. The first comment, at the time, was kinda familiar,
“Davina Suderlund wrote:
In the future everything is possible – cloning body parts etc – except a cure for spinal injuries? This is like when my husband came back from a Star Trek movie with the depressing (for him) revelation; in the year 3000 (or whateva), people can teleport, clone stuff, terraform planets… but still no cure for baldness.”
*just The Times, not the fucking “London Times”
Will this be like Watchmen where we get to see some blue Dong? If not, I guess we can just settle on the massive amount of side boob and side ass shots. Wait, there’s a plot in this movie?
Thematically, the film also plays too simplistically into stereotypical evil-white-empire/virtuous-native cliches, especially since the invaders are presumably on an environmental rescue mission on behalf of the entire world, not just the U.S. Script is rooted very much in a contemporary eco-green mindset, which makes its positions and the sympathies it encourages entirely predictable and unchallenging. -Variety
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Awesome, another WALL•E. Critically acclaimed hippie bullshit.
Anyone who doesn’t like Wall E can go fuck themselves.
I found the Chaplin-esque first act to be a visually arresting introduction to the protagonist, but felt that the film lost its voice during the rising action leading into the second act. The environmental message was forced — a heavy-handed theme slapped onto a thin, derivative narrative frame. Are we to enjoy a preachy Wal-Mart allegory masquerading as “entertainment”? — CollegeHumor.com
*hits nail on head
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