___AVATAR Review Thread___

Really? You think so?

I appreciate not everybody loves Disney but the point is they are very successful because they make family orientated films which do not necessarily have powerful or clever storylines but nearly always have a moral point to make.

Avatar is well on the way to being the biggest box office success of all time according to the above link so I would suggest that it is very much in the same vein as many of the Disney films I quoted. It too has a moral point to make, which I think is pretty relavent to modern times.

I would imagine that James Cameron would be pretty ecstatic to hear his film being described as being Disney like. Yet people on this thread seem to think they are hurling that description as an insult. Thats the point.

If you dont like the film, just say you didnt like it, or you didnt enjoy it, and say why. Thats plenty.
To try to justify your negative view by describing the film as 'Disney like' .... just makes you look a tad silly IMO.
 
I just saw a brief review on the BBC News Channel with Mark Commode (or whatever his name is) and the CGI looked rubbish. The motion was realistic, but the blue cat-faced creature and the green dragon thing looked like plastic toys.
 
I've just returned from the cinema and that is exactly how I feel about it.

I cant have been the only one as I have never sat in a cinema in perfect silence through a film that is three hours long before. Everyone was absolutely captivated. After a while you scarcely notice the effects, the whole ecosystem seems to capture your imagination entirely. Time just flew by for me.

I thought this was an absolute masterpiece. As someone who has always been a lifelong Star Trek fan, as good as the latest Star Trek movie is, Avatar beats it hanRAB down.
 
No, he didn't.

He got more and more immersed in the culture and beliefs as he spent time with them. He came to see Pandora as they did: the beauty and connected aspects of life and not just as a mine. His video diaries showed that at least three months passed (I didn't notice the date on the first one so I don't know when he arrived on Pandora). Definitely wasn't a case of instantly fall in love and switch sides. I actually think that she was not the main reason that he switched sides.
 
My review/Synopsis.

American solider turned into blue alien and taken to far away planet. Big Tree, great importance. Falls in love with blue alien girl who screams ALOT... but is oddly hot.
 
Is Leona's song 'i see you' actually used physically in the movie? I know in some movies they don't (titanic) but in things like st trinians their theme was used.

Just wondered :)
 
The computer effects were probably the best Hollywood has ever produced in terms of the machines and robots as well as the actual world itself, the smurf lookalikes still didn't look totally convincing though in the way they moved. The human eye is very perceptive over things like this.

The film itself was epic and spectacular, but was more of a spectacle and an event than a fantastic film, I felt a bit sleepy in the middle! (this might have been down to the 3D,as the glasses seem to make the screen a bit darker, and the 3D is hard work on the eyes).

As for the 3D itself, its still evolving technology and I think it works far better on animations rather than real lift stuff - it just didn't look that convincing during this movie.
 
i watched it again last night, because my wife wanted to see it. enjoyed it more second time around because i was able to take a bit more in.

yeah, it's hackneyed, and a rip-off of umpteen stories and themes, but no less enjoyable a piece of movie-making for that.

my absolute favourite bit is:

the cimb up Iknimaya - The Path to Heaven, to get to where the Banshees are. just watching them scamper up those tendrils and across those vines in the dizzying heights of the clouRAB is superb
 
I watched "Avatar" yesterday and I must say I agree with everything you just said.

However, I did enjoy a couple of scenes...some even reminded me of "Aliens"...especially near the end.
 
I don't care much for CGI too especially extensive CGI. I am not one to go "ooooh, look at that it looks so real!!!!!!" I read the synopsis on moviespoilers.com and the plot looks diabolical.

Not going to spend money on this at all. maybe persuade my old man to give it a go (and pay) ;)
 
I found that I forgot it was CGI, so at least give it ago as I went originally thinking that it would not be that good.

I mean one of those craft landing in the grass on top of the cliff, it looked as real as a scene from Apocalypse Now.

Plus the Na'vi, well I would say that they used genetically altered actors.
 
having seen it imax 3d,i found it excellent,effects superb...guess its a must to view at a cinema/complex..perhaps not the same feeling slouched in front of the 'box' at home when its released on dvd...
 
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