Avatar was without a doubt the big event of late 2009. If you haven't seen it already it's clearly because you never meant to.
It made sure that James Cameron can now say he directed the two highest grossing films ever (This and "Titanic"), it made half the world sit wearing some glasses that they would have laughed at on the street, and just last night it won the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Much to the dismay of everyone who cared). Though I have to admit that to win a few verbal discussion concerning its quality, I have referred to it as "Pocahontas in Space". Which is, in my defense, not excatly untrue, and not necessarily a bad thing. Of all the things an animated movie can be compared to, a Disney feature isn't excatly the worst.
However, the other day I stumbled across a news article that perhaps for the first time almost made me smack my forehead with the words "what a bunch of [censored for your convenience]".
It seems that there is appearently a entire thread on the official Avatar Forum (Don't be surprised that there is such a forum) dedicated to people suffering depression due to withdrawal from the enchanting world of Pandora (In case you weren't paying attention while watching - that's the planet the movie is set on). Apperantly some of the users of the forum have even had bordeline suicidal thoughts.
Now, just to be clear: I do not consider "Avatar" to be a bad movie. I find it to be a okay movie that enjoys great succes for being peerless in its visuals. I was however no more convinced that Pandora (or anything else in the movie) was real than I was when I watched "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" back in 2001.
Sure the facial expressions and such had an astounding degree of detail about them. Though it baffles me why James Cameron devoloped this technology and then chose a lead actor whos facial expression range appears somewhat limited. To me the two great CGI Characters of the 2000's will always be Gollum of "Lord of the Rings", and to a lesser degree Davy Jones of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Gollum was a far more engaging character than any in "Avatar" - and he barely even resembled a human.
However, back to the visual backdrop (as opposed to the characters) of Pandora. It is my sincere hope that this is some sort of elaborate joke. Or, if not, then at least a state of depression that is to be taken no more seriously than this horde of online attention whores who use self-descriptions such as "emo".
If neither of these two are the case, then this is merely a sad example of an obscene luxury problem. And just proves that in a world were panels exits with the purpose of helping parental guidance concerning movies, there are still people who should just never be allowed in a movie theater. And these are part of that mass.
I'm as much a supporter of the instituion of physical movie theatres as the next guy. But these people need to be given an old CRT (preferably black and white or with some other deficiency) to watch their movies on. That way all future depressions can be preemptively prevented, because conceivably "Avatar" won't be the worlds most beautiful movie forever.
Source: Politiken.dk, picture: Associated Press.
This probably constitutes my first official antagonist post. Please tell me your thoughts on the subject.
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