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- First reviewAugust 28, 2010
- Last reviewNovember 20, 2010
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Increasingly disappointing
PostedNovember 20, 2010
StephanieD
from Cocoa Beach, Florida
The entire Potter series has slid slowly down a long slide into an abyss that seems almost built on it's former self. I could use the words "parody of itself" but even that isn't quite right. The characters of Potter and his friends are shadows of their former selves. Hogwart's isn't even seen in the movie at all and Snape is the only teacher left we see. Potter is powerless over what's happening which follows the book but the actors seem disinterested in their parts as detached from wanting to keep doing it or melancholy about the series ending. After all, Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), has been forever type-cast and will probably never appear in another part believably like Leonard Nimoy or Jimmy Doohan from Star Trek, who played their parts so well that no one could ever see them in anything else. Am I sad Harry Potter will end? Yes and no. I'm sorry that the story is over but no, I won't be sorry that this thing has stretched out way farther than it should have and much further than the actors, for their young age, should have been pushed. Years from now we'll hear about how they suffered during the filming of this series of movies as child actors and that's just sad.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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The Poetry & Truth of Avatar
PostedAugust 28, 2010
StephanieD
from Cocoa Beach, Florida
I've seen puerile reviews that amounted to "great" and "fantastic" but that hardly touches the tip of what Jim Cameron has done here. He's created a microcosm of what Americans have done for centuries: Violated the indigenous rights of those who simply got in our way and never stopped to try understand any ways that were different from our own. the extra footage in this movie should never have been removed particularly the part when Sigourney Weaver tries to explain that everything on Pandora is connected...the trees, the people, the animals, and if they bring down Home Tree it will have devastating consequences to the entire planet and everyone in the control room laughs at them and says "It's just a tree!" It made the impact of the destruction of Home Tree even more powerful emotionally for me. We can never thank Jim Cameron enough for this movie but can we truly appreciate this movie enough in our hearts, minds and spirits to stop doing this same thing to our Ewya? Probably not because once most people came out of the theaters they pitched their 3D glasses in the bins, thought about how good the movie was and went on wasting resources in every way they could until our own Ewya is dead.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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