On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:24:53 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> This is pretty close to what someone recently wrote as a review of
> Avatar. After a brief case of, "Wow, there are vines hanging all over
> the place.", you forget that you are looking at something CG at all. The
> problem, as he pointed out, is that the next guy to use what made it
> amazing will be used to make something that **won't** spend time on the
> story, and *will* scream CG because of it. It will be all about, "See,
> we can do this level of CG too!", and not about the story.

Interesting.  I'm somewhat apprehensive about Avatar myself; my wife's 
got friends who are disabled, and they're quite unhappy about one of the 
central the ideas behind the film being that if you're disabled, you 
couldn't possibly live a normal life and the pinnacle of hope is that you 
could do something that made you not be disabled.

Needless to say, my wife's friends who are disabled are fiercely 
independent and find that premise to be quite offensive.

I may rent it on Netflix once just to see the effects, but I don't have 
high hopes for the story.

Jim

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