Sneaky27 Posted:

Right, because you’re the grand arbiter of enjoyment in the cinema? There’s more than one reason to see a movie, and more than one way to enjoy that movie. You clearly require complex and deep plot points to enjoy a movie. That’s fine, just try to keep from saying that people are very special for thinking any other part of a movie can be enjoyable.

Your viewpoint is not the only one. Learn some tolerance, Mr. Furry.

Oh, and movies, they are flashing lights. Do you not understand how the picture gets to the screen, or the mechanics of the illusion of movement?

Right, because you’re the grand arbiter of enjoyment in books? There’s more than one reason to read a book, and more than one way to enjoy that book. You clearly require complex and deep plot points to enjoy a book. That’s fine, just try to keep from saying that people are very special for thinking any other part of a book can be enjoyable.

Your viewpoint is not the only one. Learn some tolerance, Mr. Furry.

Oh, and books, they are paper. Do you not understand how the text gets to the book, or the mechanics of printing?

Hopefully you understand that a Novel is not a Pop-Up book, and the two are never compared, for obvious reasons. Someone who enjoys Shakespere is unlikely to enjoy Pat the Bunny in the same respect, however, while someone who enjoys Pat the Bunny isn’t wrong for doing so, they most certainly are wrong for trying to say that Pat the Bunny is better than Shakespere because it’s “funnerer” and “gots that soft fuzzy bit”. The two are simply not the same thing.

Avatar is not legitimate theatre, i’ll get back to this in a second.

Someone who likes Hot Tub Time Machine might not enjoy Precious, not because they can’t understand the complex story, but simply because they don’t get the same “escape” from it. However both movies are legitimate movies. While one may be simple, and one complex, they both tell a story built around characters and build everything up around that.

Avatar on the other hand takes a mediocre cookie cutter story told a million and a half times, and puts a fresh coat of paint on it. The story could never stand on it’s own, it’s thin, unoriginal, and while well acted the characters are boring as all ****. In addition to just sucking hard, people like this **** because Cameron is someone who has done good in the past. He can get away with this ****. Had it been a brand new director, but the same movie, it would not gross as much, nor receive the same fanfare.

Avatar is all about the visuals, not the story, the story really is an after thought. They followed every rule in the book of Disney in how to design the Na’vi. They use bright vibrant colors for the good guys and boring drab colors for the bad guys, this is fine in general, but not fine if the only thing you have going for you is visuals.

One could say Sin City is like this, but that would be a mistake, Sin City uses the visual style to enhance the story, not to replace it. The movie could have been made without the intense graphical style and still have stood. The same can not be said for avatar.

People who like Avatar, but refuse to admit it’s a glorified version of sesame street, are retards. The people who enjoy pretty colors _may_ be retards, but at least they understand that the movie is pretty much worthless otherwise.

People are entitled to an opinion, even if it’s wrong, but that doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t be corrected when they say that the story and message are great and that Avatar is more than a Polished turd.

And that is what Avatar is, an IMAX 3D Blue Polished Turd in Space.