Fri, January 1, 2010
Without question, the greatest of the film's many innovations was giving Jim Cameron a motion-capture virtual camera to capture the action as though he were on a real set. Otherwise, aside from being the consummate Sigourney Weaver role, it's a lot like Titanic: technically dazzling and visually engrossing, but with a story a little too sappy and a good/evil struggle too cartoony to get all that worked up about.
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Mark — Sat, 1/2/10 1:37am
Lately I've been meeting people who, for some reason, seem to think that the story is deep and meaningful. I'm pretty sure I could have plotted the whole thing out from the previews. Still, very pretty and fun.
Bee Boy — Sat, 1/2/10 9:36am
Yeah, hard to be surprised by much once you've seen the setup and the bad guy. I'm not in the camp that believes predictable is always awful, but I think once you've built a world as thoughtfully detailed and fully realized as this, there are definitely opportunities to do a lot more with it. The story was certainly fine, but to me it was no more deep and meaningful than An Inconvenient Truth. If this is what it takes for people to notice, though, I'm all for it…