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Old June 2nd, 2013 #6
Mike in Denver
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Originally Posted by Donnie in Ohio View Post
Avatar = Dances With Smurfs.
Compared to Avatar, The Smurfs is a sophisticated and adult drama. Avatar, which I did manage to finish watching last evening, was childish, predictable, and boring. It was exactly a Saturday morning cartoon, and well toward the bottom of Saturday morning cartoons.

Avatar uses a technique, that to be fair, has been used in movies at least since The Birds (1963,) not too bad a movie. It is this: to push the action in the needed direction, an actor, usually the lead, has to act like a near-retarded, undisciplined fool. In The Birds, the lead woman character, played by Tippi Hedren, moved about slowly with a blank expression, forgetting to shut doors and windows, as if she were in no danger. This kept her in constant danger, the point of the movie.

Avatar used this in almost every scene. Jake, supposedly a combat hardened, force-recon marine, wandered about, ignoring his orders, goofy, touching everything, paying no attention to his task...in short, acting like a three year old. And this just went on and on, scene after scene.

The movie also took its little message...niggers good, injuns good (whatever,) white folks bad...and hit you over the head with it, over, and over, and fucking over. Most of the scenes were just this repeated. Then some action at the end. No drama, no doubt, just scenes borrowed mostly from cowboy-indian movies, every scene pretty much like the last.

A childish, repetitive, predictable, and painfully boring cartoon. Oh yeah! the visual effects were not too bad, in fact they were damn good. Even that only took about three minutes to become boring.

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