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| Review by Ross Anthony | ||
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I'd been meaning to try the dbox experience with 3D, aka the 4th D, aka motion/vibrating seats. Seemed to me, Avatar would be the perfect film for that. I had heard there's a certain subset of the population who finds these haptic motion technologies annoying. I thought I might be in that subset and asked If I could control the intensity. Happily, there is a control, though to my surprise, I found the experience far less aggressive than I expected - and ran it at top intensity for the duration. Yes, this added to the magic of movie immersion. This presentation did not include scents, mist, flashing lights etc. I'll have to try that at another time. While I think Avatar would still look beautiful in 2D, the 3D gives you that extra bit of immersion. I recommend it. Beautifully painted digital eye-candy. And who doesn't like the feeling of flying on the back of a dragon-like beast? The art and the flying in this film are all absolutely top-notch fantastic. And then there's the bang-bang-bang - boomness of it all, which riddles this masterpiece with bullets. Apparently, I'm in the minority, but I wanted to walk away from this film inspired with the awe of its magical moments, not with despair and the rat-a-tat-tat of its war machine. Sadly, the later overwhelms the former. James Cameron is a genius of film, he has single-handedly changed the action genre ... elevated it for the better. I want to dare him to change the genre again by approaching filmmaking with the same disruptive bravery of this film's most human human character played by Jemaine Clement. Can Avatar 4 bulldoze war, be all about magic & wonder and still excel at the box office? In T2, the script demanded less killing of its number one action star. I dare James Cameron to make a blockbuster action film with no killing. The first Avatar film made an excellent point. It illustrated the dangers and destruction of brutal colonization. But that point is lost in Avatar 3, which while an amazing spectacle, is still squarely a war movie, glorifying the drama and mechanics of war.
I know gun films sell. But I also know Cameron loves challenges. I challenge Cameron to make a blockbuster that doesn't rely on killing to sell, but delivers exclusively the thing that he is clearly gifted at creating on screen - wonder.
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