Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="Jhoh Creexul (custom software)"]<a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091211/REVIEWS/912119998">http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091211/REVIEWS/912119998</a> [quote] **** (4 stars) Watching "Avatar," I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977. That was another movie I walked into with uncertain expectations. James Cameron's film has been the subject of relentlessly dubious advance buzz, just as his "Titanic" was.[/quote] Titanic sucked. [quote]"Avatar" is not simply a sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough. It has a flat-out Green and anti-war message.[/quote] As opposed to movies that have messages that aren't that. [quote]It creates new movie stars. It is an Event, one of those films you feel you must see to keep up with the conversation.[/quote] [quote]The story, set in the year 2154, involves a mission by U. S. Armed Forces to an earth-sized moon in orbit around a massive star. This new world, Pandora, is a rich source of a mineral Earth desperately needs. Pandora represents not even a remote threat to Earth, but we nevertheless send in the military to attack and conquer them. Gung-ho Marines employ machine guns and pilot armored hover ships on bombing runs. You are free to find this an allegory about contemporary politics. Cameron obviously does.[/quote] <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2238464/">Here's a rebuttal to that shitty paragraph.</a> [quote]This last quality is liberating for the hero, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who is a paraplegic. He's been recruited because he's a genetic match for a dead identical twin, who an expensive avatar was created for.[/quote] GREAT WRITING [quote]Like "Star Wars" and "LOTR," "Avatar" employs a new generation of special effects. Cameron said it would, and many doubted him. It does. Pandora is bevy largely CGI.[/quote] A complete contradiction in the space of 10 seconds. [quote]And Cameron and his artists succeed at the difficult challenge of making Neytiri a blue-skinned giantess with golden eyes and a long, supple tail, and yet--I'll be damned. Sexy.[/quote] [quote]At 163 minutes, the film doesn't feel too long.[/quote] [quote]The human stories.[/quote] [quote]I've complained that many recent films abandon story telling in their third acts and go for wall-to-wall action. Cameron essentially does that here[/quote] [quote]Cameron promised he'd unveil the next generation of 3-D in "Avatar."[/quote] [quote]<b><i><u>It takes a hell of a lot of nerve for a man to stand up at the Oscarcast and proclaim himself King of the World. James Cameron just got re-elected.</i></b></u>[/quote][/quote]