Most Avatar critics went to see it with completely wrong expectations or are judging it like it's trying to be Schindler's List or something!
How do you know that?
Most of us went to see it with expectations of seeing another James Cameron film. What else would we expect?
I say that based on what I have read on the internet and what I have heard in real life. I don't claim it to be true for every person, but of those I have experienced, the majority fall into one of those groups of either wrong expectations or unfairly judging.
I think James Cameron shot himself in the foot by hyping it up so much, so that for these people it was ultimately a disappointment.
I don't think he shot himself in the foot at all. For every critic who felt it was overhyped, there are probably 10 people who were hooked in by the hype and ended up loving it.
By these people I meant the critics who felt it was overhyped. For them, it only made the film more of a let down.
Most Avatar critics went to see it with completely wrong expectations or are judging it like it's trying to be Schindler's List or something! If they had went in with an open mind and judged it for what it is, they probably would have enjoyed it more.
Well for 'what it is' it's a glorified tech demo with a paper thin plot and a really cliche message that's been told and retold many times over. I don't think anyone expected Schindler's List and while I can't speak for everyone but I'm getting to a point where if I can predict a large amount of a movie up to an hour before something happens it seriously hinders my enjoyment.
I didn't say anyone expected it to be SL. But comparisons of that nature are being made by so called "critics" like it's proof of something. As for your predictions, I think ariich put it perfectly:
Oh by the way, the whole "I knew exactly what was going to happen" thing is BS. For example, whether a couple of the main characters lived or died at the end could easily have gone one way or the other. Either way has been done plenty of times before, so whichever they had gone for, cynics will say "I KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN LOL".
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