re: Just watched Gravity on HBO

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The interesting thing about this debate is that so many of you hated Avatar for the same failing of Gravity. That is a fact.

Is the plot of Gravity as bad as Avatar? No because there isn't much of a plot. It is basically one long car chase in space.

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Avatar was manipulative bullshite in order to sell as many tickets as possible, start a new industry, and to spread a bullshite ideology. James Cameron is a great film maker, and I know that there wasn't a single line of wasted dialog. It is an incredibly efficient film that knows what it wants, but it's terrible in the end. Yes, it achieves everything it wanted to achieve, but it's terrible manipulative shite it wanted to achieve, so I can't forgive it.

Gravity is pretty straight forward on the other hand: convey the terror of space. It wants to really do nothing more than that, and it completely succeeds, and I love the film for it. Those two films were going for something completely different, and I find it insulting when they're often paired together.