File puptcrit/puptcrit.1004, message 110


Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:26:34 -0700
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
From: The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] follow up link to kooky


>Actually, it looks better than Avatar, which I finally just saw. I 
>waited till it came to the Byrd Theater ($2.00). Did anybody else see 
>all the connections to films and shows already made? The first being 
>Ferngully. The plot was nearly identical. Then the name of the main 
>character: Jake   ---   Sully, hmmm, let's see, Jake was the hero in 
>Jericho against the bad guys and Sully back in Dr. Quinn, Medicine 
>Woman......who fought with the native americans against the cavalry. 
>Of course, that transference at the end, uh, wasn't it done many times 
>in Star Trek? The characters looked transplanted from Star Wars and
>Harry Potter.....
>It was ok. I just felt it was one gigantic remake with bigger toys.

Agreed, though I too enjoyed it.  Formula, sure.  Even the Grimms' 
tales are full of formula.  The sociopolitical parallels, whether 
they're too programmatic for one's taste, at least give it some 
reason for being, and I confess to being a card-carrying, literal 
tree-hugger.

Whereas Burton's ALICE was like doing a remake of Three Little Pigs 
with a Star Wars plot.  I admired the visuals, then wondered "Why?" 
Alice slays the Jabberwock and claims her full personhood?  Who 
cares?  Why not have the monster swallow her & she discovers her 
long-lost father living in its gizzard: that's worked before and 
could be regarded as an *hommage* to Disney.  Or just marry her idiot 
fiance and then geld him with a Texas chainsaw.  To a totally 
rambling creative mind, the possibilities are infinite and the 
resultant boredom profound.

Just my two cents, claiming my senior discount-
Conrad
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