Saw Avatar , and while I will admit I had fun ...

[UndertheOcean]

and the visuals and eye candy were gorgeous, it still struck me as very forgettable .

I can still remember the setting , the room , the stains on the couch on which I watched "Persona" .... I still vividly recall the anguish that materialized into tears in Dustin Hoffman's big scene in "Death of a Salesman". The I still live within "Barry Lyndon ", a film that humanized an alien culture in an alien era from my perspective .

Heck , I still recall how my heart pounded after watching "Pulp Fiction".

With "Avatar" , despite all the stunning imagery , 5 years from now when I reminiscence about it my inner state will probably be :

"MEH"


Cameron is technically proficient , problem is he has no soul.

[MrCoffee]

1. This

is an excellent review. "Cameron is technically proficient , problem is he has no soul."


I haven't seen it yet, and I want to, but my biggest hesitation is exactly what you stated in your review.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Nice, thanks.

A roommate today chastized me for thoroughly disliking Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. He called him the best guitarist, ever. I say that, like Avatar, he is technically proficient, and has no soul. Two notes from any blues player would take Eddie out of the game. :shrug:

[kayakjohnny]

5. Very very true.

Spot on. He falls way short on the list of soulful musicians in general, guitarists aside.

[unpossibles]

3. I have not seen it (yet?) but that's what I figured

Cameron's a better film maker than Micheal Bay, but that's not saying much.

[kayakjohnny]

4. I thought something similar after seeing the extended trailer.

Damn, I knew it.

Thanks.

Guess my intuitive side still works.

[cynatnite]

6. I thoroughly loved the movie...

I thought Cameron did a fabulous job with the Na'vi..in both appearance, culture, and heart. He created a language and that's no small feat.

There will always be someone somewhere who doesn't like a certain critically aclaimed film. I thought the movie Crash was horrendous, but it still won best picture.

In the end, it's all relative.

[proteus_lives]

7. Spot-on.

Candy for the eye but nothing else.

Cameron used to have a soul but he's now a zealot convert of the church of Hi-Tech.

Back in the day, he created Terminator and Aliens. Real sci-fi films.

In Avatar, the characters were one-dimensional, the storyline blunt and unconvincing. A bad Dances with Wolves in Space.

[JimGinPA]

8. Yeah, And The Mona Lisa Had a Fucked Up Smile...

I've seen Avatar three times now, once in 3D and twice at a nearby theater that doesn't have a digital 3D projector. In my opinion the film is nearly flawless. The assertion by the OP and a couple of the other replies in this thread that it somehow lacks "soul" is just absurd.