Why I don’t need to see Avatar
- James Cameron’s Pocahontas
- I’ll see your Pocahontas and raise you Speaker for the Dead
- Avatar is a visual revolution, but the story it tells is exactly as clichéd as we thought.
James Cameron, you have joined George Lucas on the Dark Side. You’re dead to me now.
And lets not forget this movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230011/ Again a lot of parallels, strong Latino female (Though Cameron did this in Aliens too…and since that came out first, it might cancel this out) a gung-ho general, a warrior princess…etc. They even look blue in most of the scenes….tis the underground water effects dont-cha-know.
Yeah, except in Aliens you had an awesome Battle of the Bitches, instead of Evil Military Drones slaughtering the blue Garfield hippies in their drum circle. Characters had awesome names like Ripley and Newt instead of transparently preachy monikers like “Grace Augustine the scientist with a soul” and “Selfridge the evil fist of corporate greed.” The corporate slimeball guy in Aliens wasn’t a thinly veiled metaphor for America, just a greedy d-bag with an actual personality. The aliens drool face-melting acidic goo instead of singing about the colors of the wind. And Unobtanium?? UNOBTANIUM???!?!?! I haven’t heard of anything as blood-boilingly iditoic since oh, I don’t know . . . MIDICHLORIANS. The Phantom Menace hurt bad enough. I won’t put myself through that again.
It’s awful to be a devoted fan of a sci-fi genius and then watch him slip away into some mid-life-crisis-induced senility that makes him squeeze the last drops of his talent like a big gooey zit that just pops all over his career, forever tarnishing the great ideas he had a couple of decades ago.
TWICE.
FML.