Comments on: Why Did I Hate Avatar?

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:51:00 +0000

Hi! Just wanted to say I completely agree, though perhaps for less technical reasons and more psychological. Perhaps it was negligent of me to expect a movie like this to actually feature believable human beings. Like you mentioned, the ‘black-white’ nature of this story made it rather tiresome to watch. None of the character had depth or a realistic nature. The predictability of it was incredible; I mean, I’m a fairly average person when it comes to reading movies, but this one proved me wrong. Understandably, this is just my opinion and each to his own, right? It’s merely that I nitpick at minor details like how believable and how interesting the movie in question is.

Anyway. Thank you for this review.

By: Myers_m

Myers_m — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:14:00 +0000

What I didn’t like about it was that the story seemed to be a hybrid of Dances with Wolves, and Pocahontas(the Disney movie)…and I wasn’t really blown away by the CGI

By: Dstoner

Dstoner — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:00:00 +0000

shopped

By: Arazmuss

Arazmuss — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:25:00 +0000

Actors need other actors and real things to play off of, this is why the first Star Wars trilogy is beloved: the interaction between the characters and reacting to something real (even if it is just a set) instead of a greenscreen…and why the new trilogy is reviled. One of the reasons the characters in avatar seem like they can’t act their way out of a paper bag (and there are some really good actors on this cast list) is because they are having to imagine EVERYTHING about an alien landscape and even if they have seen artists renderings it just isn’t the same as looking at a green wall and pretending therer is a beastie about to attack you.

By: Arazmuss

Arazmuss — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:18:00 +0000

Ask yourself: when is the last time Western civilization has stumbled across a pool of massively valuable resources, and just walked away because we met resistance?
After losing billions of dollars and being humiliated by a bunch of giant blue Ewoks, is it more likely that the head of the corporation will see the error of his ways, or will he invest the rest of his assets into burning the surface of Pandora with orbital missiles before sending in an assault fleet the size of Colorado? Did the Europeans give up on the New World’s gold the first time one of their settlers took a tomahawk to the head?
Remember, the humans only lost to the Na’vi because they were poorly equipped, fighting with machine guns and fragile aircraft that couldn’t even stand up to the local wildlife. They were lacking the future-generation cruise missiles, stealth bombers and who knows what other kind of weapons of mass destruction they’ve invented in the intervening 150 years. But they’ll have them when they come back.

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:50:00 +0000

This is one of the best reviews of avatar I’ve read, these are all my exact thoughts. I get the feeling that Cameron walked into a creative meeting at the beginning of this project with copies of Dances With Wolves, FernGully, Pocahontas and a couple of episodes of the smurfs and said “I want to remake this” and when he was asked which one he said “all of them, at the same time, but get this, Its gonna be in space” and all the people in the room were like “yes, this is awesome, sure to win some awards!!” That film could have had about half an hour cut from it if they hadn’t repeatedly cut to random shots of flowers opening, it was as if I was watching a movie on TV and every so often it cut to an advert for a David Attenborugh documentary, visually stunning, yes, but not really relevant to the story.

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By: Josh Ekin

Josh Ekin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:50:00 +0000

I also hate this film.. Plot Device upon plot device. I’m not going to watch a film simply for its pretty colours.

By: CheesyBalone

CheesyBalone — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:39:00 +0000

I’m….I’m so happy to hear a reviewer hated it. People go crazy on me when people say I do. My whole family hated it. My grandma actually fell asleep during it, then yelled at my sister for waking her up later in it.

By: CheesyBalone

CheesyBalone — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:39:00 +0000

By: Kej

Kej — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:00 +0000

Because the reasons why people like it vary so drastically.

Pfft, gimme a break.

By: Chris Lai

Chris Lai — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:31:00 +0000

ah yes, finally!
finally somebody who thinks like me and agrees that technology is more than what it takes to make a good movie
thank you mate

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:13:00 +0000

Yeah, that was a bad movie and you hit many of the nails right on the proverbial head. I personally was most annoyed by the blatantly flawed science in “Avatar.” Wrong some blog posts about it. Like to read it, here it goes:
http://geektwins.blogspot.com/search/label/flawed-science

By: TheEternal

TheEternal — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:56:00 +0000

Thank you for showing me that there is still some hope for human beings yet. I am glad to see that not everyone has been blinded by the special effects and stolen concepts for Pandora.

Roger Dean anyone?

By: TheEternal

TheEternal — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:56:00 +0000

Thank you for showing me that there is still some hope for human beings yet. I am glad to see that not everyone has been blinded by the special effects and stolen concepts for Pandora.

Roger Dean anyone?

By: TheEternal

TheEternal — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:56:00 +0000

Thank you for showing me that there is still some hope for human beings yet. I am glad to see that not everyone has been blinded by the special effects and stolen concepts for Pandora.

Roger Dean anyone?

By: TheEternal

TheEternal — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:56:00 +0000

Thank you for showing me that there is still some hope for human beings yet. I am glad to see that not everyone has been blinded by the special effects and stolen concepts for Pandora.

Roger Dean anyone?

By: Meh.

Meh. — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:55:00 +0000

Great article, loved everything you said. Do know that you are not alone in your views. We are the minority, here us squeak!

By: Meh.

Meh. — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:53:00 +0000

You are not alone in your disdain of CGI. I much prefer practical special effects to something done on a computer. Give me puppets and miniatures over CGI any day.

By: Ani

Ani — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:05:00 +0000

Lots of people use that as an excuse, especially in that type of manner. Then it turns out they think the military should`ve won.
At least the movie proves that the wild deserves better. And I want to give it that!