When I first learned about Avatar I thought “Hey, cool concept” but as the advertising become prevalent I quickly soured. I cannot explain what exactly made me go south on a seemingly cool idea, maybe it was the marketing that made the movie seem borderline cheesy… Well, after much consideration I took a number of co-works to see to move… in IMAX… and 3D.
OH GOD! Seriously, OH GOD!
All the comments on how this was going to change movies were right, if not underplayed. I could easily see how the technology and methods used to produce this movie will change production from this point forward.
Make no mistake, the story was nothing groundbreaking.
At times it was very, very predictable. From about 10 minutes into the film one can easily figure out what will end up happening. Roughly 5 times during the movie I thought to myself “Ok, we’ll see x happen because of this…” and it did. That is not to say the writing was poor by any stretch, it was simply predictable. Also, there were several shots at the political world – specifically the war on terror. The funny thing is the story in and of itself was all that was needed to hammer that point home with grace, they didn’t need to write in the “hit you over the head” type of rhetoric to make their point.
Even with the predictable writing and political preaching the movie was flat out fantastic. Sitting down to the movie one has to wonder if they will buy into what they are seeing – will the mind get past the CGI, will you “believe”? For me, the answer was yes.
Roughly everything about the alien world was believable. A number of times I was sitting in the theater thinking to myself that, indeed, this place exists and such a conflict is taking place. There were no typical CGI issues - bluing, misplaced shadows – everything blended together. The clouds looked as if Jame Cameron plucked them from the sky and put them on film, the plants looked like they were alive, the animals looked flat out realistic for an alien world.
What this movie managed to do that very few have done previously, and have never accomplished on a scale such as this, is to create a believable CGI world that did not look as if it was a cartoon or myopic comic book world. Avatar truly created world and did so on an unbelievable scale.
Like I said, I was skeptical. A close friend even posed the question “Didn’t Jurassic Park accomplish this oh so many years ago?” I thought it was an outstanding point. I didn’t know the answer until I actually saw the movie… no Jurassic Park did not accomplish this…. No one accomplished this.
This is the all around movie experience, even with a story that follows a writers “how to create a typical Hollywood movie” guide. If you have any doubt just give it a chance, and if you have the ability to see it on IMAX and/or 3D do so.
When I first learned about Avatar I thought “Hey, cool concept” but as the advertising become prevalent I quickly soured. I cannot explain what exactly made me go south on a seemingly cool idea, maybe it was the marketing that made the movie seem borderline cheesy… Well, after much consideration I took a number of co-works to see to move… in IMAX… and 3D.
Holy Christ! Seriously, holy Christ! James Cameron now knows what God felt like when he created the universe.
All the comments on how this was going to change movies were right, if not underplayed. I could easily see how the technology and methods used to produce this movie will change production from this point forward.
Make no mistake, the story was nothing groundbreaking.
At times it was very, very predictable. From about 10 minutes into the film one can easily figure out what will end up happening. Roughly 5 times during the movie I thought to myself “Ok, we’ll see x happen because of this…” and it did. That is not to say the writing was poor by any stretch, it was simply predictable. Also, there were several shots at the political world – specifically the war on terror. The funny thing is the story in and of itself was all that was needed to hammer that point home with grace, they didn’t need to write in the “hit you over the head” type of rhetoric to make their point.
Even with the predictable writing and political preaching the movie was flat out fantastic. Sitting down to the movie one has to wonder if they will buy into what they are seeing – will the mind get past the CGI, will you “believe”? For me, the answer was yes.
Roughly everything about the alien world was believable. A number of times I was sitting in the theater thinking to myself that, indeed, this place exists and such a conflict is taking place. There were no typical CGI issues - bluing, misplaced shadows – everything blended together. The clouds looked as if Jame Cameron plucked them from the sky and put them on film, the plants looked like they were alive, the animals looked flat out realistic for an alien world.
What this movie managed to do that very few have done previously, and have never accomplished on a scale such as this, is to create a believable CGI world that did not look as if it was a cartoon or myopic comic book world. Avatar truly created world and did so on an unbelievable scale.
Like I said, I was skeptical. A close friend even posed the question “Didn’t Jurassic Park accomplish this oh so many years ago?” I thought it was an outstanding point. I didn’t know the answer until I actually saw the movie… no Jurassic Park did not accomplish this…. No one accomplished this.
This is the all around movie experience, even with a story that follows a writers “how to create a typical Hollywood movie” guide. If you have any doubt just give it a chance, and if you have the ability to see it on IMAX and/or 3D do so.