Tickets for James Cameron’s “Avatar” are selling briskly this weekend, with one reliable film blogger saying it could haul in about $80 million by the time Sunday rolls around.
But what did your humble film critic think of the new film?
WWTW penned a full length review for PajamasMedia.com, and the site should be posting it shortly. Suffice to say Cameron brings the spectacle, as anticipated, but his heavy handed attempts to critique the war in Iraq via blue-hued aliens handcuffs the film’s clear-eyed storytelling.
Will link to my review ASAP.
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Let me see if I understand the premise correctly:
Earth has run out of natural resources and needs a mineral that is buried underground on Pandora, but the problem is that the native people, the Na’vi, refuse to be “relocated” to allow mining for the mineral.
In other words, the Na’vi are willing to let billions of human beings die on Earth, simply because they selfishly don’t want to be inconvenienced by having to move somewhere else. Is that about right?
Somebody needs to explain to me why the Na’vi are supposed to be the good guys here.
Oh, that’s only the start of the silliness/hypocrisy of the movie … but to be fair the situation isn’t detailed in such a fashion to the Na’vi. That would take a better storyteller to do so, and Cameron doesn’t qualify.