Anyone else still not seen Avatar?

Its not really like that at all, if you haven't seen it how on earth can you judge the story? :confused:

I think its a very good film, not the 'best ever', it has a lot of flaws, for example the half an hour or so is somewhat tedious. But the sheer imagination that went into creating the world is incredible, all the little details. It does have a strong message, like many films, but I wouldn't call it preaching, its more asking the audience to take a look at how we treat the earth and our environment.
 
I fell asleep after 80 minutes.
It's visually stunning but you can only go WOW so many times when the same swooping shots are used to enhance the 3D effect - but that's not much use on the current Bluray.

I wouldn't recommend buyng the new release next month with about 10 minutes more footage .
It was more than long enough as it was.
 
I saw it on blu-ray. I wasn't blown away by the animation, yes it looked pretty but I just felt it just lacked physicality and depth, it felt like a computer game. At least with District 9, the CGI'd elements interacted more coherently with their real world environment and in that sense it was more believable and engaging.
 
I think it suffers badly on Blu Ray, I thought the film LOOKED fantastic at the Cinema, thouroughly deserved it's technical Oscars, but that didn't mask the fact that the plot was preachy derivative claptrap.

I was given this on Blu Ray as a birthday present, I gave it a go but got 35 minutes in before I had to turn it off the dialogue was so painful, and once it was a few feet in front of me in 2d HD, the facial animations looked less convincing than some videogames I've played recently.
 
If you haven't seen it, you really haven't missed anything.

OK the special effects and scenery are good but the story is complete pants, really corny American crap of the highest order.
 
you see, this is where I have to give it the benefit of the doubt. I never saw it in it's intended 3D version, had I done so, it might have scored a little higher in my opinions but in it's 2 dimensional state (HD an' all) it failed miserably. It failed to whisk me off to another world, which animation is perfectly capable of doing, instead I was just stuck staring at a fairly uninspired lanRABcape, watching a fairly uninspired story and listening to some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard in a film.

No, I really didn't like it.
 
There's nothing a pair of 3D glasses can do to fix those issues I'm afraid, to be truly "whisked off to another world" I need to be engaged by the characters and the story more than the visuals in front of my eyes, I guess by your sensible opinions that you would be the same, so try not to be too charitable to what I consider to be the most over-rated film of all time.
 
Next on my Blockbusters list although they're peeing me off at the moment, none of the more modern releases seem to be available, waiting on 'Girl with Dragon Tattoo', 'Hurt Locker' and '9' and have been for quite some time as well as 'Central Station' which I've had on order for 18 months.

Anyway, it might come this weekend or it might not!
 
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