I wasn’t all that fond of Avatar. It was without a doubt the most visually impressive thing I’ve ever seen in a cinema, but I wouldn’t want to sit through it again.
Anyway, Jason has evidently been to see it over the last few days. For the most part we have the same opinion of it. However there is one exception. And since Jason hasn’t implemented any sort of commenting feature to his site yet, I’ll have a little rant about it here.
I have various other niggling complaints about the film overall, but we can now come to my biggest one. Unobtainium. Really? Fucking seriously? Unobtainium? Creative genius at work
Yes. Unobtainium. It’s a joke. Not a very funny one, but a joke nonetheless. I thought it was fairly obvious, but I have had to explain it to a few people since seeing the film. Perhaps I just read too much science-fiction? It doesn’t matter what the company was mining for. It could just have easily been gold or oil without affecting the plot in any major way.
Actually calling the substance “Unobtainium” might not seem very creative, but the film has far bigger problems than that. For example, I got the impression that the big floating mountains contained quite a lot of this Unobtainium stuff. Why not just mine them rather than fighting the big blue aliens?
