@city_lights31:
I love when people complain about how unlikeable a main character can be.
Hey citylights! I see you're trying really hard to attempt an argument. On the subject of stories. Here, let me help.
Watch a good war film, or better yet, a classic noir. Many great films have bastards as protagonists.
This for instance has NOTHING to do with Avatar! What you're speaking about is called anti-heroes. Which not only has nothing to do with likeability (which people freely apply to bastards) but nothing to do with the bland personalityless Marine person who was made into the hero of Avatar.
If you think he is an anti-hero, perhaps you actually SHOULD watch a good war film, or better yet a classic noir. So that you can see precisely how stupid this comparison is.
Basically it's important that people like a protagonist no matter what, even the complete bastards must gain our sympathy or at least our guilty pleasure. Something Captain Corrogated fails to do tremendously, of course he's not a bastard? So I don't know why this has been brought up at all.
He's more kind of like a vapid frat boy, but not even jerky enough to be a real frat boy. He's like an inoffensive frat boy. Which is even worse some how for how lifeless it is.
The main character in Avatar underwent a big (if not tired and cliché' ridden) change in his outlook on life. Like the plot, it was far from groundbreaking, but people expecting otherwise are out of their minds. Do you know who James Cameron is?
Yes! He's a man who made very good action movies that thouroughly understood what it was they were and were out to do.
Avatar on the other hand is a very very terrible attempt at a huge theme and takes it's laughable point very very seriously.
It also is completely lacking in the simple charm that made films like Aliens and Terminator 2 so fun.
For movies this big (or, as this is the biggest movie ever, even almost this big)
Avatar isn't a big movie, let alone biggest ever. It's just a loud one. It's actual size is completely miniscule. And it's highly irrelevant.
don't listen to other people.
Unless of course you hate the movie, then by all means listen to whoever you want.
But if it's a movie citylights likes for some reason, make sure to give it a special treatment it in no way deserves.
Don't listen to the hype and for the love of god don't listen to Roger Ebert.
Roger Ebert is awesome.
Try to approach it with absolutely no expectations. I can't say that means you will enjoy it but at least your opinion will be yours.
This is the most moronic fucking thing ever. Are you seriously implying that if someone sees something after hearing other things about it they don't have their own opinion?
That's completely stupid as fuck. You don't know a damn thing about critique. Sit the fuck down.
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@Flux:
Yeah this is really good advice. It's often these kind of films you either end up loving completely, or loathing completely - and a lot of the time hype can do that. You don't wanna go in with someone else's view. Or even more, don't want to take someone else's view just because their view seems to be popular consensus. Say what you feel.
I love how patheticly you guys are clinging to this notion that the movie is great as long as you don't go in for any hype.
When it's actually just an overlong bore that isn't even that good looking once you see it a second time and note how you've seen that same environment in at least 20 video games. It's action scenes are dull and pretty pathetic next to stuff even from just Aliens.