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Originally Posted by dj_patm
Im sorry to me it felt like I was literally watching a cartoon. Made for Kids.
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In a way all these megabudget films ARE made for kids, because they need that audience. (Also the kids are the ones that buy the merchandise. So to succeed commercially a movie like Avatar simply has to appeal to kids as young as 13.
Not that it's such a horrible thing, a lot of us can find the kid inside us to enjoy a couple of hours of glitter and boom.
But when someone goes "OMG GREATEST MOVIE EVER" when talking about a movie like this, I just have to shake my head. (Funnily enough they make these "greatest movies ever" about once a year these days.)
There's more to movies than visuals. A PG-13 high production value sci-fi action flick can certainly be entertaining, but there's All That Other Stuff Too (great acting, dialogue, script and storytelling), and you can pretty much tell from the trailers that this is not going to make history in those categories. (Although you can't tell much about the story, but it hardly seems very original.)
So when someone goes "Greatest Movie Ever" over something like this, it pretty much means they're not that picky about the other stuff. WHICH IS TOTALLY OKAY BY ME.
It's just that this kind of hype has a negative correlation to my enjoyment of the film. For example I found Titanic to be so bad I'd rather turn the TV off and get bored to death (I was home alone sick, too tired to read and so on), and after Dark Knight I felt like my time was not only wasted, but I had actually payed money to get into a bad mood and have a brainache.
Still, I've yet to see a sci-fi flick that I hated that much, so I'm giving Avatar a chance despite the negative associations.
But I'll be surprised if I like it more than Primer, which had a budget of $7,000 and had to be watched twice just so I could get a basic idea of what happens in that movie.