Just follow up on the last post, as Roger and Lionel discussed in Poliwood, one reason why The Hurt Locker works as a movie better than Avatar, in their opinion, is that the former movie has a soul to it, the latter is simply zillion dollar modern Hollywood product.
Another possible reason is that nobody is comparing The Hurt Locker to Pocahontas:
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(Hat tip to Big Hollywood for the above clip.)
And if you enjoyed the recent seemingly 20-hour YouTube deconstruction of The Phantom Menace, its same maker is back to explain the cast-in-the-mold formulas at work in Avatar:
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