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Avatar: Brilliant or overrated?
Two critics greatly disagree on what Avatar meant to them.
Jim Emerson: Where do we even begin to talk about "Avatar"? While I was watching it, I didn't think much about it except that it was a long sit, even in a spanking new theater with state-of-the art projection (though not "real" IMAX) and stadium seating. I was relieved I wouldn't have to write about it because there didn't seem much to engage my interest. Just some cool blue creatures (yes, I like the El Greco/Walter Keane look of the Na'vi), indifferent acting, generic story, dumbed-down dialogue, and sophisticated visual effects that take us not so much to another planet as to a place where everything looks amazingly like the same old CGI we've seen for years applied to a black velvet painting. In 3-D.
Glenn Kenny: Well, Jim, while I would never be so crude as to dismiss you as what the kids (and the more jejune film writers out there) would call "a hater," it seems pretty clear to me that you didn't, or couldn't, hook into the picture at all, and you responded to it with a near-instantaneous resentment. Said resentment stemming at least in part from your expectations and in part from your entirely understandable ambivalence in the wake of the movie's hype. And I say this, of course, with all respect and affection.
"By Jim Emerson and Glenn Kenny
Special to MSN Movies"
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2010 Academy Awards on MSN Movies
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