AVATAR defence league (part 1)
Our very own Sam Clements, Ritzy projectionist extraodinaire and regular contributor to this blog, took some umbrage at the recent 2-star review of AVATAR in Time Out. Never afraid to put pen to paper in the name of ‘perceived’ filmic injustices, he duly made his feelings known in a letter to the editor and was pleasantly surprised to see it, not only published, but the esteemed letter of the week no less!
Sam sent me this note.
They actually edited my comment quite a lot, but it was taken from the below two paragraphs:
‘It was jaw dropping from start to finish, it’s not because of elaborate set pieces or objects flying towards the audience, its because for 161 minutes, the audience is transported to a living, breathing and completely believable alien planet and get to witness its own eco-system and living jungle. The detail is obscene, but thoroughly rewarding.
All of this would of course be a waste of time if it didn’t have the storyline to back it up. Please don’t worry; this is as solid a sci-fi narrative as you could hope for, a classic fish out of water tale, with some depth. Whilst this is a hulking effort of cinema, the (uncomplicated) narrative is reassuringly solid, and revolves around a handful of intimate relationships. This gives the audience time to not only take in this fantastic new world being presented on screen, but to care about these characters and their development.’
Sam
P.S. I still haven’t got a reply from them about my champagne either… How annoying!
How nice. He’s wrong though: history will rank Avatar alongside Titan AE.
There are worse films than TITAN A.E. to be ranked alongside … admittedly, not very many though.
Wonder if Don Bluth will ever work again? It all went down hill after THE PEBBLE & THE PENGUIN!