I know that this is a blog about games, but right near the word games is the word and, and behind that is stuff. So today I have to talk about stuff. While I typing I might as well start something, like Movie Reviews by Me! Anyway, around late 2009, I was laughing at all the jokes making fun of that horrible movie, Avatar. It's going to be horrible...blah, blah, blah...
So then it actually comes out and people are dancing around in a flower meadow, cancer has been cured, Cuba is free, scientists find life on the moon, there are aliens in the sea. Now that we're on the topic of James Cameron, let me thing of something to rant about. While I was watching Avatar, I realized that half of James Cameron's movies are pretty predictable. This guy falls in love...major disaster...someone important dies. The thing it's more stretched. The reason why Avatar and Titanic are so long is because Cameron realized, if people have time to get really attached to the characters, they will cry a river to the oscars. It worked for Titanic, but instead the main charcter lived in Avatar...so where is he going with this?
It's been a few months, and I have convinced myself not to see Avatar. Cameron is counting the money...but non of it is mine. Finally I decided to see it...in the old fashion theatre, no Imax for me. The story is this guy dies so they go to his brother, at the funeral, and offer him a job...more specifically his brother's old job. He connects to his avatar...or something like that...
Blah, blah, blah, blah...everyone hates the humans because we're destroying everything randomly...blah, blah, blah...this guy falls in love with one of the aliens...the military is going to destroy the aliens, but this guy is all like, 'we can do it,' which is strange because they are about 2,000 aliens with bows and arrows, against 500-3000 advanced soldiers with advanced weapondry. The main charcter escapes with his buddies, stealing some of the avatar gizmos to their secret lairer. For some reason the colonel rallies his troops, who strangely all look like truck drivers, to bomb the aliens, but instead of sending modern F-22s to just get the job done, he sends these weak and slow helicopters that have to manually drop a crate full of C4. I thought this was supposed to be the future? Anyway, when the aliens were shooting at th planes nothing happened, but in the big attack when an arrow hits the plane everything breaks and the plane crashes. There were even some times where a single alien took down 3-5 armed soldiers with his bare hands. For some reason it takes like 10 minutes worth of dramatic effect before they can drop the bomb, so by then a group of 1 or 2 aliens have alreay took down have the fleet. The human forces on the ground don't really know what to do they start burning everything. Meanwhile, the main character has been single handedly taking down the big planes with a hand grenade or two, flying from plane to plane. The colonel sees this, so he starts shooting the glass, killing the pilots and such. In the end the humans loose somehow and are shooed away.
People keep saying this movie was awesome. I hated it! It was horrible! I goes it was OK...but it doesn't deserve the credit it has gotten. The 3D was probably just a thin layer of coolness to shield the plot from critics like me.
