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Bree

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I just saw Avatar on 3D IMAX. I have seen a lot of movies in my 57 years but this was the best film I have ever seen... bar none. Absolutely spectacular! Stunning, breathtaking, brilliant!!

I am a lifelong Lord of the Rings fan having read the books 7 times and LOTR 3 was like heaven to me but Avatar blew LOTR 3 away. It has redefined what a movie can be. If you love sci fi and action films... take a half day off and track down the nearest IMAX and get down there right away. This is a Best in Class film. Heck it is the BEST film I have ever seen period.

You are going to be blown away by the world of the planet Pandora and it's people.... the Na'vi. I won't tell you the story, but its an excellent screenplay with terrific acting. The cinematography... beyond your wildest imagination.

Bring tissues you will need them. And be prepared to hold on to your chair... tightly because this movie rocks!!
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Bree, I fully agree with you regarding the cinematography and the 3d effects. Avitar certainly set the next standard for movies. A+ for cinematography and effects.

But... as a science fiction fan, the story line left a lot laking. Just a rehash of several classic SF themes, not really anything new there. B- for story line.

And finally I would give it a D- for its "one world", "evil human race", "scientific advancement is bad", etc., etc. sub themes. The movie could have done without these completely... Cameron (and other directors/producers) should save their political beliefs for somewhere other than big screen.
 
I agree as well. Amazing and a must see in 3D. I am going again tomorrow night but taking the kids this time.
 
Saw it this past weekend. Entire family loved it. Agree there were some rehash of themes we have seen before, but it was fresh, if not predictable in a few places. Will definitely be getting the DVD for this one.
 
3 D in the future!

Avatar was (is) offered here (Japan) in both 3-D and regular, and LOML and I went to the 3-D one. It was fantastic. I have seen a couple of 3-D theater videos before and they were great. The two previous ones were designed to give audience "interaction", but since this was a movie that was written as a movie and not for direct interaction with the audience, it was stunning! It makes other movies and TV seem so bland!

The two other recent 3-D movies I mentioned were short, made for museum and company presentations in which birds or objects came right up to you as the viewer. It was fun to watch audience reactions - screams and ducking! WOW! BTW, these used the grayish colored glasses as in Avatar, not the red/blue of old.
 
I will echo many of the comments here, superb cinematography, the technology has finally matured to the point that it helps tell the story, not to distract from it like Lucas let it do in the end of star wars. Character development and dialog writing was superb. "a warrior of the Jarheaded tribe" indeed. And the Na'vi were an elegant treatment of a pretty stock SF archetype. The physical neural connection enabling the telepathic linkage is almost a direct lift from the Gen/Sime chronicles. The concept of a central repository for the consciousness of the departed is also pretty well explored, although I can't recall one being placed in a tree specifically. Even the central concept of the avatar itself, a remotely ensouled doppelganger that collapses when the operator wakes up was done somewhere, but I can't specifically remember where.

Loved the details, despised the mealy mouthed, left wing, progress is evil, primitive stone age life is all so much more noble and of course, the crowning idocy, any military commander portrayed in a movie must demonstrate as many military traits as the director can possibly warp enough to appear mindlessly and implacably evil. Anybody see an animated flick a couple of years ago called "Battle for Terra"? I swear he could have cribbed about 75 percent of the story line.

But of course, that's simply to be expected in anything to come out of Califruti nowdays, along with the likes of Nanci Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, so I ignored it as much as possible and enjoyed the spectacle.
 
I thought the movie was good, and I also saw it in 3D. But, I can only give it a B, unless you compare it to the new Star Trek and then it's a D. I loved the effects, and I loved most of the story but not all of it. The movie was way too long. I could have done without the "Man is evil" idea..even though in many ways it can be true, I don't need it driven into me. I would have been happy just with the idea of human scientists trying to learn and understand the alien creatures..you could have gone a long long way just with that.
 
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