A New Hope?

While bad movies keep pouring like rain on our heads and pockets, there is one man who has been sitting at home for 12 years and developing his new project. This man needs no introduction, for he made the highest grossing movie of all time and can forever rest on his laurels. But he didn't. Purely out of his imagination he created a movie that will go down in history as the movie that started a new era in cinema. Like the transition from silent film to sound and from black&white to color, so is shooting movies in 3-D becoming the new thing in James Cameron's Avatar. Maybe one day a movie about this new transition will be made, Singing In The Rain style.
While not so strong in the script area, Avatar features some political/territorial exclamations and most importantly, a whole new world created entirely by Cameron and a whole new viewing experience in 3-D. Something like 90 percent of the movie is made with visual effects, but looks absolutely real as if a real camera is pointing back and forth between the characters and the mind-blowing views of the planet's nature. Just like with Terminator many years ago, Cameron is ahead of his time and pushing it forward.

So it happened that I had the misfortune of seeing Roland Emmerich's 2012 shortly after Avatar, and the difference between the two is as bold as a casino sign in Las Vegas. While James Cameron is creating new things, Emmerich has built his career on destruction of the world. At first it was Independence Day and it was good, but then followed The Day After Tomorrow and now 2012 which is an eye-rape of the worst kind. The characters and the actors are extremely easy to unlike and a line should be drawn as to the number of times I can see the national symbols of USA being consistently destroyed. The disaster movie has really become a disaster, a total waste of 200 million dollars, while Avatar is some 300 millions wisely spent.