The hatred in the movie Avatar is very nonsensical.
The criticism that it's not an original movie isn't false because it's obvious it's the same style story as Dances with Wolves except in a Science Fiction world that has blue humanoid protagonists, and the Military is the antagonists.
It's very freakin inane to be hating on Avatar for the reason it's not an original movie because that same criticism can be said for the Star Wars movies, Robocop, and multiple other movies that are reusing familiar fiction with variations.
Well, for what it's worth...alot of ppl out there hate those things as well.
Rejections/Nos don't need to be followed by explanations or justification. Because it feels like people just ask for them so that they can argue about it.
december 21st has passed where are my superpowers?
The ads for the new Wes Anderson movie hurt my eyes...
What baffles me about the movie Avatar is that it broke all sorts of records and still somehow managed to not leave a single mark in pop culture. Nobody quotes it, there's no popular memes from it, no parodies, it seems most people can't even remember any of the characters names or lines of dialogue from it at all.
It just appeared, made all sorts of money, and disappeared without anybody caring.
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It's a very paint-by-numbers sci-fi story that everyone's seen before. James Cameron even literally described it as "Dances With Wolves, in space". If you've watched a western, 90s blockbuster, sci-fi movie, etc, you've watched Avatar. White dude gets native girl and saves the world, etc.
Funny enough, I actually thought the opposite. The second movie takes more risks and has some non-cliche ideas, like Quaritch's mind-clone and the relationship with the original Quaritch's son. I really liked how a lot more morally gray he and his team were, instead of being pure mustache-twirling villains.
I'm afraid I fall in the camp of giving it 1 star. It was terrible; nothing to do with the Dances with Wolves (1990) parallels (who cares about that, most plots are inspired by other work?); but because it's just depthless uninspired souless CGI rubbish. When dialogue makes Sigourney Weaver seem bad... you know there's an issue.
"We are Shakespeare. We are Michelangelo. We are Tchaikovsky. We are Turing. We are Mercury. We are Wilde. We are Lincoln, Lorca, Leonardo da Vinci. We are Alexander the Great. We are Fredrick the Great. We are Rustin. We are Addams. We are Marsha! Marsha Marsha Marsha! We so generous, we DeGeneres. We are Ziggy Stardust hooked to the silver screen. Controversially we are Malcolm X. We are Plato. We are Aristotle. We are RuPaul, god dammit! And yes, we are Woolf."
People who go to prison don't 'deserve' to be raped and/or assaulted.
"We are Shakespeare. We are Michelangelo. We are Tchaikovsky. We are Turing. We are Mercury. We are Wilde. We are Lincoln, Lorca, Leonardo da Vinci. We are Alexander the Great. We are Fredrick the Great. We are Rustin. We are Addams. We are Marsha! Marsha Marsha Marsha! We so generous, we DeGeneres. We are Ziggy Stardust hooked to the silver screen. Controversially we are Malcolm X. We are Plato. We are Aristotle. We are RuPaul, god dammit! And yes, we are Woolf."
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