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Teddy Ray - I got no dog in this fight. I didn't make the movie, didn't sponser it. I loved the movie. As for cliches - I haven't SEEN a movie not rife with them. At a certain point you (I) gotta go, "yeah, alright." Every story line has been covered a trillion times already. There are only so many times to swing a story.
That said I liked what Avatar had to say. I thought the movie was huge and bent some previous boundaries. As a being it uplifted me and I was in awe at the possibilties. It said something, certainly not original, but still profound about humanity.
Hurt Locker was, to me, a very good war movie. But one I've seen time and time again. And as in all war movies, not really true. The acting was stupendous, which is something you can't say for Avatar.
Hurt Locker was just OK in my book. He was rogue because he needed his fix to give him purpose to go on living. Acting was great. Story was good. Direction was great. Nothing against that movie. Portrait of a man kind of gone crazy to keep sane. Interesting, because it took you deeper into why some heros are heros.
But Avatar took me some place else. And I've said elsewhere in this thread it was a remake of Ferngully. So in the f what?
Listen I'd say sorry, but there's no reason to apologize. I think arguing about movies is fine, but being disrespectful and attacking a person for his love of art is beyond my bounds.
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