Reviews Film / Avatar

Stop Hating On It

I'll be straightforward and brief. I disliked this movie. It was stupidly political where it could have been making a point. There were fail military tactics, such as ignoring Quadritch while slaughtering all his troops around him for the lulz. (But killing people is fun to watch!) There were overly melodramatic scenes mixed with narm when everyone died at the end. There was the mass deportation of humans at the end, securing the planetary borders of Pandora indefinitely until some greasy Muggle dare come back and mine resources and money to send back home to our dilapidated Earth. Well whaddya know, the citizens of Arizona are true pioneers.

But in the end, it was just another film, no more or less enjoyable than most others. Better than most comedy shtick out there. Works decently as an action-drama if you take out the anvils. My only real complaint is the length - by the end, I was wondering when the movie would be over (the plot being fairly predictable), and that's never a good sign.

The graphics were great, but I certainly weren't blown over by them. This is probably because I, like many of the future viewers to come, was watching it in 2D on my TV at home. The graphics were good, and the details were extraordinary, but for someone who rarely watches live-action and takes in a lot of animation and video game graphics, it was just what was on the screen. Sure, in retrospect, Avatar probably has some of the most realistic graphics I've ever seen in a live-action film. But I wasn't paying attention to the graphics, I was watching the movie for the movie.

tl;dr version: Avatar is just a movie. Stop hating on it, it's not that bad. That said, it's not a visionary cinematic work either, so don't expect that. Watch it for the same reason you'd watch any other decent film.