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I liked this movie quite a bit, and the 3D was a nice touch, but I don't think it made the movie - the CGI did. Halfway through the movie I forgot it was CGI, I was totally immersed in the world of Avatar, and you know that is when CGI has truly reached its potential.
Avatar's greatest strength was the total immersion into Pandora, but it also created its greatest weakness - the lame, blatant, and unneeded direct allusions to the Iraq War. "Terror with terror." "Shock and awe." Those lines were pathetic - and totally removed me from the immersion of the movie - it brought me away from Pandora and back to Earth. The meaning of the movie could have been made much more profoundly, in my view, if it were made more subtly. |
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Like I said, if anything - it's more of an allusion to Native Americans than the Iraq War. |
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"The battle plan is based on a concept developed at the National Defense University. It's called "Shock and Awe" and it focuses on the psychological destruction of the enemy's will to fight rather than the physical destruction of his military forces." It's interesting you point out the Native American angle, though, as I saw the movie with one, and he also thought it alluded more to Native Americans than the Iraq War, but I'm not so sure. |
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Personally I got more of an anti unregulated capitalism message.
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Maybe I don't associate it with the (current) Iraq War because the phrase has been around for 15 years. Quote:
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So that's why it felt so similar.. :p
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Related news: I bought 'Dances With Wolves' on DVD. :) Together with The Day After Tomorrow and I,Robot.
But I still haven't seen Avatar... |
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So James Cameron stole Disney's Pocahontas story and Disney stole it from real life. James Cameron also stole the story of Titanic from real life. What a guy.
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This just in: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings was not an original story.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/29...elling-ri.html Read the above link. If the film had even attempted to do some of those things the story may have been interesting, but it didn't. I know, I'm sure James Cameron is crying into his $2 billion right now because I didn't like his movies. Terminator was rad though. |
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Fuck! Typhoid beat me to posting how Avatar = Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, FernGully, Etc.
Average story/George Lucas-esque dialogue with amazing special effects. I enjoyed it quite a bit but had more fun at Star Trek this summer. I was totally immersed in the world of Avatar and was feeling quite euphoric when he walked through the forest and things started glowing, and the part where he rode the dragon thing for the first time. The movie may or may not had racist undertones, and the whole story where the civilized white people destroy then save the savage natives is pretty fucking cliche (and racist...?...). All in all it was good cinema, although it dragged on 40 minutes past its welcome. And the interspecies fucking was weird. |
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I finally saw the movie yesterday in regular 3D. Tried to see it in IMAX 3D, but it was sold out for the next two showings.
The movie is a spectacle, and I admit I became totally immersed in the world of Pandora like a movie has not done for me probably since I was a kid. It brought out the mostly dormant sense of wonder in me, and for that, I love the movie. For me, much of the plot was the visuals. For example, Jake is brought to a new world and is awed by seeing all of these amazing, wonderful sights for the very first time. At the same time, for me and I'm sure many others, we are seeing a 3D movie for the first time and equally awed by the amazing sights. Put simply, I felt what the character felt, which is what a good movie does. Also, I really liked the scene when Jake first tried out his Avatar. I could feel the joy it must have been to go from paralyzed legs to not just working legs, but the strength and agility of his new avatar. I appreciate that they did this with subtlety. Jake doesn't come out and say he likes having legs again, which I think would be out of character, you simply understand the joy he has in it when he runs and runs and runs. This theme is repeated throughout the film. Humans controlling avatars, avatars/Navi controlling animals, and finally human becoming Na'vi. The story of a broken human being finding his soul and saved because of it. The allusion to the Iraq War is there but I think only in passing. Yes, the "shock and awe" and "fight terror with terror" are direct references, but I think meant only as ideas that the audience immediately understands. Oil and unobtanium could be seen as one in the same, but like Typhoid said, a Native American-type people connected to the earth and fighting with bows and arrows isn't anything like a Middle Eastern people. So, no, I don't think the movie is meant as an allusion to the conflict in the Middle East. |
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Stole me pic for video. EDIT: Nice guy. Might do work for him. |
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Work freelance for him?
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Yeah I suppose since he does this for a living. Told him to email me if had any ideas. Would be a nice side thing to my comics. The exposure itself is amazing though. He linked to my rarely used (until Avatar came out) DeviantArt page. The bar graph for page views cracks me up:
Monday: 0 Tuesday: 5 Wednesday: 4 Thursday: 13 Today:780 |
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Heh, I know right? His video had well over 300,000 views before I emailed him.
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From the guy who did the Watchmen cartoon show intro.
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So I finally saw Smurfs the Movie. I mean Avatar.
I don't see what the fuzz on both sides is about. Yes, it's a very entertaining and pretty movie, but it's not the best movie ever. Yes, the story was mediocre and cliché, but it was told well. The 3D really added to the experience, but I don't see the hype about that either. I'm glad I saw it in 3D. By the way, I can totally see this movie staying in cinemas for several years. People will keep wanting to see this in 3D on the big screen. It's better than the generic sea life documentaries they air all the time. And was there anyone else a bit in love with... Eyliti or whatever her name was? It reminded me of Alyx of Half-Life. You somehow bond with these 2 digital girls. |
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