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No. 7547
ID: 4f2b58
I figured I'd do a separate post for this because it's not really related to the last one and I already have a bad recurring case of wall-of-text syndrome. Sorry for that :(
Just a simple question: For those of you that don't like the movie, what is it exactly that you don't like? I see lots of complaining but nobody has said why they don't like it.
The reason I ask is that I went and saw the movie for a second time last weekend with group of friends. I went primarily because I hadn't ever been to an IMAX movie and because I enjoyed the movie enough the first time that I thought it would be fun to go again. What I found was that, even though I watched the film with a much more analytical eye, I still really enjoyed it.
For what it's worth, I did catch one or two references which could easily be classified as Cameron's political opinions but as I said earlier, they just don't stick out that much. I also found the strong references to the "noble savage" a little much at times, but even this wasn't that hard to forgive when the ideas that the Na'vi aren't human and the concept of a somewhat collective consciousness were thrown in the mix.
Yes, the "big picture" view of the movie's plot wasn't entirely original, and I can understand some people docking points because of that. I've thought about this point a lot the last few days since seeing the movie a second time, but I concluded that, for me at least, it just doesn't bother me that much. I decided that the manner in which the plot unfolded and the way in which the story was told is almost just as important as the actual story. Doing a good job telling a good story trumps a bad job telling a good story, or a good job telling a bad story. This might be one reason I enjoyed the move -- I thought Cameron did a great job telling the story.
Maybe part of it is the outlook I try to take to movies. I realized several years ago that if you'll rarely enjoy movies (most especially scifi/fantasy) if you don't go into the theater ready to suspend belief. While I still struggle with very technically-themes movies (say, for example, The Core or Armageddon) when dealing with fantasy (and Avatar was much more fantasy than scifi) you either suspend belief or leave disappointed.
Actually, I think it's funny how much Interweb hate this movie has generated. Seeing as I've yet to meet a person outside the net that doesn't really enjoy the movie (both friends and co-workers and random encounters) I can't help but wonder if it isn't the common "vocal minority" behavior you find all the time online. Being in a minority is always fashionable on the Internet (it meshes well with the ego-boosting idea of the "unwashed masses"), whether it's being a rabid Ron Paul supporter or an avid Avatar hater -- both only seem to exist online ;)
But anyway, this isn't flamebait or a troll: I'm genuinely curious (and, apparently, still unable to avoid creating a wall of text. Sorry again.)
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