So I saw Avatar in IMAX 3D a few days ago. Will definitely say, I was impressed. They did a spectacular job with the graphics and drawing you in to the world that they were trying to create. Sure the story was a bit cliche (I’m sure you’ve heard a bunch of Pocahontas/Dancing with Wolves/Starship Troopers jokes by now) but I was entertained by it.
And then last night I saw Fantastic Mr. Fox (At the dollar theater in town. Shows movies that came out a while ago at about $2).
Definitely not as high tech as Avatar. It was stop-motion instead of ridiculously realistic computer graphics.
Which did I like better? It wasn’t even close.
While Avatar will go on to make billions of dollars, Fantastic Mr. Fox will stand out to me as a film that tried to be different and clever. Sure, Avatar was different, but only in that it looked like everything else. It was almost like it blended in with real life too well. Sure the graphics were pretty, but in the end it was just the covering. A truly memorable movie to me is memorable because of the content. I have to say that Fantastic Mr. Fox was one of the cleverest movies I’ve seen in a while.
So while the billions of dollars may be stacked against me, I’m happy being part of the minority who enjoyed clever and slightly different more than bombastic and grandiose.
After all, I like indy music much better than top 40.
Saw Fantastic Mr. Fox and LOVED it. I will never see Avatar and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.
It was worth seeing because it was visually pretty cool, but not something I feel enriched my life in any way