Avatar: Hot or Not?
It’s been ten years since Titanic, and the public want some Jimmy Cameron. But will his much anticipated Avatar be the film that broke the box office’s back?
I saw the trailer on the weekend. My though process went something like this:
HEY! That’s Sam Worthington. He sure looks better on the big screen than last time I saw him in the wee hours at The Judgie. Oh wait, is that the chick from fast and the furious? Wow, that planet looks cool. Pandora huh? I have a friend named Pandora…GIANT BLUE CGI ALIENS.
After that I kinda lost what was going on. I love these futuristic comments on colonialism, the mistakes of our past replayed in parallel contexts for us to ponder upon. It’s nice to think that some military hoon would feel sympathy for the ‘natives’ and rebel, but in real life we know that people don’t really fight wars anymore, just robots.
But srsly, the idea seems rad. The execution and animation? Not so. Even the title seems like one of those ploys to capitalise on cool internet speak - but we all know how that turned out for the i-snack 2.0…
UPDATE:
Turns out Avatar was cool, as was the animation. But I have also found out that an Avatar is actually a Hindu word that means a diety descends from heaven. An incarnation if you will.
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