Like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette..
Two posts in one month?! ITS THE APOCALYPSE! (I'd click that if I were you, it is a pretty awesome picture.)
Anyway I'm back on the job market. Again. It's really a bummer, I liked my job at Hobby Lobby pretty well with a few minor exceptions. Oh well, on to bigger and better things I suppose.
I have'nt done a movie review in a while, so I figured why not?
AVATAR 3D
Ok...Well I would like to preface this by saying I did like the movie.
It was over-hyped.
There I said it, it is out in the open. But when people tell me it will be my new favorite movie, with skepticism I go in expecting Return of the Jedi, or at least the Dark Knight. So anything that isn't up to that standard falls short in living up to expectation.
Regardless. The graphics were incredible, the floating mountains were just awesome. I give the director, producers, and writers the most credit possible for taking this incredible vision and putting it to celluloid. Most movies give you a city to be a part of, James Cameron gives you an entire planet. A very pretty planet, I couldn't help but think I'd like to have some of those glowing plants around.
The story line was pretty good overall, there were some moments that made me uncomfortable a bit...like when Jake Sully first gets his avatar, or the Nav'i sex scene......
Acting was pretty good. I'm thinking we'll be seeing alot more of Sam Worthington (Jake Sully) in the future. My favorite was still Sigourney Weaver. She provided some comic relief and I feel was the best actor present.
For some reason I had trouble identifying with the characters at first. I don't really know why, usually thats pretty easy to accomplish for me. Also, I could have done without the rampant political agenda permeating the background of the movie. One or two nods is fine, but the whole thing was charged with it.
On the whole, I give Avatar a solid B+. I wouldn't say best movie of 2009. I think that still goes to UP.
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