Avatar

It was pretty good, but the campy Titanic music ( it sounded like James Horner within 3 notes) was a bit daunting.

But the action was great.

The entire ‘mother earth’s revenge’ theme was a bit thick for my taste. A good theater movie, doesn’t make my top ten list.

This post contains information that gives away story and plot elements of the film. i.e. Spoilers.

I found it a bit predictable but anytime I give a fist pump when the good guys take it to the bad guys I know I’m enjoying myself. I was certainly drawn in and I like stories where the good guys win.

From the point where you first see the giant hole in the ground and the giant monstrosity of a machine indiscriminately dredging up the planet I knew who the bad guys were. When Ribisi’s character says they don’t know what the natives want, I said out loud, “They want you to stop digging giant holes in their planet.”

I can certainly see where this might seem heavy handed but personally I was ready for this story.

Cameron might not tell the ‘highest brow’ entertainment but he is always entertaining, internally consistent, tells a story with special effects (as opposed to special effects held together with something that resembles a story) and puts all the money on the screen. I have never left one of his pictures going “What did they spend all that money on?”

Say what you will about Titanic but after the collision and up till DiCaprio freezes to death it is darned exciting.

My girlfriend’s concise thought on Avatar was, “This must have been what it was like seeing Star Wars for the first time in 1977.”

This is a special effects movie showcase. Pure and simple.

@Brain:

This is a special effects movie showcase. Pure and simple.

Yes but unlike a couple of other ‘special effects showcases’ I saw this year it had a coherent and internally consistent story.

It did not resort to contrivances or letting action lead the plot around. It didn’t devolve to zingers, slapstick or toilet humor for its ‘character’ moments. I never groaned, “They didn’t just do that?”

I like me some big special effects driven popcorn movies and those movies get a few ‘it’s a movie’ cards to let them hurdle a few things that get in the way of the action and pretty effects.

But that does not grant carte blanche. That does not let filmmakers be lazy. The director and writer do not get to decide how many ‘it’s a movie’ cards they have or when they can play one. They had better assume they have none at all.

Too many times this summer I was expected to go “It’s popcorn fluff” to cover up some form of film-making laziness. Too many times I was taken off the ride going, “huh? Wait, what the…” only to find that I’d been strapped back in and was expected to go “Wheeeee” again and forget the contrivance or inconsistency or laziness that had just been perpetrated.

Avatar never did that.

Avatar had a pretty good story as well, nothing new, but that’s okay.

It was a typical “white man is evil for taking our lands” movie.  Except they made the “white man” more cartoon evil than real evil, and made the indians more noble than what they actualy were.  Turned religion into fact, and the blue people’s philosiphy on “we don’t want what the white man has” was bunk.  If you believe the romanticized idea that an indian would rather take 10x longer chopping a log with a stone axe rather than a metal one you watch way too much TV.

But I agree with it being a good action movie.  Worth the $ just for that.

I have already seen the bootleg version.

It is not in Sweden yet butt I will see it when it comes.

You mean to tell me that the movie is not released worldwide at the same time.

@Brain:

You mean to tell me that the movie is not released worldwide at the same time.

No there is a delay with US movies.

Only with US movies. Do you know why?

@Brain:

Only with US movies. Do you know why?

US and Asia

Not sure. It’s way past midnight here….time for schlafen

Ja

@Sun_Tzu:

@Guerrilla:

What was your opinion of Avatar? I didn’t like it as much to be honest. The technology was cool, yes, but the storyline was botchy to the point that I felt James Cameron didn’t have complete control of this monstrosity (mind you it was a multicolored beauty). The Cinematography was cool and the special effects were good, but the battle scene was what, 15 minutes? I waited 2 Hours for a battle scene that to me wasn’t as “epic” as the rating states it is.

Thoughts?

GG

I think this movie is AWESOME!  :-) Also, I own it…

I see that you are on here to promote your movie. You must have made a lot of dinero on this movie. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXraSkgssFk

Nuff said :P

Me and my friend got into an argument about which was better Star Wars or Avatar? I said Star Wars. Its a classic where Avatar is just Dances with Wolves in the future. Of course my favorite movies are the Lord of the Rings but that deserves another topic.