avatar generated a whole lot of hype this year. several people said "omg, you definitely absolutely gotta see avatar!!" so... i saw avatar. and i was so not impressed. it's basically pocahontas with blue aliens and it was exactly as i thought it would be from the moment i saw the campaign and the trailer. it's all about "look at this expensive cgi! NO REALLY, LOOK AT THE EXPENSIVE CGI!". i mean, as far as the story goes, the whole "we're out to get the aliens" concept looked far better in district 9, the characters were more interesting in district 9 and the lavish cgi looked better in 300 or lord of rings. but this is hollywood and meh.
then i saw little ashes. which is interesting at least as far as the story is concerned. it has garcia lorca, salvador dali (rpattz is playing dali) and bunuel being artsy and rebellious in 1920's - 1930's spain. for that alone it deserves a prize in my mind... i'll take spanish artists over blue aliens or robots any day! because i am that kind of girl. the romance between dali and lorca was nicely acted and the two had a lot of chemistry (now i'm going against all the critics who said "blah blah blah.. wooden acting blah". people, the acting in avatar was petrifying. actually, it was not even existing. yes, i have a problem with that movie). i think that leonardo di caprio would have done a great job at being the demented/vulnerable dali if this movie would have been shot back in the day before titanic. and again, because we live in the age of avatar/transformers/sex and the city 2, spanish artists in the early 20th century are boring by our standards. what i did not like about "little ashes" though, were the black and white sequences which felt completely out of place.
also, i intend to see sherlock holmes soon.