maggosh wrote:Would you mind telling me how a human running around with overgrown Smurfs in an overgrown Smurf costume constitutes an environmental message movie?
Because if you watch the movie, you will know that the smurfs are 'one with the trees', but there is some stuff that is worth loads of money underneath those trees, and so - because humans are EVIL] - they are after this stuff. What this stuff is made of, what it does....Cameron never tells us.
And if that isnt in-your-face enough, the guy running the....corperation with no name, is an a$$hole who after listening to a long lecture about how innocent, peacefull, holy, cleasned of all sin, not-trying-to-convey-an-enviromental-message-whatsoever the smurfs are - laughs.
But then, the Smurfs grab their magic rings....and Captain Planet appears!! And together, they all save Ferngully from destruction, Pocahontas marries the British guy, and our hero decides he wants to live in Atlantis forever.
Oh, and I know I'm nitpicking but why is it that when the Navi (WHAT AN ORIGINAL NAME FOR BLUE PEOPLE!) shoot arrows at planes when their tree is being blown up by the big-bad military (military blowing stuff up.....how original) the arrows only scratch the glass....but when they do it later, the arrows are suddenly able to smash it? Oh and a bunch of native creatures assisted by rebels destroying the military *COUGH*Star Wars Episode 6*COUGH*
Overall: I dont like Avatar. Sure, I can smell the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.....but the story could not possibly get any dumber or unoriginal - and this is from the guy who did 'Terminator', 'Titanic', and 'Alien'. Definitely one of James Camerons worst movies.
-MRB