AVATAR Report...
POSTED BY: out2theblack
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 00:13
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AVATAR 'Certified " Fresh "':
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/
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Cameron and Whedon. Would that rock or would it ROCK!?
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Originally posted by Freebrowncoat:
Cameron and Whedon. Would that rock or would it ROCK!?
Absolutely !
Locally , last weekend , BOTH the 2D and 3D versions of AVATAR were selling out , which I consider very positive...
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TIME magazine reviews good/not-so-good about Avatar : http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599194743800
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Official word from this corner ?
It kicked ass - and coming from me for a hollywood product, that is as high praise as it gets.
A bit heavy handed on the 3D effects, especially in a couple places that didn't need it, but in scenes where they did add something, it added a lot.
Good story, a bit cliche, yes, but the quality of the visual experience, which can best be described as sledgehammer-stunning, more than makes up for it.
And I got to see my favorite frenemy get some more work, a small but rockin part, and it plays to a bit of an in-joke between us.
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I play Air Rivals, and fly the Meadow Bugle, using very similar hide and seek tactics as she does in her little moment of glory.
Final judgement: Worth every damned penny.
-F
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I'm amazed at the shining reviews on here. After about 45 minutes I was bored to death. The special effects were outstanding and they carried the first 45 minutes, but the story was a complete waste. There wasn't anything even slightly interesting in it. Everything that happened was foreshadowed to death. I found myself sitting there thinking "ok so we all know X is going to happen so just get to it already". I ended up pretty disappointed that all that effort went into special effects and they didn't bother with the story.
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I thought it was magnificent. Folk dissing the story musta left their hearts locked up in a box at home. I found the characters' lives far too engaging to not see the unfolding events from their perspective. Sam Worthington nailed every beat of Jake Sully's character arc.
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Loved the scene when he wakes up with a pair of functioning legs and can't wait to get the hell out of the lab and run!
The science fiction of the alien world was gorram breathtaking. The way Cameron captured the three distinct cultures in the film--military/scientific/indigenous--was masterful.
Anyway, it's been a while since I could honestly describe a movie as "magnificent" and I wasn't expecting to like it anywhere as much as I did.
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Wow HK - so the message of "Only a white male can save the savages" didn't bug you just a lil' bit? My heart didn't exactly like that part. 
Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com
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Huh ?
Imma spoiler the whole thing, instead of pickin out bits...
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Seemed more a collective effort on behalf of a number of people, particularly the scientists, one of whom was female as I recall, and a brave dropship pilot who was a little darker than the rest of them mind you.
I didn't really get any whiff of that mighty-whitey crap off it, cause our main "hero" wasn't exactly the sharpest pencil in the box (which amused me to no end, honestly) but he brought them two things absolutely vital to their survival - accurate realtime intelligence, and a knowledge of the enemy and their weaknesses, dim he may have been, but the guy WAS a marine, and knew the value of these things instinctively.
I was thinkin on things, and it occurred to me that if the scientist chick had maybe made the argument better, or in terms the corp rep could actually understand, there would not have been a fight - follow me for a moment here.
Sure, unobtainium is worth a bloody lot of money, but it's a finite resource with a limited application - on the other hand, a neural network of the density she described is, financially, MORE valuable to the company even if they had to clone it from native samples, especially if it's ability to direct interface can be preserved or adapted in some fashion because it is a renewable resource with damn near unlimited applications.
They were letting their tunnel vision for the metal blind em to tons of filthy lucre just layin around for the taking, but the only person who KNEW that was almost incapable of communicating with her own species, heh.
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Wow HK - so the message of "Only a white male can save the savages" didn't bug you just a lil' bit?
My heart didn't exactly like that part.
If not a white male, SOMEBODY...
It wasn't Jake who saved the Na'Vi, it was their enviro-god.
The Na'Vi were getting their asses handed to them until the enviro-god intervened.
The whole "noble savage" thing only works in fiction, anyhow.
The Na'Vi may have been able to talk to god,
but apparently they hadn't even developed a written language.
Although I rooted for the Na'Vi in the fictional construct of AVATAR,
I'd NEVER be willing to give up literature and cinema and all visual media (like FIREFLY)
and V-8 cars and grocery stores and indoor plumbing...and on and on.
I'm glad for Jake and the Na'Vi that they are content
to gut and dress their dinner, poop in the woods and ride banshees without parachutes,
but I wouldn't be joining them.
So its not about white men or any racial-sexual thing,
it's about who is willing to take the knowledge gained from having been civilized,
and apply it to a savage lifestyle.
Mike
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