How do I make a film review sound less like a film analysis? – Avatar Review (Part 2 of 2)
Here is the Question: How do I make a film review sound less like a film analysis?
For my English coursework, I have to write a film review on any film of my choice.
I have written it, but it does not sound like a film review at all.
What are some characteristics that a film review has?
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Paaaaart Two of my Avatar review! I didn’t hate this movie. I just didn’t really like it a lot. I think James Cameron is a great filmmaker and I’ve liked a lot of his movies, but this one was just a little too simplistic plot wise. It worked with Titanic for some reason, but this one not so much? Good times though…
this should really help, it has the steps you need to do to write a good review, including the most important … giving your opinion:
http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/a2206-how-to-write-a-movie-review.html
A film review can contain an analysis. I would say that most do. Try and give a brief plot outline without including spoilers. You can add your opinion in a review whereas an analysis would be void of opinion. So wherever you have made analytical points throw in your opinion as well. Also reviews tend to compare what they are reviewing to other subjects, usually what they are similar to. Movies reviews often refer to other movies to convey certain similarities. A good place to check for references to other movies is IMDB.com. Find your movie and read the user comments that discuss the movie. They almost always reference other movies as comparison as well as usually giving well founded opinions.
@sdmitch16 People animate shorts(aniBOOM) with reused plots and jokes when they should be doing beautiful stuff like Ferngully and Avatar. aniBoom
@totoro1591 There’s no glowing lights of impossible colors.
Isn’t it amazing how Mr. Plinkett, for all his randomness and gibberish, is actually a really in-depth critic, and his analyses are actually spot on? I agree with everything he said.
@floriszaire145 I have to agree with your assessment of the message. Also, I think it promotes a feeling of hatred towards being human. <3
@80sholic that is a good point, it’s a business and he has to make money off it. The thing is people need to be aware to the methods used against them in these movies. It’s very likely that not many people would like it as much if the aliens were hideous monsters.
Considering the movie’s use of obvious names, perform a V’ger treatment for the tree spirit Ewya. Ewya=Ya(h)we(h). I know James Cameron did that purpose, he all but flashed a neon sign to get people to figure it out. And the ending, where Ewya intervenes and saves the day, that is the biggest and literal deux ex machina I’ve probably ever seen. I’m surprised not a lot of people talk about that.
“come on kids! take a shot, show them what we really got!”
“we can do anything by working with each other”
“LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA”
LMFAO
Funny thing is that even though the District 9 aliens were truly alien in their appearance they still seemed more human and their struggle more engaging than the Naïve who were just too pretty and perfect too be believable.
Pandora and the Na’vi society don’t even seem to share a symbiotic relationship, rather the Na’vi just seem to be exploiting their environment like any other ressource. Take the pterodactyls for example. That isn’t a bond they share, it’s the Na’vi subjugating them.
While you have some fun insights, at the same time regarding Cameron’s attempts to make the Na’Vi more appealing to audiences and taking elements of his previous films and using a story derivative of others as well….Well, in a word: Duh. Cameron’s admitted all this himself. He’s undoubtedly a gifted filmmaker, but he’s also a clever business man. He knows what he’s doing, and he’s not hiding it either. I think people on either side of the fence are taking this film a bit too seriously.
@MsKungfuhamster I actually hope that’s what happens because Cameron is too talented for a simple movie like this and I don’t want to write him off as another “George Lucas”. But I doubt it will get much better unless Jake and Neytiri are dramatically fleshed out as actual characters and I don’t see that happening. Besides, Cameron hinted that the next location explored in Pandora is the ocean. *Eyeroll* Maybe this time it will actually be Titanic in Space.
Yeah, Cameron played it safe with this movie (plot-wise), but I think it has some potential to expand and get more interesting in the sequels
1:20 LMAO great juxtaposition, pure art
if james cameron truely wanted to amaze me with creativity, he would not of had the na’vi a complete charichature of africans and native americans, dressing similar and talking the same way. hell even the languge sounded native american. he would have created an entirely ALIEN culture to us, since…you know….there on an ALIEN planet, not in the congo or american midwest back in colonial times
Avatar 2: NA’Vi vs Predator. Hell, throw Robocop in there for good measure. Then at the end someone’s chest can burst open with an Alien baby, setting the stage for Avatar 3.
@StarWarsMovies100th Cameron wrote the treatment for this movie over a decade ago and it seems like he just dusted it from his cabinet when he needed to make a new movie. Like Plinkett said, I doubt Cameron had in mind to make a revolutionary science-fiction movie story-wise. It was meant to be visually jawdropping to serve as an ego-tainted, preachy message about how white men are terrible and we must conserve the environment. Again, Ferngully did this better and it was more entertaining.
I’d watch Avatar if some Predators came down or maybe if the planet is seeded with Alien eggs with a bunch of facehuggers crawling all over the jungle.
@nord1989 Try listening next time. He said primative cultures can be “just as fucking brutal to each other as we can.”
We now have Pizza rolls in Finland too! I’m guessing it’s a new thing here since I haven’t seen them here before. Considering we don’t have Burger king or KFC either…
I believe individuality is still tolerated online . . . for the most part.
But if you’re gonna post on a thread about how ‘Avatar SUX’ . . . or ‘Jay Leno is GOD’ . . . then you’d do well to back up such statements w/ some sort of thoughtful reasoning.
@889654 I believe individuality is still tolerated online . . . for the most part.
But if you’re gonna post on a thread about how ‘Avatar SUX’ . . . or ‘Jay Leno is GOD’ . . . then you’d do well to back up such statements w/ some sort of thoughtful reasoning.
The simple fact of the matter is, Avatar was a ho hum film used as vehicle for 3D technology. There wasn’t anything particularly wrong with it, but nor was there anything particularly noteworthy either.
The problem lies in the plaudits (and ticket sales) the movie got – it reflects poorly on the lowbrow movie-goer that a movie such as this can rake in so much.
Avatar is about seducing a blue hard bodied wild teen virgin Anime cat-girl.
@fecxor “Let’s wipe out this civilization so I can get back to base…and eat raw meat!”
“Oh, I get it… He’s a bad guy, isn’t he?” LOL
No joke people. I’ve been watching this review a bit, particularly the part with the Garbage Pail Kids. I was in my kitchen having a piece of cheese. I felt like I was going to puke on my cheese! Curse that film!