So if your a film buff and you have not heard of the film Avatar, well youve been living under a rock for the past year! Avatar is the latest epic from director James Cameron, who also directed Aliens, the first two Terminator films, and Titanic, and has become the highest grossing film of all time reaching a whopping 2.7 BILLION dollars at the box office, I was one of the first to see it, I saw it the second day it came out, and I was pumped up. It looked friggin fantastic, now, what was my initial response? I thought it was okay. The story I thought was just absolute garbage, it seemed to me that they had just paraphrased Pocahontas' story line and added in some weird aliens and cool effects. Now the effects, were absolutely astonishing! I mean it looked terrific, and in Imax and 3-D i had an excellent time at the theater. And it seemed that everyone loved that movie......which is one of the reasons I grew to hate it
Now I know what some of you may be thinking "Well the movie had awesome effects and although a kinda crappy storyline, it was still a good movie right?" Well, at first I would have agreed with you, now im not gonna try and take away the fact that the film had pretty amazing visuals, cause like I said I was blown away! But my reason for disliking the film was the fact that everyone started to overrate the film incredibly, I mean there were people claiming it was one of the best movies ever made! I mean, WTF? I mean if you were judging a film by its effects then yeah I could kinda understand, but the plot to me was just complete bull, and if a movie doesnt have a good story then, like in video games, I find it less enjoyable, but unlike a video game I dont control what the characters do etc etc. so when a movie doesnt have a good story, I just find it a major, MAJOR downgrade, my initial rating for Avatar was a 6 because of its story, now if it had a really good and original one, it probably would have gotten something like a 9 or maybe even a 10
So story aside, what was it that started to make me hate the film so much? Well, it was both the extreme fanboys and the media. The media treated Avatar like it was the best film since Citizen Kane, and the fans oh god dont even get me started! And Im not talking about or meaning to insult those who enjoyed or liked the movie, Im just talking about the people who constantly went on about how ball crushingly epic and amazing it was! It was those people who went on and on and ON about the visual effects but did nothing to defend it in terms of good storytelling, thats my major pet peeve about the movie. Well remember people, this is all MY opinion, if you dont agree with me, then tell me why or explain your opinion to me in a respectful manner, if your gonna comment on this just to say "Oh my god you f**** moron!" etc etc dont even bothering commenting. Now, dont get me wrong, there were some good things about this film, like I said over and over the effects were fantastic and the way they presented the story was pretty cool, but constant undeserved praise of the film is what made me dislike it even more, I guess "Hate" Isnt the right word to describe how I feel about this film. Well thats the end of this blog, Watch out for my Gears of War, Half Life 2, and God of War III reviews that should be coming shortly, see all of you on the forums!!! :D
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