Avatar (2009)

It seems that by this point the directorial fatcats out in Hollywood have stumbled upon the magical fairy dust, inside the Holy Grail, that is sitting in Atlantis in terms of film making. Deliver to your audience something that has enough in the way of special effects to make you feel a sense of accomplishment for technological advancement just by going to watch the film and it doesn’t matter how awful you make the plot people will still flock to see it. Now apparently this script has been in the works since 1994 (15 years for those of you who are not so mathematically inclined) and yet despite that it seems like the script was written by a child with no grasp on the realm of words. As for creativity Mr. Cameron get’s an F, it was hard for me to tell where he got his inspiration from, (The European conquest of North America, the Vietnam War?) or did he like Dance’s with Wolves so much that he decided to transport it a couple hundred years into the future? Throw in a little hint at the idea of environmental responsibility (to a world that is trying to cut carbon emissions) and hey presto look what you have. Then again I suppose I shouldn’t have expected much from the man who, when pressed to write a really good inventive and creative screenplay... couldn’t come up with anything and stole “Titanic” and just added a love story in there for good measure. Which speaking of which, no one would have thought it possible that any human could write a worse love story then George Lucas, really, no human. However Lucas may have steep competition after this film. “Then why save me?”, “You have a strong heart” (I am sorry, really I am but seriously?) or the scene in the forest with the trees that tell you stories and we get to see the aliens “mate to become one” and who would have thought that he goes for the girl that saved him? (Show of hands, anyone?). As we stand at a cross roads to see whether or not technology will completely override the need for a good story it seems by box office performance that looks to be the case, then again people have been eagerly lapping up the scraps of Survivor and Big Brother for years now, and there aren’t even any good visuals in that so why am I so surprised?

Rating = Venus Film

Sincerely,

T.R.Z. Oswald