True, or Cameron could forego the cutesy stuff altogether, but then he'd just be making another Alien movie.
Well, I mean, here's the thing. Has anyone been able to boil down to a sentence or two yet what's wrong with the movie's story? I mean, the flaws are obviously there, but that do they come down to? From what I can tell, the overall problems are:
- Too on the nose with its message
- Nothing that unexpected really happens
- Too many scenes that we knew were coming
- Too many things are too simple
- Dialog is kinda problematic.
- A couple moments that are just unintentionally funny, like the beginnings of Na'vi sex.
But I mean, those five points are still five separate points. What's the single unifying theory of what went wrong with Avatar's story? In my mind, it's the lack of complexity. I don't know about other people, but I would have been willing to sit through a three hour version of Avatar if it was significantly improved. But I don't know if that flies with the general movie-going public.