Avatar worth the hype?

Ok. So this movie is something we have all been hearing about for several months. In fact, I had some people asking me if I had seen it already. Well, it didn't come out till today but that doesn't mean I haven't seen it before.

Avatar is a flick where some greedy mother fucker finds some mineral that is worth a shit load of money on this foreign planet. There are a group of scientist who try to study the planet and it's people. Greed gets in the way, some get sentimental, war breaks out. Shit hits fan. Yep. Sounds like a story that has been done before.

In fact, that is one of the issues I had with it. It is like they took the ideas for several movies and rolled them into one. If you have seen any of the following items, then you have an idea on how this one goes. Lion King, Last of the Mohicans, Braveheart, Pocahontas, Michael Jackson's Billy Jean Video, Titanic, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe or know the American History of the Trail of Tears.

Not only is the story a knockoff, but you can find other knockoff concepts throughout the flick. From the airships to the animals, you can find a reference to almost everything.

I guess what I am trying to say is this movie screamed the whole time it was promoted that was something new and original. Lies I tell you... All lies!

Overall though, the movie wasn't that badly done. There is so many computer generated effects it would make a video game jealous. They are pretty to look at and they do mesh well with the live action shots.

Unfortunately, I can not say the same about the acting. It is horrible. That is all I am going to say about that.

This movie boast the direction of James Cameron, but that really doesn't help either. While watching his famous work Titanic, it took two hours before the ship finally started to sink. We all knew it was coming, there was no surprise. The damn storyline moved as fast as the damn iceberg. Avatar is no different. You know war is coming, it is inevitable, and the damn previews told me it was going to happen. But to get to that part, I got to sit through 2 hours of sexual tension. Yup, just like Titanic.

So, the bottom line. Should you see this flick. It is three hours worth seeing, but only once, at a matinee price. Three hours is a long time to be sitting there. I bet some people probably think it is the greatest movie made this year. I know because I heard them saying that as I exited the theater. If you like to be spoon-fed someone else's left-overs, then yeah, it is pretty good.

This movie gets a one night stand out of a cherry pit (2 out of 5). Cameron may have brought us Terminator, but everything else he has brought us has sunk.

Birddogger Out.