Avatar is quickly on it's way to being the highest grossing movie of all time. This is deceptive because ticket prices are so much higher now than they were even 10 years ago. In actuality half the number of people have seen Avatar than saw Titanic. In adjusted dollars Star Wars is still way ahead of Avatar. So is Gone With the Wind, I believe.
Why rant on this you ask? Because I have to hear about it and see it all the time. It's EVERYWHERE, which means I get to vent my total bewilderment at the success of this film.
Here are some reviews which echo my own feelings about the movie (taken from Rotten Tomatoes):
- "Cameron’s signature achievement may have been to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the oldest of all Hollywood maxims: all the money in the world is no substitute for fresh ideas and a solid script."
- "...everything about the story, the setting, the dialog, and the parts that aren't purely visual is awful."
- "Avatar is overlong, dramatically two-dimensional, smug and simplistic."
- "Breaks technological ground with stunning visuals, but disappoints on story and characters - which still do matter."
- "Adjectives such as "beautiful" and "breathtaking" have been thrown at Avatar, and they're apt. But I'll throw in a third B: Boring."
- "... a largely humorless movie that plays like the sensitive white man-goes-native saga, Dances with Wolves in Outer Space."
- "It's impossible to fully consider James Cameron's long-in-the-making eco-opus Avatar without examining the film's technological wonders and storytelling blunders separately."
- "At times it's wince-inducingly weak, and no amount of lush visuals can disguise that. Nor can they disguise how second-hand everything feels."
- "There's just not enough here to make a complete and satisfying movie experience."
- "The technical wizardry is at the service of a recycled plot and a script rife with cardboard characters...and dialogue that sounds as though it had been lifted from the pages of a third-rate comic book."
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