I feel I need to watch this again to give it the attention it deserves. What I've got at home is a crude cinema copy which I bought just to be able to say that yes, Ive seen the film. I did try my best to pay attention to the story, the effects as you would expect was lost to me, none of the magic comes across when you're watching a crude cinema copy. After a few minutes to the movie, I was bored but the movie buff in me tried to hang on because often the good ones start a bit slow. On the half-hour mark, I threw the towel. Not this wasn't the Avatar that was crocked up to be, I mean everybody, every single person I spoke to loved it. I on the other hand simply didn't get it. It kind of reminded me of that old television series where humans lived with an alien race, was that V? Well I hated that series, something about humans canoodling with aliens is just off-putting to me. I want my aliens to be the enemies, like in the X files. I want them to be bad and destructive not sensitive and intelligent. So I should like Avatar right? Because in this film the tables were turned, it was us humans wanting to subjugate an alien race. Hope I got that one right.
So I didn't get it and I'm a bit bemused because I'm usually sold to the mainstream popular stuff. Somehow I feel I owe everyone an apology for not liking it one bit. But I'm willing to give it another shot, hopefully with a clear copy or even inside a movie house.
Author: Monie Maunay
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