"Even if you know you will find the themes offensive -- which I knew, and which I did -- it is worth seeing. It is that amazing"
Agreed, wholeheartedly agreed. Actually, the original script written was, once I had read it, a much better movie. I found myself wishing that they had done the original rather than the dumbed-down propaganda version.
I just hope they take this mind-boggling, amazing, standard-changing technology and apply it to vastly more deserving stories in the future.
This is a beautiful review. You said all the things I am too inarticulate to say. (Although I would add that if we *hadn't* seen it in 3D (IMAX!), I'd have been checking my watch a lot, know what I mean?) The flying scene alone was worth the price of admission and sitting in an uncomfortable chair for three hours (why hello, pinched nerve
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smoking cigarettes 150 years from now Not only that but the humans were living in a closed environment which meant the air had to be recycled and I'm sure cigarette smoke would be a no no.
Especially around computer equipment! I worked in a mainframe shop for years and we couldn't even have open containers in there, let alone smoke around it. Good grief!
I think all projected futures, especially in movies like this one, are really more about the time we live in than the actual future, so I found it neither believable nor unbelievable. Mostly, I was too busy goggling at the screen to think critically at all. *lol*
As someone I know pointed out, they could've jettisoned the entire plot, lost the mercs and the mining corporation and just had Grace exploring Pandora a'la David Attenbrough, and it would have been a far better film for it!
Add in Jake assigned as a grunt for nominal security and his story line, minus the conflict, and with loads more snarking between him and Grace as he tries to get her to listen to what the Na'vi are telling her, and not dismiss it as native fairy-tales,.. and you'd have a winner!
But it's Hollywood, and studio-exec's aren't happy unless something is getting blown up and some white guy is saving the day.
It was the whole "you are a warrior of your own people, and so we will make you one of us and see what happens" that made me burst out laughing the first time in the theatre!
I think your friend was totally on to something there, but... no explosions? Would people even watch something without explosions? ;)
I heard the talk about it for months and just thought "ho hum". Then it premiered and the reviews were good and when I finally saw it I just went "Wow". It's a space western but in a nice way with science fiction world-building on a scale unmatched by any other movie.
There was an episode of "Bones" before the premiere where the characters were camping out to see "Avatar" and I didn't understand the product placement until I saw the movie and there was Fisher, I mean the actor who plays him, Joel Moore, as Norm Spellman
I hear Cameron's planning on a couple of sequels - I wonder what will happen on Pandora. Now that Eywa has Grace stored within her knowledge of humans and science might add more weapons to the arsenal. Not only can the very large creatures defend Pandora but think of the damage microbes might do to invading humans.
The basic question remains - what justifies our invasion of another planet? Might makes right? I did a post on it here
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Agreed, wholeheartedly agreed. Actually, the original script written was, once I had read it, a much better movie. I found myself wishing that they had done the original rather than the dumbed-down propaganda version.
I just hope they take this mind-boggling, amazing, standard-changing technology and apply it to vastly more deserving stories in the future.
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Add in Jake assigned as a grunt for nominal security and his story line, minus the conflict, and with loads more snarking between him and Grace as he tries to get her to listen to what the Na'vi are telling her, and not dismiss it as native fairy-tales,.. and you'd have a winner!
But it's Hollywood, and studio-exec's aren't happy unless something is getting blown up and some white guy is saving the day.
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I think your friend was totally on to something there, but... no explosions? Would people even watch something without explosions? ;)
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There was an episode of "Bones" before the premiere where the characters were camping out to see "Avatar" and I didn't understand the product placement until I saw the movie and there was Fisher, I mean the actor who plays him, Joel Moore, as Norm Spellman
I hear Cameron's planning on a couple of sequels - I wonder what will happen on Pandora. Now that Eywa has Grace stored within her knowledge of humans and science might add more weapons to the arsenal. Not only can the very large creatures defend Pandora but think of the damage microbes might do to invading humans.
The basic question remains - what justifies our invasion of another planet? Might makes right? I did a post on it here
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