We've been following the discussion surrounding James Cameron's Avatar for a while now, on a personal if not a public level, and in the past few days a surprising trend has taken shape: amazingly, people are reporting that - despite reasonable assumptions otherwise - it's actually pretty good. It's held up with an 84% on rottentomatoes, maintaining its lofty rating well after the oft-skewed early sample-size period has passed. And a couple days ago the people at Defamer went so far as to issue an apology for all the Avatar-bashing they've done over the past few weeks:
Hollywood goes for epic in just about every tentpole it churns out, but somehow the ginormity of a Transformers 2 or a 2012 production, leave them feeling small — with a shrunken spirit and core that quashes their monstrous pretensions. Avatar, while certainly not without flaws, manages to create a sense of true epic scope in which the journey becomes greater than the sum of its effects.
They go on to say that Avatar is not without a certain cheese-factor, but it is overshadowed by the magnificent spectacle of the film. Which defense we can probably get behind. And so we will see it, and approach it with an open mind, as we attempt to do with all things. If nothing else, it will probably be an entertaining diversion, which is something we can all use in times like these.
VALLEY, it seems.
via Defamer, as we said.
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