You forgot to mention Sam Worthington's faptacular hotness. My ovaries kept wanting to hump his leg.
I'm usually fine with cliched stories if they're done effectively, but there was no emotional import behind any of it. In essence, it was Heroic White Man Saves Natives, complete with awful dialogue ("I see you", WTF?), underdeveloped characters, and one of the most derivative scores James Horner has ever written (and THAT, as we all know, is REALLY saying something).
The first half of the film was decent, because it was setting everything up - but by the time the second half rolled around, I was keen for some emotional attachment to anything, but it just wasn't there (although I wouldn't mind some emotional attachment with Sam's body hair FAP FAP FAP). It looked amazing, but there wasn't an original idea in the story, which made it feel all dressed up with nowhere to go. Perhaps James Cameron should spend less time on CGI boobs (http://gawker.com/5403302/james-cameron-reveals-his-quest-to-build-more-perfect-cgi-boobs) and more time employing a scriptwriter who doesn't suck (he's an incredibly talented director, but the scripts he writes are abysmal).
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Date: Friday, 18 December 2009 13:26 (UTC)I'm usually fine with cliched stories if they're done effectively, but there was no emotional import behind any of it. In essence, it was Heroic White Man Saves Natives, complete with awful dialogue ("I see you", WTF?), underdeveloped characters, and one of the most derivative scores James Horner has ever written (and THAT, as we all know, is REALLY saying something).
The first half of the film was decent, because it was setting everything up - but by the time the second half rolled around, I was keen for some emotional attachment to anything, but it just wasn't there (although I wouldn't mind some emotional attachment with Sam's body hair FAP FAP FAP). It looked amazing, but there wasn't an original idea in the story, which made it feel all dressed up with nowhere to go. Perhaps James Cameron should spend less time on CGI boobs (http://gawker.com/5403302/james-cameron-reveals-his-quest-to-build-more-perfect-cgi-boobs) and more time employing a scriptwriter who doesn't suck (he's an incredibly talented director, but the scripts he writes are abysmal).