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Saw avatar. Twice. The first time in 3D without glasses (because the batterie powered, microchip controlled, hight tech design 3D vision pair of glasses that I had wasn't working -- but this wasn't at all a problem as very few scenes are actually in 3D), and the second time in 3D with glasses.

Let me take this opportunity to get something out of the way: Movie directors, please, please, please, stop annoying everybody with that 3D shit. It doesn't work! It doesn't make your movie any better to show it to us in 3D. If you want to impress us, why not coming up with a... you know... that think called "story".

... and while being at it, Papyrus font, really James ? Didn't any of your design assistants learn anything at school ? You spent half a billion dollars on that movie, hired botanists to help you name the plants, and linguists to invent an entire new language from scratch and all you could come up with for the subtitles was that very piece of design shit ?! This is something for you: An Open Letter to James Cameron From Papyrus.


I actually remember the very first time, a long time ago, when I discovered that someone, and not anybody but James Cameron himself, was about to make a movie called Avatar. I don't know why but I then immediately thought "Yes! Finally someone is going to address the little problem of MMORPG immersion". Problem that I tasted once when I was spending more time playing World of Warcraft than talking to Aubrey.

I love Avatar for, at least, one single reason: everything is blue (this movie is more blue than The Matrix was green). I haven't read a lot about the various reviews (I found them quite bad to start with) which popped up all over the internet after the movie release, but all those I have read say, more or less, than Avatar is Cameron's statement about Imperialism and Biodiversity. Bullshit. One thing for sure, Avatar is nothing else than a perfectly mastered hybrid between The Matrix, Dance with Wolves, a tiny bit of The Last Samurai, but most importantly Pocahontas. The movie should have been called "Pocahontas in Space". All this, on an amazingly beautiful Alien world, which is so perfectly thought of, and rendered, that every single supporter of Intelligence Design will be masturbating at night in front of the DVD release.
.. but this is beside the point.

Avatar, if any, reminds me the following TED talk.





An this is why in the end I think that Cameron missed an opportunity. He missed the opportunity of actually talking about an interesting subject: Avatars.