Watching Avatar

[MikeH]

The Star Wars prequels are amusing for how bad they were.

No they weren't.

[Dinner]

They were pretty ****ing bad.

[ColdWizard]

They were pretty ****ing bad.

I don't think anyone disputes that.

[The Mad Monk]

I think Lucas does; he keeps throwing "entertainment" based on them at us.

[ColdWizard]

I was talking about sane people.

[Elok]

Well, let's compare:

Plot
Star Wars Prequels: Idiotic
Avatar: Idiotic
Verdict: TIE

Characters
SWP: Cardboard, frequently annoying
AV: Cardboard, generally too boring to be annoying
Verdict: Depends on tastes

Stereotypes
SWP: Degrading ethnic caricatures recycled as aliens
AV: Ridiculous noble-savage Native American caricatures recycled as aliens
Verdict: Depends on tastes

Preachiness
SWP: Minimal
AV: Enormous
Verdict: SWP wins

Eye Candy
SWP: Pretty
AV: Extremely Pretty
Verdict: AV wins

Action Scenes
SWP: Decent, not really breathtaking
AV: Utter crap
Verdict: SWP wins

Pre-Release Hype
SWP: Absolutely mind-boggling
AV: Merely gigantic
Verdict: AV wins

So, assuming you weigh them all evenly (which is, of course, a big assumption), it's a matter of whether you value action scenes and less whining over somewhat reduced overhyping and prettier pictures. And your personal preferences about racism and lame characters, of course.

[Riesstiu IV]

[OzzyKP]

Pre-release hype? I think Avatar gets the nod there. Months before it came out you had people saying it was going to change filmmaking forever and that it wasn't just an amazing movie it was historic. No one said anything remotely like that for the Star Wars movies.

[Kuciwalker]

Ozzy, you clearly live on a different planet.

[Ben Kenobi]

Preachiness
SWP: Minimal
AV: Enormous
Verdict: SWP wins

This.

Plus Episode 3 was actually decent.

Star wars would actually make a decent tetrology. 3-6.

[OzzyKP]

Ozzy, you clearly live on a different planet.

Hey, I'm voting with the majority in the poll. The people have spoken, Avatar sucks more than the prequels. Don't take it out on me.

[Kuciwalker]

Not that. Your idea that Avatar was more hyped than SW Ep 1.

[OzzyKP]

Episode I was incredibly highly anticipated, certainly. But no one suggested it would make history and no one was talking Oscar before it was released. People figured it'd be a good popcorn movie in the mold of the original Star Wars and got a bad popcorn movie.

Avatar was hyped to be nothing we've ever seen before, and historic, etc. Somehow this hype carried it to some truly undeserved Oscar nominations.

[ColdWizard]

I never got dragged to any of the SWP well after release because "Everyone says it's good movie" and then wait three hours for the first available showtime.

[Bosh]

When I watched it all of the subtitles were in Korean only This greatly increased my cinematic experience since I could get the jist of what people were saying but I didn't have to wallow in the idiocy of the script.

Fun movie if they just stopped talking, worth watching in a theater since the eye-candy is well done and looks a lot more real than most CGI-fests. But not one single memorable line in the entire movie.