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[Montessa Python]

Black crystal...
You are right. IMBD is wrong...


I do want to share an edited for language version of what a friend wrote about this movie..
it is rather amusing.. whether you like it or not.. the review is hilarious.

2D -- we don't have an IMAX down here.

The CGI and visuals were stunning, probably the best I've ever seen....

The storyline sucked dead rhino behind...beyond dead rhino behind...a whole herd of dead rhinos with putrid dead behinds.
That had to be the dumbest, most derivative, most boring, most annoying plot and dialogue in a movie ever. The technology was idiotic and made no sense -- it truly was an insult to my intelligence. The characterization was also an insult to my intelligence and stupidly one dimensional beyond belief. Don't get me into the overdone "message" -- unless you want a rant.

I hope to one day see that sort of CGI work (although maybe not so much of it; it was spread on a bit thick) in an actual movie.
And if I ever see a blue cat-elf alien I'm afraid I'm going to try to beat it to death with a tire iron (seriously, those things SUPER ANNOYED (replaced bad word) me).
By the end I was starting to hope they'd make an Avatar 2...so the East India Trading Co. (er, the corporation) could come back with the regular military and kick the behinds(Bad word) out of the darn (bad word!!) blue catsmurfs. One word: napalm

Although I did have fun saying "win ga po" (together with appropriate hand signal) during the flick...oh, that and "tatonka" -- just because my behind was numb and I was bored silly by that point and wanted to slap Jake Sully.

[MarkieJ]

Black crystal...
You are right. IMBD is wrong...

Wow, this movie just hit a billion dollars worldwide. Kudos to James Cameron who now has 2 movies that made over a billion under his belt.

[WingedWolfPsion]

--SPOILER ALERT---


I think the plot was more interesting than people give it credit for. After all, this wasn't about a nature-loving native people who represent some ideal--that's actually a misconception that the money-grubbing aliens fell prey to.
It's not about nature worship or religion, they're actually part of something that the humans don't have any conception of. Every living thing on that world is connected to every other living thing, either directly or through a single intermediary--not metaphorically, or symbolically, but literally. The Gaia concept isn't just an idea there, it's completely literal and physical. The bad guys were warned why what they were doing was a bad idea, but didn't listen. The consequences weren't delayed by very long--predictable, but extremely fun to watch. Unlike Earth, Pandora is perfectly capable of defending itself. There's no need for people to speak out to defend it--if people cause trouble, Pandora will kick them off.

That's not exactly an environmentalism lesson--it's more about not being so narrowly focused on a belief or a goal that you miss seeing what's actually going on around you. Along with a healthy portion of watching people get what they deserved.

[MarkS]

--SPOILER ALERT---


I think the plot was more interesting than people give it credit for. After all, this wasn't about a nature-loving native people who represent some ideal--that's actually a misconception that the money-grubbing aliens fell prey to.
It's not about nature worship or religion, they're actually part of something that the humans don't have any conception of. Every living thing on that world is connected to every other living thing, either directly or through a single intermediary--not metaphorically, or symbolically, but literally. The Gaia concept isn't just an idea there, it's completely literal and physical. The bad guys were warned why what they were doing was a bad idea, but didn't listen. The consequences weren't delayed by very long--predictable, but extremely fun to watch. Unlike Earth, Pandora is perfectly capable of defending itself. There's no need for people to speak out to defend it--if people cause trouble, Pandora will kick them off.

That's not exactly an environmentalism lesson--it's more about not being so narrowly focused on a belief or a goal that you miss seeing what's actually going on around you. Along with a healthy portion of watching people get what they deserved.

Well, I understood that. But it didn't strike me as anything really new and unusual. For as much money and as many years as went into the making of this, I really would have prefered a plot and story line that was more involved then what I could have seen on a saturday morning episode of Captain Planet. I still loved the movie. Visually it was a feast for the eyes, intellectually I thought it fell kind of short. Just my opinion.

[Mitch21]

Just got out of Avatar 3D. I've been waiting to look at this thread until I saw the movie. I just read allll of these posts and wow are there a lot of mixed and STRONG opinions!

Fantastic movie in my opinion. I thought the storyline was very engaging and although it was similar to other successful movies, I thought it was amazingly done. Even though I'm sure it would be a beautiful movie to see in 2D, IMO 3D is the only way to do it!

[Lolo76]

They're showing Avatar in IMAX 3D at the theater downtown (SF), and I'm dying to see it in that format... unfortunately it's been sold out since opening day, and for every possible showtime in the near future.