I just saw Avatar. Or rather, I saw Princess Mononoke + Aliens 2 + loads of bollocks. Except it had none of the complexity of Princess Mononoke and none of the comedic charm of Aliens 2, but seriously, did anyone expect subtlety from Cameron et consortes?
On the plus side, stunning visuals, unapologetic women and great voice work from Zoe Saldana. Oh, and Sigourney Weaver kinda still got it, though the bland script gave her nothing interesting to do actingwise.
On the minus side, they spent so much moolah on this? A cliche-on-cliche, pot-hole-rich story that was predictable from the get-go? A white guy learns how to be good to the sweet indigenuous folks? Thank God the avatar was blue and had a clever tail.
Things for which the film (as a collective enterprise) should be strangled, annihilated, given a cinematic raspberry? The fucking soundtrack.
