Has anyone watched Avatar yet? Spoilerz

[screw_ball69]

Resist, and suffer the blue alien princess nipple slip of wrath.

Ok, so I wasn't seeing things after all, that was actually happening.

[Gradius]

I second screwball's comment. It was always at the tip of my eye and never stayed in one frame for too long.

[The_Blade]

Ok, so I wasn't seeing things after all, that was actually happening.

Yes it did, but I fail to find why they look like humans when they live 5 light years away from earth and most of the organisms in there are hexopods. Same with the hip moves during the love scene. They where not even needed as it looks they just had a formal relationship through the "bond". I belive it all just has to do with the magic of us adding our culture into everything. Else you will hate the movie as you might fail to find anything related to your own life like Squid.

[n00bonicPlague]

Dr. Manhattan's dick......alien princess's nipples......

What's with all the Blue Nude?

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Here's what I said in the other thread.

I watched Avatar last night — in 2D. I thought it was pretty good. One particularly nice thing about it is that it wasn't made for the sole purpose of showing off 3D effects. It was a normal movie enhanced with 3D, rather than totally centered around 3D. The plot was of the "natives-getting-run-out-of-their-home-by-a-bunch-of-greedy-prospectors-until-guy-switches-sides-to-save-the-natives" type. There was also a nice amount of the "save-the-green-living-stuff" message, but not too much.

Another nice thing was that the movie never left anything unexplained. They used all 160 minutes to properly detail the story instead of trying to cram everything into less than 120 minutes. Stuff was usually alluded to before you actually saw it, that way when it came around again, you were like, "Oh yeah, that's that important thing they showed a good while ago."

So yeah, it wasn't the most awesome movie in the world, but it didn't suck like half the crap most movie makers have been shooting out at the masses for a quick buck. It was a nice, well balanced movie. 4.25/5

[Eligor]

True.


It's NOT fascism. It's colonialism, and it ain't just American.

Fascism is usually a LOT closer to home.

Considering it had to do more with a belief in military might than a desire to colonise Pandora (they didn't try to sell glass beads to the natives, addle them with drugs or proselytize to them) Fascism seemed the better term.

What I meant is that in Europe Fascism was usually tied to some exalted nationalistic ideology and rigid governmental system, while in the US it always had more to do with a sort of port and cigar machismo, less ideology more attitude (basically what is portrayed in the movie).

[Xyvik]

It would be quite the feat for me to list every movie, book and video game that this movie ripped off. First and foremost it was an almost direct steal from "Manta's Gift" by Timothy Zahn (guy who can't use his legs gets a chance at a new life by being born as an alien...hmmm...sound familiar?)

So take Manta's Gift, Furn Gully, Dances with Wolves, Borderlands (Pandora? The blue swirling effect when he connects to his Avatar? The giant mining machine seen at the beginning?) mash them all together and you have Avatar.

If you don't see it in 3D it's a giant waste of time and money. In 3D, however, there's some worth. I found myself entertained but not blown away.

[screw_ball69]

whoa, never made the Fern Gully connection till you just said that.

[PhanttoM]

Apart from the vegetation, another thing I loved about the visuals were the vehicle designs - that they are all so present day or near future styled.
Which reminds me...

The giant mining machine seen at the beginning?)

Try a google image search for "Bagger 288"

As for "ripoffs" - I haven't seen a single movie in the last 10 years where one couldn't say "it's a ripoff of: <insert lesser known story here>"

[Xyvik]

As for "ripoffs" - I haven't seen a single movie in the last 10 years where one couldn't say "it's a ripoff of: <insert lesser known story here>"

There hasn't been a single story since the Greco-Roman days that has been original, but that's not really the point. Every story is a ripoff of some other story; the skill and greatness of the story is how well you disguise it, or blend it with something else.

Avatar did the blending alright, by blending it with even less-disguised theft. It's all part of movies and storytelling, to be sure, but at least have the decency to disguise it a little better. Cameron has no decency to speak of.

I was entertained by the movie and would like to see it again, I will repeat, but it is not a great movie in my opinion.

[The_Blade]

Considering it had to do more with a belief in military might than a desire to colonise Pandora (they didn't try to sell glass beads to the natives, addle them with drugs or proselytize to them) Fascism seemed the better term.

What I meant is that in Europe Fascism was usually tied to some exalted nationalistic ideology and rigid governmental system, while in the US it always had more to do with a sort of port and cigar machismo, less ideology more attitude (basically what is portrayed in the movie).

They actually tried to work on a diplomatic solution for a short time. This little guy who was supposed to be in charge of the operation called that they offered schools, roads and other stuff but that they liked mud; and the doctor did had a conection with them all, teaching them English. Fascism works under the believe of cultural or race supremacy, WITHOUT the interaction of any attempt a diplomatic solution.