O'Riordan challenges Padulo's take on Avatar and Oscars
Conor O'Riordan '13
Issue date: 3/10/10 Section: News
After reading Dominic Padulo's article slandering the sci-fi epic Avatar almost three weeks back, I felt slightly angered at the lack of legitimacy for this brutal bashing, however I didn't dwell. Recently, Padulo spoke of the Academy Award nominees for the what-were-then upcoming Oscar show March 7, 2010. It was at this point I found his inordinate amount of disdain for Avatar to be completely inappropriate and unsupported.
Though I hadn't heard much about James Cameron's must-see flick back in December, I did see it opening night in Digital 3-D format. Though I was quite impressed, I did not completely love Avatar until watching it a second time, when I was blown away by the attention to detail and overall scope of the film. Although Cameron produced a film with an arguably one-dimensional, colorless script, he delivered a supremely enjoyable entertainment experience. For Padulo to cast Avatar as a "slander against the art form [film]" simply on the basis of slightly sub-par acting and less-than original story is completely irrational and obviously biased.
With no examples of poor acting or how the story was unoriginal, Padulo is giving us a review that is justifying his personal dislike for the film. Another thing to consider is that even though the story is unoriginal, it does not take away from the film's effect. A movie so visually loaded could become too busy with the addition of a complex storyline, and audiences would be immersed in something they could not fully understand.
Some reasonable problems with the film would be extremely unsubtle imperialism issues and the depiction of high-ranking military officials as inhumane aggressors with no conscious - however Padulo gives us "clumsily heavy-handed script and unbelievably poor performances." Nowhere does he tell us specifically where the script is lacking and which acting performances were so bad they detracted from the film itself - I say this again only to reiterate the fact Padulo's review was full of biased contempt. At the very least tell us that the film reminds us of Dances with Wolves or that the movie suffers from Sam Worthington's bland Jake Sully.
Though I hadn't heard much about James Cameron's must-see flick back in December, I did see it opening night in Digital 3-D format. Though I was quite impressed, I did not completely love Avatar until watching it a second time, when I was blown away by the attention to detail and overall scope of the film. Although Cameron produced a film with an arguably one-dimensional, colorless script, he delivered a supremely enjoyable entertainment experience. For Padulo to cast Avatar as a "slander against the art form [film]" simply on the basis of slightly sub-par acting and less-than original story is completely irrational and obviously biased.
With no examples of poor acting or how the story was unoriginal, Padulo is giving us a review that is justifying his personal dislike for the film. Another thing to consider is that even though the story is unoriginal, it does not take away from the film's effect. A movie so visually loaded could become too busy with the addition of a complex storyline, and audiences would be immersed in something they could not fully understand.
Some reasonable problems with the film would be extremely unsubtle imperialism issues and the depiction of high-ranking military officials as inhumane aggressors with no conscious - however Padulo gives us "clumsily heavy-handed script and unbelievably poor performances." Nowhere does he tell us specifically where the script is lacking and which acting performances were so bad they detracted from the film itself - I say this again only to reiterate the fact Padulo's review was full of biased contempt. At the very least tell us that the film reminds us of Dances with Wolves or that the movie suffers from Sam Worthington's bland Jake Sully.
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Gibsonfirebird12
Tim Gwynne
posted 3/11/10 @ 10:37 AM EST
Agreed. This story line has been seen before, but who cares? It's a great movie and whole brand new application of the story with amazing visuals. This was straight up my favorite movie of 2009, maybe even one of my top favorites of all time. (Continued…)
Crash Everett
Crash Everett
posted 3/14/10 @ 4:35 PM EST
"...I say this again only to reiterate the fact Padulo's review was full of biased contempt."
Well, for someone to review something, it kind of has to have bias. (Continued…)
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posted 3/24/10 @ 5:28 AM EST
A 23-YEAR old MBA student of Noida is another victim of MMS sex video scandal. Natural hairy nude girls were filmed by her boyfriend when she was stripping off his clothes on music with her naked girls friends. (Continued…)
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