POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Avatar : Re: Avatar Server Time
5 Sep 2024 03:20:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Avatar  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 22 Jan 2010 10:40:01
Message: <web.4b59c5b033365a7b6dd25f0b0@news.povray.org>
"Captain Jack" <Cap### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> There is some amazingly odd and hard to validate science going on in this
> movie. Most of the time, when that happens in a movie (Armaggedon, anyone?)
> I find the film unwatchable. I was so caught up in Avatar that it didn't
> even register with me until later, and even then, I shrugged it off with a
> "who cares, it was great" attitude. :-)

Cameron is good at that. Aliens (and to a lesser degree, Terminator) also manage
to get enough detail right, in a well-paced story, that you don't mind (or
indeed notice) the potential problems.


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