Why I Won’t Be Running Out To See Avatar
First, and most importantly, is because it’s a tired storyline tied to a not really all that impressive setting. I don’t care how pretty a movie is supposed to be, this one looks sort of like melty cheese ass to me. And at nearly three hours it better have more than eye candy anyway.
The story is bound to be crap, so let’s look at these visuals. Yep. Sure are some blue fuckers running around. And some bullshit floating continents. Why are we mixing live action and cgi like this again? Don’t feed me shit about how good the cgi is either. District 9 had fucking amazing cgi, and the best part was that it was only used as needed. This is a bunch of shit that tries putting a vague bloom effect on everything to get your attention away from how the people and animation don’t visually mesh. Don’t get me wrong, it looks like a lot of hard work went into it and all, but it’s dumb to mix animation and live action on this sort of scale, unless you’re doing something like Cool World or Who Framed Roger Rabbit where that’s part of the setup.
So, it begs the question, why was it done this way? I think it’s because they didn’t want to be seen as making a cartoon, despite things like Reboot or Battle Planets being (presumably) more engaging because of the consistent visuals and rather less pretentious storylines.
Please, movie makers, stop ejaculating money onto the screen by the tera-gallon and calling it good. It’s usually just rehashed shit. For examples see the remake of King Kong, both Transformers, the Ang Lee Hulk, and so on.
Edit: Somehow I forgot to mention that one thing that absolutely angers me is how given a medium of incredible flexibility we’re given blue cat people.