I heard a critic in a program by a couple critics I like a lot and I can trust.
What they said:
- Wonderful effects.
- Very fun.
- A renewal of film.
- Piss poor story. Very predictable. It's Pocahontas, last mohican. Takes old films and makes a patchwork out of them. A masterfully glued patchwork, which is that holds the film together as fun. But the lameness of the story prevents it from being a masterwork as it would have been with a good story.
- Full of "goodism" (that is, weak childish kind of thought, we live in the country of lollipops and cute kitties and things work that way).
- A very rudimentary and obvious ecologist message.
- Fortunately the big FX display gets over everything else and makes it fun.
Their conclusion is that it's a must see, but not a great film.
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On my part, each new thing I know about it, the more I despise the film and more determined to never watch it.
I hate the good savage myth, so loved by every totalitarian regime. I don't think it goes to the extent of the aryan paradise of old where things were wonderful because the na'vi were pure bloods. I really don't expect it, would clash with other points of the film (goodism), so I don't expect the wheelchaired guy shown as the one who will bring the impure blood that will ruin the na'vi splendours. But still, the myth that everything that makes humans above animals should be removed, to express it directly to the last consequence. Yay for living in caverns and eaten by wolves before 18 years old or yay for the feudal style tyrannies.
I didn't like what I heard from someone about the big tree fall being reminding of the 11-S and the aftermath takes reminding him of the Zero Zone. Though it may in fact be something to see positively.
Now I find it's about some guy in a wheel chair that uses a telepathically and genetically engineered body to infiltrate and falls in love, etc, etc. Which in my opinion just destroys and makes cheesy the development of a possibly good thread to follow in the story. And makes me sure it is dealt in a very childish, or just simplistic, way.
