Sunday, December 27, 2009

Avatar Review - Greg Egan

"Yesterday, I escaped from the summer heat into an airconditioned warren in a nearby suburb, its carpeted passages lined with chambers in which people clutched totemically decorated buckets of Coke and tried to link their senses to those of exotic alter egos with the aid of pairs of black-rimmed glasses. My aim was to find out what counts as a quintessential science-fiction blockbuster at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The answer turned out to be an eye-popping exercise in photorealist animation that brings to life a whimsical fantasy world, in the service of a very uninspiring fairy tale."


3.5 out of 5

http://www.gregegan.net/ESSAYS/AVATAR/Avatar.html

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