If it wasn't for the awesome special effects, realism, and somewhat good action (I expected more /flame) then it woulda been an "okay" movie. My native American heritage got slightly angry during the middle of the movie, then thrilled as they beat the crap outta the humans. Other than the special effects and whatnot (which, don't get me wrong, was awesome and revolutionary to the 3D movie industry) it was nothing ground breaking.
Man I jumped for joy ever time we got a shot of her boob. The script was passable but I loved the movie for what makes it different from so many movies these days. James Cameron, like him or not, makes movies big and epic to get you to come to the theater regardless of the fact that you have a 52" 120Hz LCD TV and Dolby 7.1 with Blu-Ray at home already. He makes movies that are a big spectacle and Avatar was something that you will really not appreciate unless you take in the whole theater experience. I did it in 3D and it was freaking fantastic. I also think it says something that the movie is only three weeks in and it's not very freaking far away from breaking the 1-point-whatever Billion dollar total sales of Titanic. And Avatar has made very close revenue in the three weeks, not falling off a lot. In the industry this is called "Having Legs" and no movies have legs any more. I think it's word-of-mouth working in Avatar's favor.
It felt like the world lacked actual creatures. There were 5 animals shown in the movie and that was it. The rest were just plants that glowed when you touch them. I personally hate 3D movies, maybe cause I've never seen one in IMAX, because if you aren't focused on what they want you to be focused on the whole thing is fucking fuzzy as shit. I feel like I would've probably liked the movie better if I saw it normal.
I went with a group of friends. One friend complained about the animals. She said something like, those giant animals would never live in such a dense forest. The creatures weren't original they just added an extra set of arms to everything. Overall I enjoyed it. I didn't think it was the best thing out there. Predictable but enjoyable. Id probably give it 7/10.
Haha, I remember thinking the same thing, they really never would have evolved to be so big if they spent all their time in that dense of flora. But, for a movie gotta go big or go home.
Saw it today in IMAX 3D with my wife. It was a great experience and I'm glad I went to see it on the big screen. The story was pretty silly but it was enjoyable. I loved the interfaces and the equipment they were using. I didn't understand a few things. Spoiler I didn't get the part about all of the mercenaries gunning down the innocent people. They must have all been sociopaths with zero empathy. If they did just want to get rid of them then they could have used one tactical nuke when all of the tribes were gathered at the magical tree. The EM field messed with guidance systems, blah blah, just drop a nuke with a timer from several kilometers above the tree. Giant robots with knives? Really?
No, the script was started in 1994. Digital animation would have been going on four years at most. Weta started picking up more artists end of '08 so the crunch time was a lot shorter. James Cameron waited so long because the technology had to catch up with the vision for the film; any art assets started in 1994 would be long since useless.
Yea I know the script was written since then but what I ment is that if he wanted to wait so long for the technology to come out why not wait 2 months to actually give Pandora life.
Huge expense for minor difference, perhaps. Considering the budget was epic in itself, I can't see anything of importance being left out for the sake of a few million dollars, so I think it's more likely other creatures never figured into the script, and no-one saw significant reason to add them.
Some of you may get a kick out of this, others not so much http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/epic-fail-avatar-plot-fail.jpg
I've seen it in at least two other places already, yes. It didn't escape my notice that there were similarities either - but you could pretty much do that between any two slightly similar films if you tried hard enough.