Let me first get my complaints out of the way because there are so few. THIS POST IS ALL SPOILERS: -The hammerhead creature: when Jake encounters this rhino, there is an angled profile shot of it stomping and growling. It looks out of place because it looks like something you’d see in a museum-produced documentary. [...]
Entries from December 2009
December 27, 2009
The Attraction of Avatar Part I: The Director and Technology
Twelve years I’ve been waiting for the next James Cameron movie. Two years I’ve been waiting for his vision of a scifi epic adventure in a time where, hell, I can’t name you the a recent example of its kind. Did Avatar live up to the hype? Is the technology behind the movie a game [...]
December 11, 2009
An Empty Shelf For My Movie Collection
Over at the Guardian, Cory Doctorow wrote an article about how the movie and TV industry believe streaming is the new and safe way to give us content; safe because there is the transaction between provider and custom, and zero sharing. It’s this last part that has the technologically naive excited. They assume that because [...]
December 1, 2009
Eyes on Avatar: Part 2
Ever since the theatrical trailer I’ve said I’m on an Avatar blackout. I’ve snuck in a few videos here and there; I’m incredibly picky, limiting myself to the occasional TV spot and not touching any character/creature/vehicle profiles or even listening to the James Horner score cuz I read somewhere that the music titles are spoiler-tastic. [...]
