so many good things could be done with $400 million...

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2009)

I mostly liked - but did not adore - most James Cameron's movies I had seen before, and I really loved Aliens. I had high expectations regarding the visual concept of the film, and they were quite fulfilled, even though I didn't see it in 3D. The visuals are quite strong, while sitting in the theater you sometimes really feel like you live on this paradise- like planet light years away. But then, many animated animals and plants appear somehow tacky, some even are pure Kitsch. I hadn't thought much about the movie's content before entering the cinema. So I was hit hard by the foolishness and superficiality of the story, the characters and the plot. The intellectual level of the story was barely grammar school. Every little fairy tale I know demands more of your mind than this. The coarse- cut human characters and presumed lack of intellectual and spiritual development our human race will undergo in the next 150 years was just ridiculous - as well as the concept of the Noble Natives living on this far away planet, in perfect harmony with nature. And then the boring love story and the cheap militarism. What a waist of mind-power, material and money.