I won’t write a whole lot about James Cameron’s latest, Avatar, because the following diagram sums up almost exactly how I feel about the movie (courtesy of Aurich Lawson, from Ars Technica):
It just seems as if storywriters cobbled together elements from many popular movies (look in the comments, especially) and added a huge dose of incredible 3D imagery – akin to hanging Monica Bellucci’s beautifully voluptuous body on Kate Moss’s scrawny skeleton. The movie is still entertaining – as the huge box office opening numbers attest – and the world of Pandora is certainly compelling, but time will tell whether this particular chapter of its history will have the same legs as Cameron’s previous work in the genre such as Terminator and Alien.
Watch it and make up your own mind, but if you do, definitely go for a 3D session otherwise you’d be missing out on one of the most compelling things about this movie.
That diagram forgot the orb labelled “Pocahontas”.
In theory, it could have had a load of different orbs with Matrix, Alien, Terminator, etc. Three was just neater, I guess!
And the colours are so pretty. Wouldn’t want to spoil that.
Why Avatar is like Pocahontas!
http://i.imgur.com/JmRmb.jpg
LOL, good one!