Visitors on this blog and commentators on Reddit gave me a harsh time on my post 10 reasons why ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’ is the most overrated movie of 2008! back in 2008.
So with this post, which is just based on a teaser, I’m not gonna be that harsh myself this time: I’m just stating 1 obvious reason why James Cameron’s Avatar is going to be the most overrated movie of 2009!
It’s being overhyped. Over-hyped. Uber-hyped.
If you still haven’t checked out the trailer, do it now:
And? Impressed? Underwhelmed? Overwhelmed? Also in HDplus? And would you be impressed on the big screen?
And the characters/aliens? Aren’t they just…average? If you’ve seen some good video games cinematics (lately), you possibly can’t be overwhelmed.
At the moment I’m very underwhelmed.
Although the story/plot of the movie, the big (3D) screen and actual dialogues may safe the movie when actually released.
It will probably make good money at the box-office and it may end up as a great movie after all…but at this time it’s just like I’m looking at a less clumsy blue version of Jar Jar Binks.
PS: the Avatar concept is a very cool idea and is ‘borrowed’ from a magnificent short story by my all-time favourite author Jack Vance, Phalid’s Fate.
And how about you? Are you impressed with (the Special Effects of the) teaser of this 200+ million dollars and 10 years in the making movie, which should ‘redefine’ the genre and ‘make real actors obsolete’?
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8 Comments
Feb 2nd, 2010
I absolutely hate computer generated Movies. I think a nice twist ending to the avatar would a blue alien hand pushing a delete key and the entire movie goes blank – in 3-D, of course.
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Jan 25th, 2010
this movie was extremely average with awesome effects. gay how he rode the main bad ass flying dude and gay how he could just beam to his avatar body…
gay how the humans just get defeated and dont come back to own their alien asses with nukes and sh!t … too many holes in the plot.
average movie
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Jan 14th, 2010
I like the graphics of this movie but the story isn’t really that good. It’s kinda childish and like you said the theme isn’t new. I was praying for it to stop but it was like 200 minutes.
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Jan 10th, 2010
lol it may have an original story line but other moves have had original story line as well. only reason this movie made large is because the so called amaxing CGI drew everyone in so basically it’s making large off new technology…..fucking crock off shit. FUCK YOU AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 8th, 2010
ok.. before watching this movie all my friends and coworkers made it seem like this is a really GOOD movie.. i watched it.. and didnt get it.. didnt understand whats so great about watching Pocahontas all over again. ok the 3D effects were cool but that too.. wasnt the best thing in the world.. i still enjoy the Terminator 3D at Universal better lol… the neon bright colours were cool.. ill give props to that.. but really THATS IT!! story was very CLICHE! DIALOGUE was lame.. to me.. a Great movie consists of everything right? i movie cant be good just cuz of special effects.. thats lame.. well sorry to burst anyones bubble who absolutely adored this movie.. thats my opinion anyway..VERY OVER HYPED BTW
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Dec 22nd, 2009
Avatar is overrated and too many fanboys are drinking the kool-aid! It’s not on the level of Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, which I expected since so many critics and people are in a rave. Great effects don’t make up for lousy story telling and political cheap shots. Focus on better writing and screenplay then you can give us your two cents about “FIGHT TERROR WITH TERROR!” Seriously?!! Overall, District 9 cost a small fraction of what this movie cost and it had, in my opinion, a better story, better acting, and the graphics were comparable.
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Nov 9th, 2009
I am underwhelmed. The story is unoriginal beyond belief – member of group A fights with group B, realises B are good and joins them. The graphics are great, but that’s really nothing special – there were good graphics before. The scope of the project? I don’t believe it’s that special – large Hollywood projects have always been huge in scope. Take any film – Gladiator, Godfather – any film with that budget would have thousands of original items researched, designed and manufactured. Doing that in 3D makes it even easier. Designing for another world is not somehow special – it’s just that the setting is another planet, not another era or another place on Earth.
The science behind this film appears to be weak and almost non-existent. The assumption the director makes is that technological progress will stop (artificial limbs are commonplace today – check out “Wounded Warriors” organisation, for example) and traditional ground combat will dominate the war, not use of smart robotic platforms. I don’t know how can he be so naive. If that’s just “creative vision”, it’s a retarded one. If you can grow a body, grow the guy some legs. If you don’t get it, James Cameron, grow yourself a brain, because your own one doesn’t function properly.
Stupid hype which I am not buying into.
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Wee Boon Tang Reply:
December 12th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Yes, but we must all remember what Avatar is: an original story (regardless of the level of originality) in a very, very long time. No movie would be able to top this one for years to come because movies nowadays, pardon me saying but, suck. S-U-C-K. CGI porn, that’s what it is. If Avatar doesn’t succeed to make money, we could all say goodbye to the possibility of better movies that would surpass Avatar. H-wood would say “I told you so” and that’s it for our fight.
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