Thursday, December 24, 2009

Thoughts on Avatar






I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it.




You read what others had done and you took the next step.











You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility... for it.



You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!




Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.






Here's the thing, Avatar is one hell of a tech demo. James Cameron has definitely built one hell of a world for this movie. The problem is that it's a world full of cliches. It's very pretty to look at, it's engaging, but it's lacking a soul.