Avatar: Fire and Ash made $1.4 billion at the box office but is still seen, by some, as a disappointment -- now Disney is taking a hard look at further sequels.
Honestly I think the movie would have been far better as a “nature documentary” type film about all the creatures and ecosystems of this alien planet, if they spent most of the movie actually focused on the artistry of the concept artists, CGI artists and animators instead of focusing on a lame overdone plot with paperthin characters and tropes then I think it could have been something wonderous.
Instead you get a work of art that assassinates a beautiful wild periphery of concept artists and CGI artists with a crushingly boring plot that insists on tearing down what drew people into the story in the first place, a raw expansive visual creativity that pre-existed before the imposed, lame hero’s journey…
Humm well now I feel like I’m missing out a bit and should probably watch it for the eye candy at least and put the story and main characters in the back of my mind. I would watch something like that, like Planet Earth with Attenborough except on an alien planet, it would be fun.
Yeah I would love a version of Discovery Channel’s Alien Planet but with much better science writing and that focused on explaining interesting reoccurring patterns in ecosystems in evolution on earth through the lens of a fictionalized yet scientifically sound vision of a somewhat plausible alien ecosystems.
I even loved the idea of the cute robot that serves as a sort of simple plot about what happens to it as it explores. Does it avoid danger or get ensared in it?
The plot would not be the focus though, I am thinking Tarkovsky’s Stalker levels of visual and elemental expansiveness but in a genuinely entirely scifi context.
Something like Scavenger’s Reign but less obsessed with human violence and more just focused on the experience of a vibrantly portrayed alien ecosystem.
Like Mad Max: Fury Road but with cool animals instead of cool post apocalyptic cars and motorcyles… ok maybe I am stretching the metaphor too far here.
Honestly I think the movie would have been far better as a “nature documentary” type film about all the creatures and ecosystems of this alien planet, if they spent most of the movie actually focused on the artistry of the concept artists, CGI artists and animators instead of focusing on a lame overdone plot with paperthin characters and tropes then I think it could have been something wonderous.
Instead you get a work of art that assassinates a beautiful wild periphery of concept artists and CGI artists with a crushingly boring plot that insists on tearing down what drew people into the story in the first place, a raw expansive visual creativity that pre-existed before the imposed, lame hero’s journey…
Humm well now I feel like I’m missing out a bit and should probably watch it for the eye candy at least and put the story and main characters in the back of my mind. I would watch something like that, like Planet Earth with Attenborough except on an alien planet, it would be fun.
Yeah I would love a version of Discovery Channel’s Alien Planet but with much better science writing and that focused on explaining interesting reoccurring patterns in ecosystems in evolution on earth through the lens of a fictionalized yet scientifically sound vision of a somewhat plausible alien ecosystems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Planet
I even loved the idea of the cute robot that serves as a sort of simple plot about what happens to it as it explores. Does it avoid danger or get ensared in it?
The plot would not be the focus though, I am thinking Tarkovsky’s Stalker levels of visual and elemental expansiveness but in a genuinely entirely scifi context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
Something like Scavenger’s Reign but less obsessed with human violence and more just focused on the experience of a vibrantly portrayed alien ecosystem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavengers_Reign
I guess I want a sciencey Over The Garden Wall but without any easy plot explainer at the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_The_Garden_Wall
Like Mad Max: Fury Road but with cool animals instead of cool post apocalyptic cars and motorcyles… ok maybe I am stretching the metaphor too far here.