James Cameron's Avatar. (spoiler free!)

How fitting that Avatar would be the first movie I rant about on this blog (as original content, the others so far were written elsewhere). So enjoy, the birth of Think About It! My first review, The Avatar!

And to be perfectly honest with you, I didn't really wanna see this movie. It seemed to be selling itself solely on James Cameron and his resume (I mean did you see that trailer? It flashed every damn movie he ever made at the end) do I hear desperation? And the movie poster with 'TITANIC' and 'JAMES CAMERON'S...' written on it, come on! If the film really needed to do that, how good could the film really be? It seemed to be clawing at us to come see this movie, how pathetic. It seemed we had another Water World on our hands but I looked on Metacritic and found that a lot of critics liked this movie. Now if I didn't believe in critics, what kind of critic would I be? Haha, so I went to see the movie anyway. I may as well see it since the poor guy put a decade of his life into this, after all.  

And it was...okay. It wasn't great, awesome or brilliant and its a long way from being a masterpiece but it was certainly passable. Well...kinda. You see, how the hell do I review this film? As a film? Then yeah it's just passable but if I reviewed this as a piece of art then yeah, this was a Goddamn bonafide masterpiece! As a piece of magical escapism on a grande scale it's a masterpiece too. So confusing... 

Well it gives me more to write about if I talk about it as a film, so I will. It's generic, cheesy, slow and in some places, downright boring. Neytiri will make you think thoughts that make you feel wrong for thinking and the whole NA'Vi race seem like this incredibly mass innuendo with their lack of clothes, tentacle 'bonding' with other creatures which they seem to enjoy and that weird dance at the tree almost as if we're supposed to find these things attractive, which is weird (luckily we have the gorgeous Michelle Rodriguez and to some extent, Sigourney Weaver to balance out this wrong feelings) and it all ultimately leads to an absolutely awesome final battle (which feels somehow reminiscent of District 9). 

So by all means, go to see it for scantily clad blue cat women who are worryingly alluring, go see it as a piece of art or just sleep through the movie until you get to the final battle sequence and have some fun. It does have moments of sheer brilliance, but the mediocrity around those brilliant moments drag it down to just a passable movie for me. 

Oh yeah, oh yeah! One thing I forgot, the irony, "GO GREENPEACE!" (not literally backing greenpeace but it's telling us to think about our pollution and that crap) is pretty much the moral of this movie (every Hollywood movie has one) so LOL at the fact there are rumours that this film cost over 400 million, why not just give the fucking money to charity? Also why are the humans always arseholes in these movies? 


Think about it!


-Locke.