Seen "Avatar" at last!!!
So about a year after everyone else, I finally sat down with a rented big screen projector, some popcorn and and a Blu-Ray of Avatar.
First impression after 40 minutes:
"This is awful. Just bilge" (apart from the cinematographics)! The plot is stolen, hook line and sinker from hands-down, the worst theatrical production ever: the aerial tree-hugging, gymnastica at the Millenium Dome in 2000.
"Evil Sky People", "At-One-with-Everything-Forest People" "Giant Home Tree of happiness and love". Soppy music, greedy corporation. It had it all and worse 10 years ago!!!
It was dire to the power of crap and then some. My wife spent the whole show with her head in her hands and cringing. I fealt vaguely ill. People around us would not look at each other.
Only the under 7s and the "developmentally challenged" seemed to enjoy it.
"Why in gawd's name couldn't he have pilfered a better plot?! I thought. Its unbelievable that they were THAT starved for ideas that they had to scrape the underside of the bottom of the barrel!
However; After the blowy-uppy home-tree-of-"why-didn't-you-see-this-coming-great-world-spirit?" scene, I thought it got a WHOLE lot better!!
So much of a whole lot better I might have to actually stick a crow-bar in my wallet and buy it!
So, IMNSHO:
Extraordinary effects, 10/10
Plagerised, rubbish plot - 0/10
Fight scenes - 10/10
And I could really go one of those giant dragony-things!
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