Comments on: In defense of hating ‘Avatar’

By: TMW

TMW — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:09:01 +0000

Thank you! I fully agree with everything you said. This movie was not a “motion picture” and does not deserve “best picture” in any sense of the word. It can take the special affects awards– it deserves them, but CGI and green screens should not get awards over the work that was done in The Hurt Locker.

The movie was entertaining, yes, and good viewing, but it had so many flaws from a “film” standpoint that it shouldn’t even be compared to the other top films.

If Avatar wins best picture this year, I will have lost all faith in film awards and will likely turn my back on them.

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By: Trent Calloway

Trent Calloway — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:51:00 +0000

“I don’t think “Avatar” is a horrible movie—it’s decent. But with its big explosions, wincingly bad dialogue and a simple, underdeveloped story, why is this getting more praise than, say, “Fantastic Four”? Or “Transformers 2”? Or “Monsters vs. Aliens”?”

Transformers 2? That was a piece of shit Michael “more explosions” Bay movie. Not to mention the racism and bigotry in the movie. Monsters vs. Aliens is a kids movie. There was no Fantastic four movie in 2009 the last one came out in 07′ so that statement is ridiculous. Compare the score on IMDB.com Avatar has (8.6) to Transformers 2 (6.1) Fantastic Four:ROSS (5.8) and Monsters vs Aliens (6.8). Rotten Tomatoes gave it 86% and Metacritic.com gave an 84. So it seems the movie gets a high “B+” overall with mostly relatively positive reviews. Your B.S is not the consensus of the film community.

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By: Candace

Candace — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:27:09 +0000

No offense to all you who have I’m sure, wonderful (ahem), movie taste, but this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
“Like, OMGZ it was SOOO MINDBLOWING right?”
Shut up. The visuals were fine, whatever. I felt like I was watching some little kid play a video game with cheesy and plenty underlining messages in it such as “save the environment” or “love can overpower brute stength” or something. I’m not neccessarily a huge fan of military type things, but I think the movie was almost offensive to the military. Like we go and kill people for fun or something. Wow, way to be an asshole James Cameron.
Also, speaking of James Cameron, CONGRATS on winning Best Director and Best Motion Picture for the Golden Globes, you’re movie made me fall asleep! The Hurt Locker deserved both of those awards. In fact, every other movie deserved those awards, so congratulations on taking something from a deserving team, crew, and director.
Oh but wait, I didn’t fall asleep in Avatar. It’s really hard to sleep when you want to vomit or punch someone for making something so ridiculous and dispicable. I mean, really? Great, it’s a kids movie, awesome. Goodygumdrops. Fantastic Mr. Fox was x10 better a kids movie. Where the Wild Things Are was a better childrens movie, and it wasn’t even a children-like movie. I really very offended and very disappointed that James Camerons movies are both the most watched movies in history? What? Well great. Isn’t that wonderful.
Yay, more mainstream movies winning top spots and support because they send some sort of cliche universal message. Great. I can’t think of a worse movie I’ve ever seen. I mean, I would rather watch any other movie. It’s worse than this one movie I watched once when a Neo Nazi went back in time and fell in love with Anne Frank.

Call me a cynic, I don’t care! But I fully support any article not for Avatar.
Oh and. The best part about Avatar was the 3D glasses.

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By: Gregorz Kurwa

Gregorz Kurwa — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:51:11 +0000

Avatar is nothing more than xeno propaganda.

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By: Bobby

Bobby — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:45:27 +0000

Avatar is a glorified Hellboy II. Great article, Percy!

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By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:50:23 +0000

I loved Avatar for a lot of reasons and thought even though some of the themes were cliche, they were worthy of being put to audiences again . What I still don’t get , is the adoration that you and so many others cast on The. Dark Knight. I thought it was overblown , overlong, and worst yet, implausible. (And that’s hard to do when you’re alredy buying into the superhero thing.) Mostly around the Joker – the whole hospital blow up thing just to get one guy- the abilty to have tons of explosives somewhere at the snap of a finger bla bla bla. And Batmans cell phone network 3D goggles ? Really? This movie was so overdone for the sake of overdoneness it’s actually bad. Not unlike Batman Begins which wasn’t content with a good villian caper, it had to go overboard ( of course!) to explain the orgins of all evil. And as for Heath Ledgers lispy goofy take on the character? Let’s just say that performance was viewed through the tragedy of his death, and cast as spectacular. Not so much, if you ask me.

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By: clinton

clinton — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:24:55 +0000

Avatar was bad ass, I have no clue ware you get this foolish hatter thoughts from.

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By: Theknsy2k

Theknsy2k — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:59:40 +0000

I think the movie was very creative and romantic, little pretatively but I enjoyed it, stop hating people it deserve every credit it got.

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By: gpymd

gpymd — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:41:13 +0000

Obviously I’m spending way too much time on this thread. However I do want to say that this article and it’s subsequent comments…by ALL have been pretty cool for the most part. I don’t see a lot of random “trolling” going on here. Most comments have been somewhat specific in their observations about the film. Good thread.

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By: gpymd

gpymd — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:32:20 +0000

@brian

The word lazy is the issue here. In a movie where every second, even just a landscape with a rock on it…takes countless hours of work and teams to make..implies that nothing is lazy. I understand that showing the capture of turok would have been an interesting and cool choice, but dramatically it would have possibly taken away from the unveiling of the end result to the Na’vi in the following scene. Not hard to see that those choices would please everyone. Just find a better word than lazy. If your issue is quality, which it sounds like it is… then use that.

The budget reference I maid would probably have been better replaced with the actual lists of staff writers, engineers, conceptual artists, programmers…… followed by a description of what they did in the making of this film which employed hundreds of people for several years.

I guess I should have done that.. but I was being lazy. They weren’t.

I agree with your sentiment about American Graffiti.

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