Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The rare sequel that's better than the original. And while the visual effects in AVATAR still hold up, these are on another level. Oh, did I mention Cameron knows how to direct an action sequence?
The visuals are gorgeous, and James Cameron knows how to direct action scenes, but the dialog is only a couple steps above the George Lucas school of writing, and not subtle in its pro-environmental anti-military anti-corporatization stance. It also has a bit of a white savior complex happening. James Cameron, I see you.
I was going to give this a better rating -- even though there are better adaptations of A Christmas Carol -- but then they just kept singing.
While there's only so much of a 2 1/2 hour opera you can cram in a 45-minute children's program, there's enough here that charmed me, including reworked lyrics to some of the arias from the opera and a plot that takes out the Masonic references but still contains a trial for Tamino. A good introduction to Mozart.