Blockbuster. No shit!
Groundbreaking animation, a magical melding of computer generated creatures and human actors.
Green Morality Play ala James Cameron.
Classic Romance Novel. Boy meets girl. Girl wants to kill boy but saves him instead. Girl and boy come to understand and respect one another. Love and lust blossom. BIG misunderstanding and breakup. Boy proves himself and saves the day, winning the girl’s heart. HEA.
Wake up, Joseph Campbell, your Hero Archetype is on starring on IMAX! How do ya like those apples?
Although Avatar does have an overt, duh, (not covert as some film critics have suggested), political agenda, and despite some motion sickness due to the 3D glasses, my eyes were pretty much riveted on the screen for nearly three hours.
It wasn’t until I slept on it that I woke up wondering about a few points, such as…How come two hundred years in the future, we can travel for five (Light years?) to another star system but our soldiers still wear the exact same fatigues they do now and shoot automatic weapons? What? We don’t have laser guns in the future?
What is the point of mining if there are no human colonies nearby? Cuz it sorta seems to me to be prohibitively expensive to be shipping the ore - absolutelyimpossibletogetium - across the galaxy on the off chance that humans still want it or need it or even still survive on earth. Doesn’t the theory of relativity hold that the faster you travel, relatively less time passes for you while back on earth, we age…like…a million years? Of course, I’m paraphrasing here. It’s not as if I’m a physicist or anything. I just didn’t understand the point of the mining operation - because the ore and the far too young, sniveling weasel of a…nope, won’t give away a spoiler here.
And then, what was with the masks? Seems to me that Pandora is an earth-like planet with a pretty much earth-like atmosphere, water, water vapor, so on and so forth, yet if you stepped outside without your oxygen mask, you were unconscious within seconds. But whatever was in the atmosphere didn’t bother your skin. Not in the slightest. I’m thinking, okay, since the Na’vi are blue, perhaps there is a higher percentage of carbon monoxide in their atmosphere. Yes, but if so, it still wouldn’t render you unconscious within seconds. Or as my daughter suggests, maybe the oxygen molecules on Pandora are too big to slip through our alveola and into our bloodstream. Tapping my chin…sounds reasonable. Still, the plants on Pandora are green so I suspect we’re talking chlorophyll here, along with an atmospheric mix of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and the other gases in our own atmosphere, plus the life forms are carbon-based. The sky is blue and to all intents and purposes, Pandora appears to have a yellow sun. Oh my head is spinning with possibilities.
To quote my daughter: “Suspend disbelief all who enter here!”
To quote my bird: “Maybe.”
Think, Dances with Wolves meets anti-Independence Day, or check out the South Park Episode, Dances with Smurfs. Cartman goes native…
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I saw Avatar in an Imax theater last Tuesday with my husband, my best friends and two nine year old boys. Our large party was pushed off to the far corner of the theater and I had to twist forward for three hours to watch the action and calm upset children but other than that I loved this movie!
I’m going to see Avatar again because I know I missed a few important comments about the atmosphere and gravity of Pandora. Yes the message is overt but I loved watching Sigorney Weaver and Gaia kick ass. Sigorney has a lot of experience battling aliens and protecting Gorilla’s in the Mist-in Avatar she does both. Plus the the lead actor is so handsome he looks great as Jake and as his Avatar.
Cameron did such a wonderful job of introducing us to the Na vi. When we see them in the lab for the first time they are goofy and almost repulsive but in their element they become beautiful. By the end of the movie I was ready to join the tribe.
I tell skeptics that this is a movie to feel-not think about. I recommend everyone go and watch Avatar with the eyes of a nine year old and they’ll understand who Cameroon is trying to reach.
XXOO Kat
Whoops! that’s James Cameron not Camaroon though the jungles of Pandora are a bit Cameroon-ish…
Yes, I would have hooked up with the Na’vi and stayed on Pandora. Sigourney Weaver’s character did remind me of her role in Gorillas in the Mist. She does indeed kick butt!
OH. MY. GOD. This is the best movie everrrrrr. The family went to see it last night. To begin with, I got a laugh out of the Buddy Holly 3-D glasses but then the movie started and I stopped laughing. This was such an incredible movie. Yes, I suspended belief over a few points but the whole thing was so damn fascinating who cares about the details. I suffered a bit of dizziness at the very beginning, just getting used to the 3-D thing but after awhile it didn’t bother me a bit. I plan to see it again and I must say my kids were speechless. I wouldn’t recommend this for very young kids and I saw plenty in the theater last night but older kids should love it as much as the adults did.
Oh btw…I couldn’t help but laugh because I plan to blog about this movie myself tomorrow. LOL. Great minds.
Hey Regina, yup! I’ll check out your blog tomorrow! I loved the movie and then started thinking about the science and then decided to just enjoy the experience!
I can’t wait to see this movie! Kick-butt heroines, blue people and what looks like some amazing action/adventure-yep, I think I’ll suspend my disbelief and just enjoy it;-)
If anyone has commented and your comment wasn’t picked up, I apologize - Jennifer and Sandra - both of your comments are on my admin page but I can’t get them on this page!
Yeah Paris, suspend disbelief. It’s worth it!