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I just saw this for the first time a few days ago. Maybe everyone has already seen it. If you haven’t I highly recommend seeing it now! This is a beautiful film with a wonderful message. The special effects are AWESOME! A feast for the eyes and a movie to truly experience.
For me, there was so much meaning within the movie. I can’t wait to watch it again to see what I find. My dad also loves it and found a lot of meaning in it.
I found it to have a deeply spiritual message. I love the earth based mythology of the people living on the planet Pandora. I love the avatar concept that shows we are more than a body. It is great stuff to ponder.
Yes, great movie. I did sense the “Hollywood-ish” message come through of tree huggers…capitalism is evil … environmentalism … and such. But I didn’t find it went overboard with it. It was part of the message, and a fair point of how the native life (obviously paralleling the Native Americans and how settlers tried to push them out of their home and their culture and their religion) can be seen as primitive but that doesn’t mean less meaningful. Kind of a “Dances with Wolves” in space kind of movie, huh? The native belief of all things are connected like a network to balance life on Pandora was really cool. Like you said, the idea that the body was just a vehicle is deep.
Obviously the graphics and the colors and the creatures were all so cool to watch in HD…we bought the movie on Blu-Ray and have watched it several times already.
I thought it was an all-around good movie with a good plot and storyline, good acting, good special effects, and lots of action. One of my favorites of the year!
Beautiful movie! Some people criticize the story as being a remake of Pocahontas, but then again I get into arguments like that with a brother-in-law who is a TV producer. We end up at the same conclusion every time — there’s never been original story since Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, LOL. Every story since then was a permutation of it.
Avatar was an enjoyable movie experience and a nice story. I was entertained and inspired. That’s good enough for me
Eye candy. Amazing effects. Predictable, tired plot. Poor character development. Really long movie to have characters so poorly developed. Dumb, uninspired dialogue. Interesting concept of the Avatar, and great special effects, but not worth the hype in my opinion. But, I’m a tough sell with movies. I really don’t want to see this film. It seems to have too much form over substance. Special effects date quickly, and are no substitute for a good story, and characters etc.
I can’t take seriously any film which features something called “unobtainium”.
There is some wonderful written science fiction out there, so why does Hollywood have to come out with low concept stuff like this, or trash classics such as I, Robot with cliches?
I heard that there are now support groups being formed for people who have seen the movie. Apparently after seeing the movie, people are finding themselves deeply depressed that they will never live in such a beautiful world! – Serious! Overall, I liked it. The special effects were incredible! And I didn’t mind the message – there’s something timeless to the idea of nature vs. technology. But I do agree with those who hated James Cameron’s cliched dialogue. Several “LOL” moments that shouldn’t have been. He really needs to hire someone to write the dialogue. Titanic had the worst dialogue, too. So bad! flowerdrops wrote:I heard that there are now support groups being formed for people who have seen the movie. Apparently after seeing the movie, people are finding themselves deeply depressed that they will never live in such a beautiful world! – Serious!
Hmm… I smell viral marketing. I heard those stories too, and I don’t believe it. Straight out of the PR dept.
I liked the movie overall. However, like some have said, I thought the plot was horribly predictable and boring. Guy starts out doing x for reasons y, but falls in love with girl z forgetting all about reasons y. Meanwhile, reasons y escalate and guy has to choose between reasons y and girl z. Girl z finds out, hates guy, guy saves day, apologizes, and everyone lives happily ever after. It’s like the classic chick-flick theme revamped with cool special effects and placed in the context of environmentalism and tribal security.
The best part of the movie was the exploration of what it means to be a person. If I’m Euhemerus now, what does it mean to be Euhemerus 10 years from now? How would anyone know it is “me”? Is this inextricably tied to my body, my mind, my “soul”? What does this mean for how we perceive death? What does this mean for the resurrection?
I agree to go with the wife and see ONE movie in the theater a year, and I picked this one for 2010. Big mistake. I thought the first hour and half was AWESOME, and then the next three, four, five hours was horrible. (Do I need to specify that I think the movie was a tad lengthier than it needed to be.) Great scenery and special effects. I thought it was a pretty good movie until the predicable plot actually happened JUST like EVERYONE predicted it would happen. In fact, I thought it was SO predictable that maybe they were setting the audience up and then they were going to do something completely, totally unpredictable for shock value. Does that make sense? I think the second half of the movie lacked some imagination for a “block buster” sci-fi movie. Perhaps I’m crazy, but as the plot unfolded, I couldn’t help but get the feeling there was a hidden Hollywood undertone. I could be over analyzing it, but it felt like Hollywood was taking some popshots at the whole Iraq/Afghanistan occupation – war for oil…
:cwald wrote:Perhaps I’m crazy, but as the plot unfolded, I couldn’t help but get the feeling there was a hidden Hollywood undertone. I could be over analyzing it, but it felt like Hollywood was taking some popshots at the whole Iraq/Afghanistan occupation – war for oil…
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Yer not crazy…that message came through loud and clear. Even my 11 yr old picked up on that one.🙄 Afghanistan’s not just about oil, it’s about the Great Game. (Albeit with America replacing Britain)
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