I watched the new Avatar in 3D with the glasses and I was also the only one in a theater and I ordered a gigantic extreme chocolate milkshake that cost me $15 (more than the movie ticket!) and which I later saw, when walking past the concession line, that it had like 1360 calories in it. Hit the treadmill!!!!
There is admittedly some impressive 3D in there, the new movie's budget, once marketing is factored in, is anywhere from $250 million to $460 million (!) but many of the visuals are either a)recycled from the original film or b)come across like the world's most expensive National Geographic swim-with-animals-underwater special. I guess you get a decent battle scene at the end, but there's still no great characters or dialogue (there's no embarrassing dialogue this time either, but still), the plot is no patch on the original film's, and there's a big sobby death scene at the end that had little to no emotional impact, in part because one character began laughably screaming like an animal.
So in spite of the possibility that, for all I know, this film had more work put into than perhaps any other film ever made, I'll probably never watch it again.
Screamers? The film from 1996 whose makers tried to sue the makers of Scream over a similar title? Ebert called that "one of the most depressing films ever made" or something like that. Unless you're talking about something else.
Don't watch St. Elmo's Fire, the 80s feel of that is the only interesting thing about it at all.
NP: Terry Riley, A Rainbow In Curved Air
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