James Cameron has made another perfect Hollywood blockbuster. A film that presents immersive, visual splendor, technological evolution, an allegory as old as the hills, cardboard-cutout characters and most importantly: the beginning of an immensely successful franchise!
Avatar is a lot of fun to watch specially if you watch it in 3D. The paradise created by the movie makers on the island of Pandora (BTW, Pandora! really? As the best name you could come up with?) feels gorgeous but not necessarily a place that has any chance at surviving a Darwinian evolution without of course the help of a filmmaker's love. Na'vi or the people who inhabit the planet are for some reason very blue and very tall and of course very pre-industrial revolution. And since Mr. Cameron isn't going to leave anything to imagination, these characters connect to their nature quite literally. They plug-in to their trees, horses and other stuff very similar to how Apple's mag-safe power adapter clicks to a laptop. It is kind of neat though and might actually be the only thing new the movie offers.
Just like most things these days I found it about 20 minutes too long -- just long enough for the newly designed and upgraded 3D glasses to give you a headache even though it is claimed that they don't.
I really wish we were living in a world where I wouldn't have to endure Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5. Whatever fond memory I have of this fairy tale is all I will have to deal with. However, harboring that thought is like being a Na'vi.
Avatar is a lot of fun to watch specially if you watch it in 3D. The paradise created by the movie makers on the island of Pandora (BTW, Pandora! really? As the best name you could come up with?) feels gorgeous but not necessarily a place that has any chance at surviving a Darwinian evolution without of course the help of a filmmaker's love. Na'vi or the people who inhabit the planet are for some reason very blue and very tall and of course very pre-industrial revolution. And since Mr. Cameron isn't going to leave anything to imagination, these characters connect to their nature quite literally. They plug-in to their trees, horses and other stuff very similar to how Apple's mag-safe power adapter clicks to a laptop. It is kind of neat though and might actually be the only thing new the movie offers.
Just like most things these days I found it about 20 minutes too long -- just long enough for the newly designed and upgraded 3D glasses to give you a headache even though it is claimed that they don't.
I really wish we were living in a world where I wouldn't have to endure Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5. Whatever fond memory I have of this fairy tale is all I will have to deal with. However, harboring that thought is like being a Na'vi.