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James Cameron's "Avatar" (grading and discussion)

Grade "Avatar"

  • Excellent

    Votes: 166 50.0%

  • Above Average

    Votes: 85 25.6%

  • Average

    Votes: 51 15.4%

  • Below Average

    Votes: 11 3.3%

  • Terrible

    Votes: 19 5.7%
  • Total voters
    332
Mr Light said:
The CGI is absolutely photorealistic. It was impossible for me to tell what was real and fake. Absolutely amazing achievement.
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This I would have to disagree with. The CGI, particularly on Pandora, was clearly CGI (the "dog creatures," for example). Even some of the "live-action" stuff, the mech-walkers, for example, seemed too reminiscent of, say, Matrix Revolutions. I really loved the world building of the film and the CGI is very good ... just not photorealistic, IMO.
 
Hyperspace05 said:
No he got treatment (he mentions being in a VA hospital), but they just did the minimal thing for him. They did not fix his spine.
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Which means humans have devloped interplanetary travel in anything less than a lifetime, can create alien-human hybrids and can jack humans into these hybrids for control, but still haven't established global UHC. ;)

ah ok, thanks...the whole plug n play aspect was one of the unique things I did like about the film.
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Luckily, all of the animals on Pandora had their most recent firmware update to accept human/native hybrids.

;)
 
I thought the movie was excellent, hopefully a sign of things to come with Sci Fi alien worlds.
 
can create alien-human hybrids
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that's some creepy future tech right there. Imagine if they could create a hybrid but let it become its own person, rather than format it to download someone elses consciousness. And then make those creatures a slave class. A premise for an Earth-based sequel? :shifty:
 
Watching this movie, I really felt like I was watching a classic. This is one that will be watched and remembered decades from now. The story if pretty by the numbers, but I don't care. Star Wars is by the numbers. There's nothing wrong with a by the numbers story if it's told well, which Avatar does. It tells the story with such visual finesse, such incredible imagination, that I just let it take me away. This is a film that absolutely must be experienced in a theater. Cameron has crafted one of the great movie worlds for us, here. I think I need to see this movie again, in Imax this time.
 
I saw this movie on Thursday night, and damn, I can't stop thinking about it. I'm very anxious to see it again.

I think this is my favourite movie of the year. I don't think I'll ever forget watching it for the first time. Its one of those "remember when Avatar came out" moments.
 
Oh, yeah, the D9 porn was fast. I think the record-holder is Bolt, which was Rule 34ed the day after the first character designs were leaked to the Internet.
 
About D9 or Bolt? Because, let's face it, with the line about "interspecies prostitution" and "I would never fornicate with a fookin'...creature," District 9 was asking for it.
 
Finally saw it, I didn't think that the plot was weak at all, and I saw it in 2D first so that the special effects wouldn't be too distracting to me, now I will go see it in IMAX 3D.

To me it was more like The Last Samurai than Dances with Wolves, but elements of Dances with Wolves are there for sure.

I fully enjoyed those two movies, so throw in some heavy duty sci-fi and you would always have a formula that creates a hit for me.

Highly recommended and rated excellent.
 
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