Maybe. I wear glasses but I doubt that is a contributing factor. I just didn’t feel so wowed compared to what most people said about it. I do know it’s a new benchmark that’s been established now for 3D films though which I am glad is being pushed with so much enthusiasm.
I felt that they were trying to do something more with the characters but it sort of tapered off into indescript cliches. Stuff like having Grace be all “rar where’s my ciggy?” but later having no other moment exploring that aspect of her character seemed to create a illusion of depth but eventually into a cliche. The acting was alright but the chemistry between them is not there, at least elevating it beyond cliche.
The thing with Worthington is that he has small eyes compared to Weaver’s large ones, so I guess there is a larger gap of similarity between avatar and user with Worthington than Weaver’s. However once again the similarity are far too similar with her. She looks like she has a smaller nose, rather than the larger one typical of the navi, her face structure looks far less pointed than Worthington’s avatar. Even Norm Spellman’s is different enough to look like Navi.
Grace bitching about teh cigarette reminded me of Mittens from “Bolt” for some reason, when she was shaking down the pigeons in the alley.
And Sulley’s avatar was his DECEASED BROTHER’S, which would explain why it didn’t look like him. He was only able to interface with it because they shared genes.
Avatar didn’t have a complex story by any means and the acting was just OK. This normally would throw up red flags for me, but I loved every damn minute of it. I would easily pay to see it again.
I have been reading through the little survival guide book (which James and Company should expand into a coffee table sized book that covers species in different regions of the planet one day) and right in the beginning you see images of the Earth. It looks like Blade Runner or any other dreadful looking future city, filled to the brim with grime and hopelessness. So the idea of Pandora presenting and opportunity on how to rescue Earth from complete destruction is an interesting one.
I’m walking away from the reading thinking that James can push the issue of Man Vs. Man a bit more. And I do mean going beyond just “Big Corporate Power” Vs. “Underdog Treehuggers.” None of us want to see the world looking like shades of brown and gray but at the same time no one really wants to give up the conveniences of modern technology.
If the next movie focues on how Pandora is effecting Earth and it’s populace we may be in for a more original story.
Story was meh, though. I really hate how the natives were so perfect and awesome and humans were so evil and bad. Also they behaved exactly like people, kinda weird.
I thought the story was alright. It failed in respect to how sci-fi and fantasy genres fail. You can pretty much make up anything in sci-fi and fantasy and you can make it seem like it logically fits in place in the story because anything is possible in those worlds.
So a race that masters interstellar space travel (maybe FTL too) can’t defeat primitive natives? Fine. The whole planet pretty much fought against us 'sapes. So we couldn’t freaking snipe down those natives from space with our superior satelite technology? We can’t send robots to fight in place of us? We can’t nuke them, and if we’re unable to nuke them, then we can’t send missiles to bomb their ass?
If you’re on the fence about seeing this movie, I suggest you see it in a theater, IMAX in particular. The movie is a spectacle visually, and it’s not going to translate as well to your TV unless your TV is like 300".
The plot wasn’t all that inspired, but I dug the movie overall. It was weird how the humans were the bad guys, though. Totally.
We;re already running out places to bury our dead I can’t imagine there’s much space for burying bodies in the distant future. He also could have had it writen in that he wanted to be cremated, or his family decided that or any number of possibilities.
For the haters: I don’t know if it has been posted already, but over at the /Filmcast they had an interesting discussion with the author of an article about race and the movie called When will White People Stop Making Movies like Avatar? I think it was really interesting, even though I don’t necessarily agree with everything the author said.
I think it might have had something to do with the avatar project in that his avatar was based on his DNA… maybe they didnt want his dna getting out? or it could just be that burning in space = the only burial you get
I liked the movie alot, the 3d took a bit of getting used to, Neytiri was the only na’vi who had some real personality (but i guess thats also based on screen time) though her mother was pretty good too, weavers looked exactly like her
It’s basically a love story though… very sappy, the hair things creeped me out, overall it was good though, could deff watch it again
Some girls next to me tried to start cheering and woo’ing at the end of the movie, everyone else was silent, i just kinda looked at them and they giggled and went quiet… srsly, cheering?
it could definitely be interpreted anti-white, because white people who are consumed with white guilt over shit they had nothing to do with want to be liked and accepted by minorities. that’s like a huge white liberal fantasy. so the easiest way they try to do that is hate on white people to try and be the ‘cool’ white person.
then they can truly become part of the minority population! hurray!
disclaimer: i liked this movie alot, although it certainly was fern gully with smurf cats. i don’t mind the predictability of the plot, i didn’t go for anything profound or awesome.
but white people still have issues with the past apparently
I’m listening to this at the moment but wanted to post this
lmao “Pandora looks very much like an untouched version of America”
It’s called a rain forrest
Half way through, guys are starting to talk some sense, it is a guilt trip I didnt see that being black. The movie would have been even better had it be written from more of a Na’vi’s perspective, that way it would not have skimmed their rich culture.
Best comment* “anyone making a movie right now, an action movie must be going OH SHIT!”*
