I was goong to say it was more a tech demo since they made the insta-CGI machine for it. But then he went and made a second one about abandoning your home, getting your new one in the same trouble, and whales.

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

That's how I saw it, a tech demo for the cgi and the 3D TVs that everyone now has.

I saw the second one and literally don't remember anything about whales. So that's how much I paid attention.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I say that Avatar is the cinematic equivalent of having one of those monstrous huge old keyboards with eight hundred different preloaded sounds and instruments and pressing the DEMO button and listening to five minutes of every ridiculous sound effect known to God and Giorgio Moroder, and with about the same artistic merit.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Proof that graphics matter more than anything else😔

[–] pathos@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

@li10

@Clbull

I very much enjoy the first movie. I have watched it several times and still enjoy going back to it. I absolutely agree the plot is puddle-deep, as you said, and it makes no attempt at all to disguise its analogies ("unobtanium"), but it's mastery is not in the story itself but the way in which it is told. It's almost operatic in the amount of time it spends within each story beat. The second film failed to do a lot of the things I loved about the first one and was very forgettable.