{"id":1935,"date":"2009-11-26T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2009-11-26T08:11:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:11:46","slug":"damning-with-not-so-faint-damns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/26\/damning-with-not-so-faint-damns\/","title":{"rendered":"Damning with not-so-faint damns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A clearly impartial and unbiased advance review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2009\/nov\/26\/avatar-james-cameron-3d\" target=\"_blank\">James Cameron&#8217;s <em>Avatar<\/em><\/a>, due for release in December:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Budgeted at a reported $237m (\u00a3143m), <em>Avatar <\/em>is Cameron&#8217;s first dramatic feature since the record-breaking <em>Titanic<\/em>, back in 1997. The film is a science-fiction fantasy set on a verdant planet called Pandora and following the adventures of a US Marine played by Sam Worthington. Cameron shot the film on his own patented &#8220;fusion digital 3D camera system&#8221; and experts argue that the results take 3D techniques to a whole new level. [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The reviewer, however, begs to differ, describing the film as &#8220;alienating&#8221; and &#8220;weird&#8221;. Moreover, he\/she argues that its pioneering visual technology is liable to induce nausea in the viewer. &#8220;The problem is with cutting in between 3D focus points and perspective,&#8221; the mystery critic writes. &#8220;The mind cannot adjust to it without a buffer &mdash; thus, <em>Avatar<\/em> is literally vomit inducing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even the review&#8217;s praise comes with a sting in the tail. &#8220;There are some beautiful moments [in the film],&#8221; it concedes. &#8220;But overall it&#8217;s a horrible piece of shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clearly impartial and unbiased advance review of James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar, due for release in December: Budgeted at a reported $237m (\u00a3143m), Avatar is Cameron&#8217;s first dramatic feature since the record-breaking Titanic, back in 1997. The film is a science-fiction fantasy set on a verdant planet called Pandora and following the adventures of a US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[86,122,85],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-criticism","tag-movies","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}