Comments on: Holiday Weekend Box Office Results: ‘Avatar’ Stays at Top

By: DarkKnight300

DarkKnight300 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:43:33 +0000

I wish cameron would return to do more terminator films, maybe then the franchise will gain high-gross like this avatar.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:50:24 +0000

Wow. Avatar was great. I went into this film mindful of what people were saying about shallow plot and characters, but I feel those people were missing the point. It’s like going to a low budget art-house film and then complaining that there weren’t enough explosions…

James Cameron’s greatest talent has always been combining the various film-making techniques at his disposal and using them to their fullest potential. Like the original Terminator – he created exciting and suspenseful special effects sequences using all manner of low budget methods eg. stop motion, background projections, miniatures etc.

By: Xylem

Xylem — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:45:44 +0000

I saw Avatar in 3-D last night and all I can say is “OH MY CAMERON GOD!!” I am so lucky to live a time when someone can dream this thing up and share it with the rest of the world in such an amazingly beautiful, but cavalier way. Is the story of beautiful romance; stranger in a strange land; digital vs anolog new? Of course not… But what is new is the genius way this movie tells that oh so familiar story. For as challenging as it must have been to bring each of these vivid characters to life…simultaneously….while flying…and glowing, it is a testament to the visiony filmaker that the technology is not what your thinking about when Jake attempts to tame his own tourok (ok, maybe I was, but that’s because I’m a geek… and a girl). These amazing jaw drapping special fx could have very easily produced a look-what-I-can-do vapid film, but in Cameron’s hands the effects are just a tool that enables him to create to amazingly accessible characters with whom we relate to better than our own kind.

In all, our saving grace as a species is that although we are capable of and have committed many of the atrocities we are depicted committing in this film, we also have the capabilty to dream of how things could be if we made a concious decision to truly “see”Neach other and the many gifts we’ve been bestowed as a species. That J.C. (Cameron not Christ) has the toys and resources to share with us what he sees is just one more of those gifts and from the looks of these box office results, I would say it’s a gift we all opened for Christmas. Thank You J.C.!!!! (Again Cameron, not Christ).

@xylem108