Comments on: Movie Review: Avatar

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nintendo dsi r4 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:34:55 +0000

There are visionary filmmakers – and then there’s James Cameron, who pushes the envelope of what is possible on the screen every time he makes a film. He doesn’t do it nearly often enough.

By: Lewis Cox

Lewis Cox — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:21:49 +0000

A fresh re-telling of an old, old story. This is wonderful cinematic beauty that is terribly marred by strict adherence to that tired old Hollywood commitment of story-telling with a sledge-hammer. The film pounds away at the cliche of white-guilt moralism and all characters are horribly stereotyped. And such a great and engaging film! Too bad it had to talk so far down to the audience.

By: Movie Review: Avatar | Bill Petro

Movie Review: Avatar | Bill Petro — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:47:12 +0000

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By: Bill Petro

Bill Petro — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:45:41 +0000

Indeed, I like both authors. Ursula K. LeGuin is the daughter of Kroeber, a prof at Berkeley after whom a building is named.

I especially liked her Wizard of Earthsea and its wizard school, which I felt was lifted for Harry Potter.

By: Bart Schaefer

Bart Schaefer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:05:09 +0000

Nice review, Bill.

I spent the latter half of the movie thinking Cameron should have credited LeGuin’s The Word for World Is Forest (look it up on Wikipedia). Of course there’s quite a bit of Gaia from Asimov’s Foundation’s Edge in there as well.