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The one thing that Avatar shows us and more importantly Hollywood is that there is noting that can be conjured up in the human imagination that cannot be transferred onto screen and made to look real.

The only issue is the cost and considering that James Cameron has done half the work already, I would expect that the next one of these kind of movies will cost 20% less and will continue forward until it is the industry standard and we start to see small indie films using the technology.

That is great for th industry because although we may only have the big blockbuster movie today (which I love to watch) it sets a path which will allow even better movies to be made tomorrow.

Unfortunately we will have to endure a great deal of B-Grade drivel along the way. Luckily we don’t have to watch it.

Just for the record, I loved Avatar, every CGI soaked second of it.

I’m as interested in technology as everyone else but when it comes to movies, just because the bomb blast is bigger, doesn’t make it a better movie for me. Character/dialogue-driven movies are definitely preferred. Give me the Coen brothers/independent/foreign movies any day of the week.

I’ve always avoided science fiction movies or so-called commercial movies because it’s clear they are mainly focussed at american teenage kids and therefore severely dumbed down to entertain that market.

Due to all the hoo-hah, I ventured out a few months ago to see Star Trek and even though it was mildly entertaining, I still didn’t see what all the fuss was about.
I honestly cannot remember anything that happen in these type of movies or who said what, a few weeks later. Yet I can recall almost every line in Fargo which I saw 13 years ago.

Some people watch movies to escape from reality where I want to be challenged throughout. With these teenage-type sci-fi movies, you can leave the cinema for 30 mins, come back and it’s still just a matter of one group of monsters shooting at another group of monsters. The “originality” in these movies are solely based on which CGI techniques are used, regardless of content. It’s all just too predictable.

Dude in the bottom right hand corner wearing a Springbok Jersey

I don’t know about you but more than once I found myself substituting the name “Pandora” with “Vietnam”. The helicopters, the jungle, the invading American forces, the marginalised natives, the huge casualties – even the use of incendiary missiles and napalm towards the end, all looked a lot like those famous scenes from “Once We Were Soldiers”.