Comments on: Avatar is no Star Wars

By: cinecynic

cinecynic — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:53:15 +0000

You’re right about the Star Wars comparison. I only fell to land on the other side of the comparisons (people in the other camp have begun).

I also agree about he not going overboard with the effects. He could easily have done that. But he could have done several other things, which he didn’t, and that’s what I complain about.

By: Yogi

Yogi — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:41:57 +0000

I think Cameron deserves some Kudos for not having misused his power.

Here was a powerful 3d technology with which it was easy to go overboard… to try and make the viewer duck and sway.

Cameron resisted the temptation to a large extent and the movie is better on account of that.

As for the Star Wars comparison, let us withhold judgment for the time being.

Let us give it a decade or three and see how it holds up in popular culture and what sort of impact its sequels have.

By: Cine Cynic

Cine Cynic — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:45:35 +0000

You mean four-lettered expletives. You’re right. I could just as well have said, “We don’t care.” I guess I was tempted. On hind sight, it may have been an influence of James Ellroy whose books I’m reading now.

By: Sameer

Sameer — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:21:40 +0000

I suppose there are ways to expose the truth that do not involve the usage of four-letter words.

By: Cine Cynic

Cine Cynic — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:16:05 +0000

That is a new for me, yes.

A “professional” might have learnt to beat around the bush, sugarcoat bitter things. But a professional should learn to strip away all decorations and allow the truth become plainly visible. Don’t you think?