So Ridiculous

Rating: 2/10 (8 April 2011)

Avatar is the most overrated movie that has ever come out ever. It is so ridiculous it's hard to describe, but I'm going to anyway. First of all, it is done by James Cameron as director, who is the biggest jackass on the planet, and forked over $300 million to remake Dances with Wolves, or Pocahontas, or however you want to cut it. It's a very expensive remake with a ridiculous and also very racist message at the core of it: the American white man is structured and intellectual, and the natives are savage and barbaric, and the white man is here to take what rightfully belongs to the natives. In the middle of it, there is a love story. This is Pocahontas with better special effects. Also, there is a slightly guilt ridding hippie message at the core of it: don't take what isn't rightfully yours and people are ruining the planet. Yeah, James Cameron, you spent $300 million on a movie (in the middle of a worldwide economic recession)just to put a stupid hippie message at the core of it....when in reality, you're just trying to beat your own record for Titanic. It's douche-baggery at its finest when you are "I'm going to spend millions of dollars on special effects--a special camera to show what the film might look like when it's done, and you're going to spend your hard-earned money to pay ME! Despite the fact that I'm already a millionaire, and motion capture just isn't good enough for me. It's good enough for Peter Jackson, Wes Craven and Tim Burton but not me!" I will admit, though, that the actors Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington did a great job with this movie. I applaud them both for great acting; they carried a ridiculous story and handled a jackass director beautifully well.