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I finally forced myself to see it. And, yes, I'm glad I did.
What I found most interesting was the different ways you could interpret this movie - environmentally, politically, even spiritually. Whatever happens to stand out the most to you. For me, it was the religious aspects I ended up focusing on. Though the environmentalist agenda was kind of pushed, I actually wasn't annoyed by it.
I did feel that the plot was predictable, but the way the movie was handled totally made up for it. Despite knowing the direction it would go, I was still on the edge of my seat.
As many have already told me, it was visually awesome. In fact, the kind of visual awesomeness that I have been waiting for since computers took the place of stop-motion puppets. I want to hug whoever designed the world and the creatures, then made that world come to life. I'm a very, very visual person so this movie was heaven for me. I loved the natives and their culture, that they felt like an actual culture instead of some random culture tossed in for the sake of it. I loved how the ecosystem worked and that it made sense, and loved that it was conscious.
Some of you have said that it's a lot like Fern Gully, and it is. But Avatar is way, waaaaaaaay cooler :D
But, seriously, I wish they would drop all the 3-D crap as I'm getting sick of it. The movie would have been just as awesome in 2-D and I wouldn't have ended up with a pressure headache :P Those stupid glasses kill me (though, really, they weren't as bad this time around since I went to a different theater. Last time I saw a 3-D movie, the glasses had all these specks and smudges that refused to be wiped away, and it made me nauseas). And the 3-D effects were disorienting more than fascinating. Sometimes they were cool, but not enough to make wearing those glasses worth it. And that you have watch the movie in 3-D is wrong. Theaters should offer a choice (and some do, I think. Bigger theaters at any rate).
Other than that - and all the same - I really, really liked Avatar and am glad I listened to my curiosity rather than wariness and saw it :D
What I found most interesting was the different ways you could interpret this movie - environmentally, politically, even spiritually. Whatever happens to stand out the most to you. For me, it was the religious aspects I ended up focusing on. Though the environmentalist agenda was kind of pushed, I actually wasn't annoyed by it.
I did feel that the plot was predictable, but the way the movie was handled totally made up for it. Despite knowing the direction it would go, I was still on the edge of my seat.
As many have already told me, it was visually awesome. In fact, the kind of visual awesomeness that I have been waiting for since computers took the place of stop-motion puppets. I want to hug whoever designed the world and the creatures, then made that world come to life. I'm a very, very visual person so this movie was heaven for me. I loved the natives and their culture, that they felt like an actual culture instead of some random culture tossed in for the sake of it. I loved how the ecosystem worked and that it made sense, and loved that it was conscious.
Some of you have said that it's a lot like Fern Gully, and it is. But Avatar is way, waaaaaaaay cooler :D
But, seriously, I wish they would drop all the 3-D crap as I'm getting sick of it. The movie would have been just as awesome in 2-D and I wouldn't have ended up with a pressure headache :P Those stupid glasses kill me (though, really, they weren't as bad this time around since I went to a different theater. Last time I saw a 3-D movie, the glasses had all these specks and smudges that refused to be wiped away, and it made me nauseas). And the 3-D effects were disorienting more than fascinating. Sometimes they were cool, but not enough to make wearing those glasses worth it. And that you have watch the movie in 3-D is wrong. Theaters should offer a choice (and some do, I think. Bigger theaters at any rate).
Other than that - and all the same - I really, really liked Avatar and am glad I listened to my curiosity rather than wariness and saw it :D
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Date: 2010-01-01 03:24 am (UTC)From:In our market they offer both 2-D and 3-D. I don't like 3-D either and so saw 2-D and it was awesome. One of my sons saw it twice, once each way and prefered the 2-D. Oddly enough, the movie crashed like 5 seconds before the credits rolled so they were given free tickets to see any movie within the next 14 months. Lucky guys.
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Date: 2010-01-01 03:41 am (UTC)From:I really don't get this push for 3-D. It's not really all that amazing, and there wasn't all that much of it in the movie. Although I had to admit that I was also curious about how it would look in 3-D, thus adding a little extra fuel to my motivation to go.
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Date: 2010-01-01 07:41 am (UTC)From:One of the aspects I adored was the main character was handicapped. That was way cool.
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Date: 2010-01-01 06:27 pm (UTC)From:But, great film. The spx were soo good you didn't go that's a CGi character, you saw them as actors, and the biolum of the planet - LOVED it, and the floating jellyfish critters... I want one!
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Date: 2010-01-02 03:19 am (UTC)From: