Ed, I have to say I liked avatar better than the lotr movies. That may partially be because I'm a big lotr fan and felt the movies didn't do the book justice, but I think avatar is a must see. I just saw it Christmas morning and found it visually spectacular, although I found your description of the storyline to be right on and was dissappointed they didn't want to be more original. It was kind of like American Indians (mixed with a little african) painted blue. Still a very good movie - I'd reccomend it to anyone, and it will be winning awards.
DC Sent from my iPhone On Dec 24, 2009, at 8:49 AM, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob, > > At the risk of exposing how nerdy I might be, I have between 2500 > and 3000 science fiction and fantasy books in my collection. Of > these there are hundreds that have excellent story lines that could > be drawn from to make better movies. Instead directors choose to > produce their own pabulum of derivative drivel ignoring the body of > work that made the genre popular in the first place. It is a > fiction about the ideas that must be richly developed and internally > consistent. Ego over quality. Instead they either blow up an > enormous amount of stuff or give us soap opera crap with just a hint > of futuristic background and call it al science fiction. When they > do make a movie based upon a classic science fiction novel, they > typically mutilate it beyond recognition and somehow think they are > improving it. It can be done well. The Lord of the Rings, while > not perfect was excellent. The movie 2010 was good. Others > recommended include Blade Runner, Silent Running, A boy ad his Dog > to name a few. > > Here are some screen grabs from Avatar: > <avatar01a.JPG> > > <avatar02a.JPG> > > <avatar04a.JPG> > > <avatar05a.JPG> > > <avatar06a.JPG> > > > Edward Frank > > "Beauty is a summation of the parts working together in such a way > that nothing is needed to be added, taken away or altered." Elio > Caretti > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
