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Originally Posted by Bucho
Being able to recognise the beats and archetypes employed in Avatar as being practically the same as those other movies doesn't mean Avatar was a story well told. Being able to tell a story well, in any medium, is much different from just knowing a good story. A story is just what happens. It's the telling that brings that story to life and lets us feel something.
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You misread me.
I said the story was "well told". In the same way a comfortable saddle might be 'well ridden'. As in, 'its been told a lot'. I'm definitely not saying, 'its great story-telling'. (Great story-telling doesn't require repeated, overly-blatant foreshadowing.)
I'd like to think that
better dylan simply overstated his subject line when saying "what makes me hate the movie avatar" -- to hinge your whole opinion of a movie on this single innocuous detail is silly. As though, if it weren't for the lack of description, he would have LUVED it. (And, as you mention, its clearly not a 'plot hole', although BrownEyedBtch continues to call it one.)