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The serious review of Avatar
Dec. 31st, 2009 11:10 amI give it an 8 out of 10!
The story was not as thin as I'd been led to expect, but it was still fairly thin. Good enough for an action movie, sure. It reminded me, superficially, of H. Rider Haggard's She, with much less developed characters, and an everyman lunkhead as the hero, instead of a polymath.
The 3D was impressive. For the first time, one got a sense of how much space the various actors displaced. Sigourney Weaver, for example, is six feet tall. In 2D, this is much less noticeable.
The world was a combination of Roger Dean's landscapes and Wayne Barlowe's animals, in full motion and large as life. I loved it.
The Nav'i did not seem to fit in with the life on their world. They looked as alien as the humans. Many of the other creatures on the planet had six or eight limbs (or more), and they all seemed to have seperate orifices for breathing and vocalization/eating. The Nav'i were blue Masai warriors with tails. They were essentially human. I'm fine with that - they still looked marvellous. I'd have preferred they'd not have taken their visual/fashion cues from an existing human culture.
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The story was not as thin as I'd been led to expect, but it was still fairly thin. Good enough for an action movie, sure. It reminded me, superficially, of H. Rider Haggard's She, with much less developed characters, and an everyman lunkhead as the hero, instead of a polymath.
The 3D was impressive. For the first time, one got a sense of how much space the various actors displaced. Sigourney Weaver, for example, is six feet tall. In 2D, this is much less noticeable.
The world was a combination of Roger Dean's landscapes and Wayne Barlowe's animals, in full motion and large as life. I loved it.
The Nav'i did not seem to fit in with the life on their world. They looked as alien as the humans. Many of the other creatures on the planet had six or eight limbs (or more), and they all seemed to have seperate orifices for breathing and vocalization/eating. The Nav'i were blue Masai warriors with tails. They were essentially human. I'm fine with that - they still looked marvellous. I'd have preferred they'd not have taken their visual/fashion cues from an existing human culture.
( Minor Spoilers )
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