{"id":7401,"date":"2010-02-07T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2010-02-07T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:55:00","slug":"james-cameron-avatar-aeolist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/james-cameron-avatar-aeolist\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron, Avatar Aeolist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AddI took my mother to see Titanic when it came out. As soon as the first actor spoke, I knew it was a mistake: my mother at the time was in her late 70s, but her mind was – I was going to say the equal of a 20 year old’s – when idling, the equal of the combined mental capacity of fifteen average 20 year olds concentrating hard. She liked her films to contain interesting dialogue<\/em>, a commodity that had been thoroughly expunged from Titanic.<\/p>\n

So my expectations from James Cameron’s latest attempt to turn the graphics backdrop of Far Cry 2 into a film were low. I watched it this evening and was not disappointed; my mother, were she still with us, would not have approved.<\/p>\n

Leaving aside the inevitable demonising of the military, large corporations and industry, the lionising of noble savages in ecstatic pantheistic harmony with their computer game vegetation – all of which are irritating enough in their own right – the dialogue was so mind-numbingly trite, it make Titanic look like Proust.<\/p>\n

For those who are interested and want to save 3 hours, the story is: nasty men want a rare mineral that is under the noble savages’ village. Nasty men try to kill noble savages to get rare mineral; some enlightened scientists and a crippled soldier help the noble savages drive out the evil humans with bows and arrows and send them back to their own planet which is not green; in fact Gaia earth is dead. Finis.<\/p>\n

And it was very long.<\/p>\n

Other than that, I enjoyed it from the professional perspective of marvelling at how many hours it took to render so many pixels for so little edification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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