The following is an outstanding review of Avatar, and by outstanding, I mean well-written. Of course the movie sucks.James Cameron’s Unbelievium by Stephen Hunter
Avatar, the latest cinematic science-fiction epic, turns out to be a half-a-billion-dollar case of reinventing the Ferris wheel. The final product is a hyper-gaudy, brainless attraction that goes round and round and deposits you exactly where it picked you up, only you’re poorer and dumber and you’ll never get your 2 hours and 40 minutes back.
The longtime dream project of writer-director James Cameron, the perpetrator of Titanic, Avatar is big, impressive, and stupid. In fact it’s so stupid, it might well be called stupefying. What is so mystifying about it is that a man of Cameron’s technical sophistication could be so blinded by the banality of his vision. Stylistically, Cameron draws his inspiration from two sources, the westerns of the 1950s and the Vietnam War of the 1960s, about which he is an expert, having watched it on television.
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Stephen Hunter’s latest novel, I, Sniper, is out from Simon & Schuster. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2003
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