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Avatar. Highest grossing movie in the world. Blue shit.
Best critique I ever heard about Avatar: "Eh, Fern Gully did it better."
I call it Space Pocahontas.
I mean it’s just Dances with Wolves in spaces.
Or Pocahontas
The movie was forgettable and not that special. Going to the IMAX with my uncle and three cousins and watching our first ever (and only ever) 3d movie together and squealing the whole 3 hour car ride home about how much fun we had as a family is one of my best memories.
I think this is what people forget about Avatar. It was never supposed to be the best writing or the best story. It was purely just to show off incredible ground breaking CGI technology. Seeing it in IMAX was a damn near religious experience, but watching on a TV at home just doesn't do it justice.
dabu di dabu dai
Avatar was the best screensaver ever made.
Bluntly manipulative melodramatic tripe that ejects me completely from the movie, just as with Titanic. James Cameron decided to keep churning out the modern cgi version of a top hat-wearing villain cackling and twirling his mustache as he leaves the damsel tied to the train tracks, and it is kind of dismaying that he got so thoroughly rewarded for it.
It was an okay (but derivative) movie, but an amazing tech showcase for 3D. That's why it was the highest grossing.