PCS Roundtable: James Cameron’s AVATAR Dissected
Posted by: Shola Akinnuso on December 30, 2009 at 5:24 pm
It was a spirited discussion as the PopCultureShock Crew goes in on James Cameron’s most ambitious project to date. Is AVATAR a cinematic achievement, or is this 12 year, 237 million dollar effort, the death of 3D film making before it ever truly begins?
Threading issues of race, ecology, and spiritualism with good old fashioned sci-fi fun, James Cameron has created, if nothing else, the most TALKED about movie of the yuletide. Have YOU seen AVATAR yet?
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Was the movie worth the 12 year wait? How does this rank on the Cameron scale?
Kayode: “The man clearly knew what he wanted, and he was extremely patient in waiting for technology to come around. And not just patient, because he had enough faith in his ideas to say, “I’m going to do what I can to help develop new technology.” That’s a serious undertaking, and for me personally, it’s all up there on the screen. ”
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So the movie was an unqualified success?
Matt: “Cameron’s focus on making the environment of Pandora an amazingly complex character in itself seemed to be done at the expense of giving most of the supporting characters more than broad-stroke archetypal personalities”
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Did the movie really usher in the start of the 3D era?
Shola: “Visually, the movie was outstanding. Actually, to be honest, the hype of calling it a ‘game changer’ isn’t unwarranted. Not only is this one of the best uses of 3D that I’ve ever seen, but it provides fantastic motivation to get your ass back into the theater again and off of the computer.”
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Ernie: “I’m not even going to get into the debate about race, because to me the issues at hand aren’t about race at all, they’re much bigger than that, and if you’re trying to focus on one specific group rather than what everyone has done as a whole, then you miss the point of the film.”
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1. Was the movie worth the 12 year wait? How does this rank on the Cameron scale?
2. Was the movie was an unqualified success?
3. Did the movie really usher in the start of the 3D era?
4. The movie’s nothing if not controversial. Half of the people complain about James Cameron’s ‘tree-hugging’ liberal slant while the other half of movie goers are sick of the ‘white guy saves the natives’ tone. Do you guys feel that it’s all overblown?
5. Haven’t we seen this movie already this year? Wasn’t it called District 9?
6. There’s Oscar buzz, but is the oscar talk from the performances, the CG, or an acknowledgment of the astronomical 237 million dollar budget?
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