Three hours of your life going to waste!

Rating: 3/10 (30 December 2009)

I saw this last week in 3D and I have to say it: IT WAS TERRIBLE!!! I just couldn't get over the fact that the main characters looked like SMURFS ON STERIODE. I understand the symbolism of the story, but its just not very original. It's the pin-ball version of Dances With Wolves. The film looks like an X-box game and for me personally, that just looks disgusting on a cinema screen.
About the 3D, I think that's just fine for 15 minutes in Disneyland, but 3 hours(!!!) of it, that just gave me an incredible head ace. It doesn't add anything to the story itself.
It's not that I don't like science fiction or CGI. Last years WALL-E was my personal favorite of 2008. And last summer's Up (Pixar again) displayed in its first 10 minutes more emotion than the whole three hours of Avatar.
Steven Spielberg recently said he found Avatar the best film ever. But he's of course just protecting his own investments. After all, he's coming next year with Tintin. Also CGI and also in 3D. Because that is apparently the future of cinema.
This film is a smash-hit at the world wide box-office and for that reason it wouldn't surprise me that the always itself congratulating Hollywood will reward this with lots of Oscars. But if this is the future of cinema, I'm going to stay at home in the future.