Well, just sat through AVATAR. At its lowest, a sci-fi Dances With Wolves. Once again, James Cameron has produced a so-so love story, much like the TITANIC where DeCaprio never did engage my belief that he was some magnetic hunk of man, or that the girl had more than an 80 IQ. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that like the TITANIC Cameron has put on a visual epic that tickles the mind and engages the intellect. I heard that AVATAR was the new STAR WARS because of the quantum leap in graphic design and visual effects. I think it was much more than that. Almost as soon as the movie starts, the distinction between the real and special effects blurs quickly and you no longer see the difference. You are drawn into the moon-world of Pandora just as quickly as an Indiana Jones movie brings you into Egypt or India, and with the same believability.
With the advantage of sitting in my office and reflecting on the movie, I realize that the graphics and special effects were not quite perfect. Nowhere was the clinker of the uncertain or jerky movement of a character, nowhere was there an obviously flat scene or object, but I now have the feeling that there may have been a bit more real feeling with the Na’Vi people. But, I can tell you, during the movie it never entered my mind. I was sold, hook line and sinker with the story and the visualization of that world in conflict.
Bravo, James Cameron. Please hurry to your next endeavor.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Wilfred // Dec 31, 2009 at 11:47 am
Avatar was fantastic. A visual spectacle. Its message concerning environmental issues and racial tensions were effectively placed within Cameron’s storyline.
2 Anonymous // Dec 31, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Mustang: Good points, but again a rehash of old movies on Native Americans. Another clunker that stuck out after I slept on it overnight, the archaic weapons used by the Earthlings after they developed space travel and the interface system for developing the avatars.
If you can get hold of a copy of “LITTLE BIG MAN”, you can see a great story of the Northern Cheyenne, and a fun story of American West history.
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