the extreme narcissist

So I know I've been on a hiatus for the past 2 months or so. I've had time to update my blog but I've been too damn lazy to do it. So I caught two movies since SPM ended. The latter being Avatar, James Cameron's new flick. For all you idiots (Yes, I'm being harsh because if you don't know the director of the Titanic, please go back to that rock you've been living under for the past decade) who don't know, James Cameron directed the movie Titanic, the highest grossing movie of all time. Basically, it's too easy for him to eat guys like Steven Spielberg & George Lucas for breakfast, so he munches on them in his sleep. Apparently, Avatar was a project that he had in mind for almost a decade, but couldn't turn the dream into reality because the tech back then couldn't suffice to his needs. Bla Bla Bla, excuses. Anyway, I went into the cinema with high expectations once again. prepared for an emotional ride on a roller coaster but, in the end , all I got was an emotional ride on a merry-go-round. Avatar wasn't bad, no, far from it. It just wasn't good. First off, it's mighty difficult to relate to the characters in the story at all. In 2012 (I'll write a review about it soon), you could relate to the world ending. Like, millions of questions would run through your mind, "What would I do if the world was ending? ", and such. But in Avatar, that didn't happen at all, well, a question DID pop into my mind, just one, "What would I look like if i was blue?". The movie just seemed too farfetched to make any sense, making me lose interest in the movie. But that wasn't the biggest complaint I had with the movie, no by a long shot. If being too farfetched was like a fly in my soup, then my next complaint was like a, erm, LARGE fly in my soup (I would have said centipede, but then again, I didn't want to ruin anyone's appetite). Avatar is just too damn predictable. A 5 year old could have guessed what happens next. Like, guess what happens . Yup, that's right. Guess again. Yup, that's right too. Give yourself a pat on the back. (Me, sarcastic? Noooooooooooooooooooooo). I correctly predicted everything that would happen in the movie, right down to the exact ending. (Perhaps I'm psychic. Hmmm, lucky numbers tomorrow are 1,2,3 and 4). Avatar did do some things which I applaud. The creatures in Pandora (Blue alien's world) did stimulate my imagination, and I'm not the imaginative type, nuff said. I also liked Colonel Miles Quaritch. The main baddie (antagonist for you smart arses) in the movie seemed like your cliche bad ass tough guy. But then again, it's cliche to say cliche. Anyway, he captured my attention , sue me. Too bad he wasn't 100 years younger, he would have given Taylor Lautner a run for his money. I was going to give the film a 5, but seeing as James Cameron, who directed Aliens and Terminator 2, two of my all time favorite movies directed this one, I'd give it a 6. But wait, the film a a budget of USD 300 million. Recession, what recession? Back to 5 you go.