Are The Oscars Becoming “Cool” Again?
The complaints about the Oscars not connecting with the regular person off the street have been becoming more and more faint
Tagged: Avatar
Avatar Has No “Hasta la Vista, Baby”
What Avatar was *NOT*, however, was particularly memorable. Which seems odd for one of the movies to have held the “highest grossing movie *EVER*” record for a while.
Why did Avatar’s script suck?
James Cameron’s op-ed on space exploration in today’s Washington Post offers a clue. Favorite line: “So it could be said that rockets really run on dreams.” (All snark aside, I like Cameron’s enthusiasm for...
Like eminent domain, but with guns and spaceships
Of all the too-close readings of “Avatar’s” stilted politics, I enjoyed David Boaz’s take the most. He argues that the film should be interpreted as a straightforward defense of interstellar property rights.
expectations of mediocrity
Of the many reactions to commentary over Avatar, my least favorite goes something like this:
On noble savages and the humanity of the ‘other’
Sullivan nods approvingly at this passage from Conor on Avatar’s Na’vi: The problem with the noble savage cliche is that it is demonstrably untrue. The people who inhabited North America before the arrival of...
Avatar
I finally saw Avatar (in 3D) without anyone threatening to beat me up. It was everything I thought it would be. The 3D was cool. The glowing plants in the jungle were really quite...
