Wow I dont know what is scarier the fact that you have a film teacher telling you what a masterpiece Avatar is or the fact that she was praising the costume design for Batman Forever.
I am really with you on this Avatar thing, like I get that it might be a visually stunning masterpiece and quite the 3d experience it still doesnt change the fact that the plot looks stupid. I have to say I have still been scratching my head cause this movie looked like it was going to fail hard when I saw the trailers and all I hear is how good it is and I can only think "REALLY?" At this point I am trying to ignore it because the fact is I haven't seen the movie and have no intention of seeing it so I cant really say its a bad movie but I really doubt it would be the second coming of film.
The more I hear about other people's film class experiences, the luckier I feel to have found a film prof who'd not only very intelligent, but not pretentious about her opinions. She liked Avatar, and thought it was a very innovative film and well-directed, but doesn't hesitate to admit that the plot was nothing groundbreaking at all. In fact that's something I love about her-- she understands the difference between a favorite movie and a "good" movie, and that there are usually good things to be found in any film, as well as problematic or cliche things as well. She totally understands guilty pleasures, and really and truly gets that people's tastes are different and that art is a subjective topic. I've never met anyone who is so open to new ideas and opinions and who will try to understand someone else's viewpoint, even if she doesn't agree with it. I've found this utterly invaluable in terms of learning how to view film. I very often forget how spoiled I am in this respect. Good luck, man. Film people aren't all stuck up
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I think that I just have bad luck when it comes to people involved in the fields of study relating to the arts. Like the reason I will never do anything close to theater studies is because I had this class back in 2004 where the first week, we all had to lie down on the stage's floor in a row and the person on the end would roll over everyone else.
It has been 6 years and I STILL have not figured out the point of it outside of maybe some misguided attempt to break the ice and get used to awkward situations. And let me tell you, nothing breaks the ice in such an awkward fashion like elbows going into places that elbows should not really go into unless you are in danger. And there was some very large people that did not help matters.
Then there was more exercises where I proceeded to find and use loopholes that didn't go so well and by the time I noticed I was failing the class, I just dropped it and never looked back. And that's how my crazy dreamed of being an actor ended.
Looking back, if I didn't need the course credit or didn't want to waste the money spent getting in, I would have said "Oh yeah, it was a great film. I bet it had the greatest actors ever...OH WAIT! IT DIDN'T WIN A DAMN ACTING AWARD AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES!"
Though I'm sure the fact that it won Best Movie would have crippled my retort. But I have heard about the Pocahontas comparison, though more news articles compare it to Dances with Wolves than anything.
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I am really with you on this Avatar thing, like I get that it might be a visually stunning masterpiece and quite the 3d experience it still doesnt change the fact that the plot looks stupid. I have to say I have still been scratching my head cause this movie looked like it was going to fail hard when I saw the trailers and all I hear is how good it is and I can only think "REALLY?" At this point I am trying to ignore it because the fact is I haven't seen the movie and have no intention of seeing it so I cant really say its a bad movie but I really doubt it would be the second coming of film.
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The only way it could be worse if they took it a step up and talked about Batman and Robin instead.
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It has been 6 years and I STILL have not figured out the point of it outside of maybe some misguided attempt to break the ice and get used to awkward situations. And let me tell you, nothing breaks the ice in such an awkward fashion like elbows going into places that elbows should not really go into unless you are in danger. And there was some very large people that did not help matters.
Then there was more exercises where I proceeded to find and use loopholes that didn't go so well and by the time I noticed I was failing the class, I just dropped it and never looked back. And that's how my crazy dreamed of being an actor ended.
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I'm still getting shit for not seeing it yet, if EVER now.
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Though I'm sure the fact that it won Best Movie would have crippled my retort. But I have heard about the Pocahontas comparison, though more news articles compare it to Dances with Wolves than anything.
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Also, I heard of the Dali-eye cutting movie. Holy crap.
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