It's not exactly a difficult thing, being better than Avatar - what I class as the most overrated film in history.
For a later post
"Cameron wrote the script and had been working on it since 1994"
You know this isn't something to go in the films favor? Avatar had an utterly terrible screenplay. The story was a complete rip-off of Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas and more.
You could say that Last Samurai came after the initial writing of the screenplay but Cameron had many many years to even make slight changes to improve the film, not having it be incredibly mediocre with, admittedly, brilliant special effects.
I will concede that avatar is changing the way people see movies.
Normal viewers can now see how brilliant effects can be and that 3D can actually be good.
Critics and more, I hesitate to say the word educated but can't think of another word, viewers can now see that films can get away with a mediocre at best script as long as they put a lot of shiny stuff to placate the magpies that are the normal viewers. Avatar isn't changing cinema for the better, and honestly I think people will have forgot about it within the next few years or recognize it for what it is.
Which is fine If you're into that sort of thing I suppose, but you yourself have said you find Avatar bland so I guess you notice that.
The OP went over the top though. The acting was pretty shoddy for the most part in this film. Granted, I didn't expect Spacey or Pacino-esque performances but I couldn't stand such as the Governor. Mala Ghedia who played Naina was bland also. Hell - the only two performances I could say I actually liked were Robert Lyons and Erik Hanson, and Erik Hanson mainly because when I squinted a bit I could use my imagination and channel a bit of Kristofferson into the role (though in all fairness Hanson wasn't bad)
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