Category: EnglishBy the time you read this, most of you will have already seen Avatar. You must be in awe and possibly even looking forward to a ton of new movies based on the ingenious film-making concepts executed in this film.
The story is crap, but you know this, the themes are complete rubbish either - there's no deeper meaning in this film. If you're here to even consider that a simple dialogue of Stephen Lang's character about "waging a war on terror" be a shot at America's own war on terror then you're even more stupid than the people who just watched the film for the pretty blue colors.
Avatar's dealing of the issue of aliens and the proverbial "who's side are you on?" raised once again by Lang's character at the end is also pretty weak. District 9 speaks volumes of such issues on the deepest level till date. Avatar is just very revolutionary, just like that first film made by the Lumière brothers where people ran out of the cinema hall thinking the train was coming towards them. It's going to be remembered, make no mistake about it but does it have any aesthetic and artistic value? I'll leave that to you to decide.
The histrionics aren't that superb either, their passable, Stephen Lang had me cheering for him in the end. Now that's a fucking G.I. Joe.
Recommendation level: 3/5 - Path breaking, but everyone's too quick to judge the story, I think even Cameron made peace with himself about that before he made something like this. For me, I am not sure how much we should be relying on technology to interfere with our art form, we're already so distant from reality, do we need more distance?
Quarritch, f*ck yeah.
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