Comments on: Avatar: In Praise Of Competence

By: SQT

SQT — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:57:17 +0000

Most competent reviewers are saying pretty much the same thing you are, but audiences are eating this up. Kind of depressing, and yet, I get it.

By: Matthew Rotundo

Matthew Rotundo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:47:51 +0000

Leila–yeah, Horner steals from himself a lot.

By: Leila

Leila — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:27:56 +0000

Sergey – thank goodness, I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed! She does clean up nice, though. I also like that the villain grew up from being a self-aware blob of malicious sludge to being, hey, humans, waving their…ahem, militaries…around in places they’re not wanted and don’t belong, stealing from and killing off worlds.

As predictable as the story was – I left the theater feeling both like I wanted to run back in and see it again, and also crushingly depressed because our world will never be that cool, ever. I was really moved by the interconnectedness and the sacredness of all life on Pandora.

The soundtrack, too, was just a rehash of every movie James Horner has done – I heard Titanic, Braveheart, Mask of Zorro, and a couple of others – but for all its flaws standing alone, the soundtrack meshed perfectly with the film itself.

So honestly, yes, I want to see it again. And again. ^_^

By: Sergey Gerasimov

Sergey Gerasimov — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:08:36 +0000

Did anyone notice that Avatar is just a deressed up version of FernGully: The Last Rainforest?

By: Matthew Rotundo

Matthew Rotundo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:17:33 +0000

Logan–yeah, they really did.

I actually didn’t have a problem with that, for some reason. I guess I could readily see some corporation coming up with that name.

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:07:37 +0000

Really? They actually called it unobtanium? Wow.

By: Patty

Patty — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:08:01 +0000

exactly! I wrote about this very same thing in my blog. This movie was never made to shock or to surprise. It was made to let people walk from the cinema feeling happy. And that, most of them did.

By: Twitter Tweets about Avatar as of January 3, 2010 | Bay Area REO

Twitter Tweets about Avatar as of January 3, 2010 | Bay Area REO — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:04:37 +0000

[...] · Reply · View fantasymagazine: New blog post: Avatar: In Praise Of Competence http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/01/avatar-in-praise-of-competence/ 2010-01-03 12:00:04 · Reply · View ianaries: Quite excited, off to see Avatar this [...]