[Movie] Avatar (2009) - BZ wants your nub

Originally Posted by wvlfpvp

Hey, so. Unobtainium is the most retarded name for something ever.

It's on the same level as literary great J.K. Rowling naming the character she shockingly reveals to be a werewolf three-quarters of the way through the book "Remus Lupin".

"Alright, like, so this stuff, it's like an element that's hard-to-get. Hard-to-get, hmm... almost like it's unobtaina- Hold on. I've got it."
- James Cameron, 2009

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Doesn't really change my opinion of the inanity of the movie.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

How about them waterfalls

It's like they're cascading right into my fucking face!



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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Well, considering that film is a visual medium, it's not surprising that one of the most visually impressive movies winds up being one of the biggest films of the year.

It's kind of like complaining when a song has dumb lyrics. Yeah, sure, good lyrics can certainly help a song, and some great ones can be made just by being very poetic, but there's still a place for shit like Bang the Drum.

Sure, there's a place for all sorts of terrible media. But high on the critical roll-call is not it.

And calling film a "visual medium" discounts all the writing, acting and sound work that go into making a good film whole.

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Originally Posted by Skexis

I think the media confuses "sales phenomenon" and sometimes "film experience" with "artistic chops" and it just sort of spirals out from there because everybody's using the language they've heard others use. I don't think everyone really believes Avatar is the best movie ever made, but they might believe it's the best reason to go to a theater in quite some time.

You'd be surprised:

"The film vibrates with the excitement of discovery and awe. Not just for the sight of six-legged rhinos and butterfly-hued dragons, but for the thousands of hours of work that unite here in a creative epiphany."
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Mr. Cameron's singular vision has upped the ante for filmed entertainment, and given us a travelogue unlike any other. I wouldn't want to live on Pandora, mainly because of the bad air, but I'm glad to have paid it a visit. "
- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

"An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic's box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors."
- Victoria Alexander, FilmsInReview.com

"With Avatar, Cameron has created the first great epic of the 21st century and a new benchmark in filmmaking. No wonder that this took 4 years to produce, it was worth every minute to get this right."
- Diva Velez, TheDivaReview.com

"This masterpiece is definitely one experience worth braving text a lot guy, talking teen girls and parents who can't be bothered to get a babysitter to see in the theater."
- Jeffery Lyles, MD Gazette

"The best picture of 2009, one of the best films of the decade and, really, one of the best movies I've ever seen."
- Kevin N. Laforest, Montreal Film Journal

"James Cameron invented a world comparable to George Lucas' galaxy of long ago, far, far away and as original as what Peter Jackson did with J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth."
- Gary Wolcott, Tri-City Herald

"Works as both a socially conscious Western update and as a true SF film, revealing the influences of such fine genre writers as Philip Jose Farmer, Larry Niven and especially Edgar Rice Burroughs (the 'John Carter of Mars' series)."
- John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal

"Un entretenimiento fascinante, con pasajes de inusual belleza, servido con mano maestra por James Cameron. Es también un alegato ecologista y pacifista, justo en tiempos de creciente militarismo y abuso de recursos naturales."
- Enrique Buchichio, Paraguay Total

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This review tidily lays out a lot of the issues I had with Avatar. It's a bit long, but then again you wasted three hours of your time and fifteen of your hard-earned dollars watching the movie, so this is really quite an efficient use of your time by comparison. Plus: the reviewer has more personality than any of the characters in Avatar, and he had the ability to make me laugh - and not just at him.

Enjoy!

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