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The Latest Special Effects Vomit-fest
Dec. 18th, 2009 09:27 amLJ has been whoring advertising that "Avatar" movie a lot lately. Here's my initial opinion from movie trailers, TV ads and the Wikipedia entry:
I will probably NOT be seeing "Avatar" - in theaters, on Netflix or otherwise. I have an aversion to movies that portray humans as hideously evil, planet-raping, innocent-creature-killing monsters. And James Cameron is not one of my favorite directors (though, he did give us one of the funniest movies to MST3K to). If the little blue creatures were actually the bad guys, I might look into it. But, I have a loyalty to my species (in spite of all their faults), thankyouverymuch.
In all fairness, I hate "Fern Gully" and "Bambi" for the same reason.
In the spirit of The Preemptive Critics (a Utah Statesman classic) - I preemptively hate this movie. I haven't seen "The Blind Side" yet, so that's what I'll probably go see.
PS - From a "real" critic, Jeff Vice of the Deseret Morning News: All special effects, no plot. I thought as much.
PPS - Question: Is it possible to have a good action-fantasy-sci-fi-special-effects movie and STILL have a coherent storyline? Oh wait - Lord of the Rings did it.
I will probably NOT be seeing "Avatar" - in theaters, on Netflix or otherwise. I have an aversion to movies that portray humans as hideously evil, planet-raping, innocent-creature-killing monsters. And James Cameron is not one of my favorite directors (though, he did give us one of the funniest movies to MST3K to). If the little blue creatures were actually the bad guys, I might look into it. But, I have a loyalty to my species (in spite of all their faults), thankyouverymuch.
In all fairness, I hate "Fern Gully" and "Bambi" for the same reason.
In the spirit of The Preemptive Critics (a Utah Statesman classic) - I preemptively hate this movie. I haven't seen "The Blind Side" yet, so that's what I'll probably go see.
PS - From a "real" critic, Jeff Vice of the Deseret Morning News: All special effects, no plot. I thought as much.
PPS - Question: Is it possible to have a good action-fantasy-sci-fi-special-effects movie and STILL have a coherent storyline? Oh wait - Lord of the Rings did it.
