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Exactly! he said very important point that this film worth watching only for technology alone and nothing else. Remaining meh, hmmm, mmmm, blah, blah......

Have a nice day!

I Am Legend

A decent enough film. The Blu-Ray looks spectacular but, as I suspected, the film's flaws are more exposed in my living room than they were in the cinema. It's a film that is pretty much made by its sound design. I accidentally watched the version with the alternate ending, which was odd.

I think you misunderstood me on this context. I liked Flubber because it was fun to watch and Gone in 60 seconds even though its not great action flick but it has some moments. But the actual point, i have great respect and admiration for my all time favorite filmmaker James Cameron. I expected lot from him. In fact, you should not compare his movies with Flubber and Gone in 60 seconds. His movies always has great standard that others don't have. After Spielberg, he is the director who could please all sort of audience in the world. As far as Avatar concern, he has done revolution in the world of Visual effects. I certainly applaud for that. But what happened to his style of Storytelling? I missed that entirely.

Titanic also had old type of story which i heard and saw many times in Indian movies. But what made me to consider Titanic as all time best movie ( even better than Indian love stories) is brilliant storytelling. As far as plot construction, i didn't find any cliches in Titanic. But in Avatar, i find lot of similarities from earlier movies ( not cameron's), gathering armies, learning lessons, falling in love, fight back, provoking speech etc. I have seen thousands of times. The main difference between ID4 and Avatar is in ID4, human race fight against evil aliens but in Avatar, quite opposite, Aliens fight against evil human race (especially military groups LOL).

Cameron is the director who always comes out with brand new ideas. I didn't expect this kind of boring storyline. I certainly agree that Avatar is far better than Indy 4. Avatar isn't worst movie at all and at the same time, its not great. Film has brilliant visual visual effects but brilliant stops there, where was characterization? Where was the storytelling? deeply missing.

Cameron was very very clever indeed. He made this movie in 3D and intelligently, he released in 2D version also. But if you make analysis, in 2D film isn't doing good business but in 3D doing damn good business everywhere. Just imagine if this movie released in 2D version alone, do you think this movie would have been super hit? i don't think so.

Cameron said that if movie succeeds he would certainly go for trilogy of Avatar, i expect him to come back with great sequel movies like Aliens and T2.

By the way, i didn't dislike the movie Avatar. The movie has good action sequences and excellent visual effects. I would certainly recommend my friends and relatives to watch this movie. This a must watch movie, at least for the sake of James Cameron

And the characters! Don't forget those. Aliens wouldn't be as it is without the Ripley-Newt-Hicks relationship.

SPOILER ALERT Alan. (And I'm not referring to the movie.)

Pardon?!

Good storytelling CAN be simple. Avatar's story may be predictable, but it wasn't exactly a huge surprise that the Titanic sunk or that Arnie won the day in Terminator 2.

Hey, but presentation always matter whether its old or new story. Is it not?

Ah, right! Edited the original post for spoilers. Steven, could you remove reference to the TV show from your post?

It's the most cliche-ridden film ever made. Honestly.

Done!

By the way, you could just use the [spoiler]spoiler tags[/spoiler] rather than delete your original comment.

Testing [spoiler]spoiler tags[/spoiler].

You should've put 'Testing' in the spoiler tags. Thanks so much for spoiling it for me.

They do say that the best place to hide something is out in the open. Only now do I appreciate the significance of this statement!