Effects Don't Make The Movie

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2010)

If you strip away the cg effects from Avatar, it is nothing more than poor scripting and a heavy dose of cheesy, hammy acting. Although I'm a computer graphics artist and can appreciate the amount of work that went into the film, this obviously was where the majority of time, resources and money was spent. What really gets me about this film is the sheer amount of people who "apparently" loved it: having such a massive budget you can guess to the extent of the marketing and paying off of movie reviewers around the world to hold this film in high regard! Other than that, elements of our society who are too young to comprehend proper language yet and others who are intellectually challenged may have contributed somewhat to it's acceptance.
The bottom line is this, a film is only a film for the cohesiveness of the storyline, acting and artistic style. In a great film these elements compliment each other, clearly in this film the effects are the only thing holding it together.
It is indeed a sad day if this is the future for cinema.