WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT RED BEARD?
Well I’ll tell you. Part of our desire here at We Have Beards is to start a conversation about the arts. Everyone loves to sit around a table and discuss what they’re watching, reading or listening to. We’re no different. In fact some of us have addictions to these things.
It’s important to us that this not be a one-sided conversation. So I want to invite everyone to help me review Avatar. Help us start the conversation. Let’s talk to each other.
Read all of the comments before posting. Then add your own take. Don’t be afraid to address a specific opinion. There are no dumb comments. Unless you count what I’m going to say.
REVIEW BEGINS NOW
Avatar has already made over one billion dollars and will likely make two to three billion by the time DVD sales and TV deals are made. But does money mean everything? I’ve heard the film being compared to Fern Gully and thought that was appropriate. I myself thought it was just like Disney’s Pocahontas.
It was no doubt fun but what happened to James Cameron? The man who brought us Abyss. A beautifully made, well-written film. Avatar was full of poorly written dialogue and scenes stolen from other movies. I don’t think the quality of a film should be measured by how much money it will bring in but I’m not naive enough to think that the bottom line isn’t the deciding factor in whether a film is made but I was hoping that an artist like James Cameron would decide to make a movie based on the quality of the story and not on how much money he could make.
So for me Avatar was a let down in terms of art but I guess a success in terms of entertainment. I just wish that the old James Cameron was still around because then he might have been able to be successful in both.
Now tell me what you think.
