Saturday, May 8, 2010

Avatar



Avatar, 1999
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang

The CGI didn't disappoint, but after spending $230 million (The New Yorker) to nearly $500 million (The New York Times) to make Avatar, we expected to see some good CGI. The actual plot of the movie really took quite a traditional form (the noble savage theme in literature goes back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans) and was easily predictable. We all knew right from the start where the story was going and who was good and who was bad. It was really very simplistic. The characters were one dimensional stereotypes; we've seen them all before. While we all enjoyed watching Avatar, it is hardly the best movie ever made and falls quite short of Cameron's wish to make a sci-fi epic that trumps all previous sci-fi epics. Watch it for the CGI.

2 comments:

Jane said...

You sound like my daughter.
She said nearly the same thing. She said the plot was like Dances with Wolves meets Fern Gully.
LOL....

Lori L said...

That's a good one! She got it right. We watched it again this weekend, or rather my niece watched it while my nephews helped load the trailer.