Avatar movie review
Dänk 1010011010
movie I've ever seen. And that was in 2d, next week I'm going to see
it again in 3d.
The digital effects are so realistic you would swear it was filmed on
a real alien world, and the imagination behind them is too incredible
to describe in words.
The movie is set in the year 2154 on an alien moon called Pandora
which orbits a gas giant in another solar system. Pandora is
inhabited by 10-foot-tall blue humanoids called the Na'vi. The Na'vi
are peaceful people with no technology but who possess deep
spirituality and live in harmony with nature.
Unfortunately, the Na'vi live on top of a deposit of a valuable
mineral, so humans have decided to relocate them by force, and kill
them if they resist.
Pandora's atmosphere is toxic to humans, so the mining company has
created human/alien hybrid bodies called avatars which are controlled
by humans via some kind of electronic telepathic link. A paralyzed
Marine named Jake Scully is chosen to link with an avatar and is sent
to carry a message to the Na'vi that they must move or be destroyed.
Scully the Avatar eventually falls in love with the Na'vi people and
is finally accepted into their tribe. When the bulldozers finally
arrive to tear up the Na'vi home in the forest, Scully leads the Na'vi
into battle against the evil humans.
After a spectacular battle which pits Na'vi with bows and arrows
against humans with missiles and bombs and giant killing machines, the
Na'vi finally win and send the humans back to the dead Earth they came
from.
The Na'vi are able to transfer Scully's consciousness into his avatar
permanently, allowing his human body to die and he lives with them
happily ever after, or at least until the inevitable sequel.
Frogwatch
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKay, so what element is so valuable as to require an
interstellar voyage?
So, humans who can cross interstellar distances cannot drop missiles
from space onto the big Smurfs?
Sounds LAME.
Marcus Aurelius
film basically says that the " ends do not justify the means" and that
"what goes around comes around." The philosophical terms for the
aforementioned are the hypothetical imperative and the categorical
imperative. The Vietnam War movie, "Platoon", asserted these same
philosophical norms as do many war movies. I experienced the same
while I was a soldier in Vietnam.
As a work of cinematographic and dramatic art, I give the film my
highest rating.
Frogwatch
You needed a movie about interstellar travel to tell you that "the
ends do not justify the means"? WHOA, DUDE, COZMIC.
Don H
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# I haven't seen it, but get the gist.
No doubt CGI is impressive, but story seems like The Matrix meets
District 9 - in Outer Space.
The hype has netted one billion dollars in box office takings, which only
proves number of persons who saw it (not how many enjoyed it).
Still, any movie with a positive spin is welcome.
But, as some say, is it all needed to state the obvious? - Humans are not
always Good and Right, when versus Nature and Others.
Claudius Denk
Unobtanium. No joke. That's what they called it in the movie.
BTW: it was a great movie! I highly recommend it.