James Cameron's Avatar is only so so and that is- if u define so so as "oh my god this can't be so phenomenally awesome that it blows my brains" type of so so. It is nearly a perfect movie. It is not the movie with deep philosophical stuff (those pretentious arty movies).. It is a mega immersive "winter" planetbuster movie that represents what imagination, creativity and action combine at its pinnacle can do. It will set the new benchmark of grand movie making - an art lost by too many digital effects these days and that is the paradox because this movie is all about digital effects. And it has a nice anti-war message, perhaps echoing what the ugly iraq war is really about and a green earth message underneath the digital veneer. It will be the defining movie not of 2009 but the 21st Century (for now). It must be watched in 3D. I can't recommend it enough.
Check out www.wired.com on how James Cameron created his imaginary world from scratch.
Harold Fock
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What Avatar does best of all is immerse the viewer in this alien world until it seems like home.
Posted by: r4i | December 30, 2009 at 06:16 PM