Avatar (2009 Film)

[Ivramire]

I couldn't get past some parts though.

In the beginning when he first meets the female Navi, I was literally saying ''Please don't let her be a princess of her people and if she is, don't let the blue-people inexplicably decide to expose their royalty to the possibly dangerous stranger for the menial task of showing them 'their ways.'


I also couldn't get past how, right after the protagonist destroyed their ancestral home, exposed them to the humans, betrayed their collective society right after his induction, bedded the future matron who was as good as betrothed to another and indirectly caused her father's/their leader's death, everything was washed clean because he shows up on the big red bird and they adopt him as their lord and saviour, no questions asked.


What I really didn't like though was how they're saved in the end by the animals and the appeal to the planet. Seemed like a cheap way for the Navi to win an otherwise lost battle. A friend of mine compared it to someone crying out "THOR!" in the middle of a pile-up and bolts of lightning then rain down from Heaven, smiting all your enemies.


Disliked how there was no grey area between the Navi and the Humans and the Navi automatically hold the high-ground with no comparable sympatethic characters among the antagonists.


Good graphics though xD

[Hraesvelg]

I couldn't get past some parts though.

In the beginning when he first meets the female Navi, I was literally saying ''Please don't let her be a princess of her people and if she is, don't let the blue-people inexplicably decide to expose their royalty to the possibly dangerous stranger for the menial task of showing them 'their ways.'


I also couldn't get past how, right after the protagonist destroyed their ancestral home, exposed them to the humans, betrayed their collective society right after his induction, bedded the future matron who was as good as betrothed to another and indirectly caused her father's/their leader's death, everything was washed clean because he shows up on the big red bird and they adopt him as their lord and saviour, no questions asked.


What I really didn't like though was how they're saved in the end by the animals and the appeal to the planet. Seemed like a cheap way for the Navi to win an otherwise lost battle. A friend of mine compared it to someone crying out "THOR!" in the middle of a pile-up and bolts of lightning then rain down from Heaven, smiting all your enemies.


Disliked how there was no grey area between the Navi and the Humans and the Navi automatically hold the high-ground with no comparable sympatethic characters among the antagonists.


Good graphics though xD

Well, when your planet is a god, why not have a deus ex machina? It's the Gaia model explicitly depicted.

As far as the other things, what did you expect? This is just pulling from a variety of stories and myths told over the years. It had elements of Dances With Wolves, Ferngully, and Pocahontas...

Seriously, can you name a single absolutely original story?

[Lirange]

Eh, I just expected more I guess. Though, it could just be my horrible eye sight that wasn't able to see the details. I sat all the way at the back and I couldn't read the subtitles.

[cillia]

the graphics were so good me and the other 6 people i saw it with forgot we were even holding popcorn and we were so into the movie we would take a piece of popcorn and just keep it in front of our mouths because we were to into the movie xD

[MikeyG]

I agree with bela. Amazing visuals ... storyline was bleg.. I mean one good action scene? gtfo.

[Hraesvelg]

The last quarter of the movie was balls-to-the-wall action and you say there isn't enough? Wha? I really think I was watching an entirely different movie that some of you.

[A_Forever]

I thought it was awesome.

And about the graphics not being amazing.. WRONG. 40% of the movie is live action.. everything else is CG. It looked soo... real and.. pretty and... ahhhh.

The graphics were drool-able IMO LOLOL

EDIT: And yeahh. 60% wasn't real. Either you weren't paying attention, or you actually thought it was real and therefor you didn't think about it LOL

[Leesa]

Eh, I just expected more I guess. Though, it could just be my horrible eye sight that wasn't able to see the details. I sat all the way at the back and I couldn't read the subtitles.

Asian eyesight

I don't really think I'll like Avatar that much, probably because the commercials.... MCDONALDS AND BURGER KING AND LG PHONES AND BLAHBLAHBLAH all I could hear on TV for a while was Avaattaarr thiss Avvaattarrr thaaatt... but yeah o-o