Movie Avatar

Have you or anyone you know seen the new movie Avataryet? It is currently available in the video stores, on blu-ray, and on the pay-per-view channels. I haven’t made the choice to rent it yet on PPV-TV that I have on the satellite dish. I’m not so sure I would like this movie, but there is a lot of buzz around it. It’s another science fiction movie that has went way over the budget, in terms of putting together these spectacular scenes that look really cool. I hear the same guy that did this movie, was also the person who did the Titanic movie; which was not a science fiction movie.

I look at Avatar like the Lord of the Rings movies. These are just fantasy movies; where the older kids and some of the science-fiction-loving adults like to spend their money on. I would prefer a movie that was based on a true story. I haven’t heard anyone say that Avatar was a fictional movie, but just by seeing the previews and some of the stills from the movie Avatar, I think its safe to say this is a fictional piece of work.

I can tell this movie involves a love story. This seems to be the only way Hollywood directors and writers can create plots these days. For their movies to have a plot, they feel like they need a few scenes of dialogue and a love story brewing in it. I wish these guys living out in L.A. would create more movies with a good plot and do it without doing the same old love story; that’s been done a hundred million times or more. I’m not for sure the Avatar movie is a love story, but a lot of the clips I have seen, certainly suggest that it is a love story.

Shawshank Redemption

If you remember the movie Shawshank Redemption, you can remember how well the plot was in this movie. It was another “Escape From Alcatraz” type movie, but more importantly, it achieved a good plot without going down lovers lane. It is possible to create a good movie and a movie with a plot, without having the same old love story we see in so many Hollywood movies. I think more directors and writers should use the formula from the Shawshank Redemption movie to create stories with plots. The story-line of a movie has to be good and it has to look appetizing from the start. If a new movie doesn’t do something good or fantastic in the early scenes, most movie-watchers may not stick around to see what happens next. A movie like Shawshank doesn’t grab us at first, but luckily a few people did stick around to see what this movie was about and soon the word got passed around enough, where everyone wanted to see what the Shawshank buzz was about.

Does anyone think this new movie Avatar will grab us in the way the Shawshank Redemption did? I guess it’s possible, since I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I don’t think its going to stand up to the Shawshank very well. I’m already turned off by the love story that appears to take place in the movie Avatar. I hope James Cameron and his crew gave more than just a science fiction love story, which has some really cool-looking creatures playing in it. I guess I will just have to watch Avatar soon, so I can say for sure, if this is a good movie or not.