Lately the Avatar hype has been impossible to avoid, and I have myself been drenched in the giant pile of movie posters and brochures almost outshining the New Moan hype... Sorry New Moon hype.
Short about the plot and how they thought of it;
In a nutshell, this is a rather clichéd storyline, another boy meets girl, love, drama and boingo moingo cliché-tastic. Our protagonist is a wheelchair bound ex-marine called Jake Sully. His scientist brother gets murdered, and Jake is offered the chance to take his place and travel to a planet very far away called Pandora. There, he's given the mission along with some other people to try and convince the natives, called the Na'vi, to move from their homes because the humans are greedy and wants to mine for a very precious metal to send back and sell at earth for sh*tloads of cash. To do this he must control something called an Avatar, which is a biomechanic-majingo thing, created with a mix of human and Na'vi DNA, so that he can not only survive the planets toxic air but also be able to infiltrate the Na'vi.
Of course, Jake screws up on the first mission and gets lost in the harsh and dangerous djungle of Pandora, only to be found and rescued by the beautiful Na'vi, Neytiri. He gets accepted as a member of her Na'vi tribe, and learns their culture. Surprise, surprise, they fall in love, and he has to choose sides, either the gorgeous, fantastic Na'vi or the greedy b*tch mean humans.
Let me tell you this before I get into the core-digging of the movie;
This movie is so pretty it tickled my artistic and creative braincells so much that I had an urge to run out of the theater, grab pen and paper and sketch until my fingers bled. The CGI is simply amazingly well done, it's just fantastic on that part overall.
Now the rest. The cliché story of this movie is so overdone, I simply try to look away from that and instead focus on the content and importance of the boy-girl-forbidden romance majingo. Surprisingly, this romance and relationship has a depth, they grow together and learn from eachother, which makes this love believeable. Most of the movie is focused on Jake's time with the Na'vis, sometimes popping in a scene where his superiors at the human base are discussing how to solve the situation, but still more is on his experience with the Na'vi tribe(and Neytiri). Plus points to Avatar for that.
There is one thing that bothered me after I'e watched the movie, and that is he lack of backstory and base. For instance, the situation on earth is never thoroughly explained and that bugged me, because I wanted to know. Things like that were mentioned, but, as weird as it may sound, I like it when I get to know such things in detail. Also, I'm not sure if it was mentioned or not, I don't remember it either way, but I didn't even know what year it was. Just annoying to me.
So what did I think of Avatar then?
It's by no means a bad movie, it's a good movie. Not a brilliant, astounding movie, but a good movie, worth watching. I do feel that maybe, just maybe, I would've enjoyed it better as a book.
Thanks for reading.
/Tua W
Short about the plot and how they thought of it;
In a nutshell, this is a rather clichéd storyline, another boy meets girl, love, drama and boingo moingo cliché-tastic. Our protagonist is a wheelchair bound ex-marine called Jake Sully. His scientist brother gets murdered, and Jake is offered the chance to take his place and travel to a planet very far away called Pandora. There, he's given the mission along with some other people to try and convince the natives, called the Na'vi, to move from their homes because the humans are greedy and wants to mine for a very precious metal to send back and sell at earth for sh*tloads of cash. To do this he must control something called an Avatar, which is a biomechanic-majingo thing, created with a mix of human and Na'vi DNA, so that he can not only survive the planets toxic air but also be able to infiltrate the Na'vi.
Of course, Jake screws up on the first mission and gets lost in the harsh and dangerous djungle of Pandora, only to be found and rescued by the beautiful Na'vi, Neytiri. He gets accepted as a member of her Na'vi tribe, and learns their culture. Surprise, surprise, they fall in love, and he has to choose sides, either the gorgeous, fantastic Na'vi or the greedy b*tch mean humans.
Let me tell you this before I get into the core-digging of the movie;
This movie is so pretty it tickled my artistic and creative braincells so much that I had an urge to run out of the theater, grab pen and paper and sketch until my fingers bled. The CGI is simply amazingly well done, it's just fantastic on that part overall.
Now the rest. The cliché story of this movie is so overdone, I simply try to look away from that and instead focus on the content and importance of the boy-girl-forbidden romance majingo. Surprisingly, this romance and relationship has a depth, they grow together and learn from eachother, which makes this love believeable. Most of the movie is focused on Jake's time with the Na'vis, sometimes popping in a scene where his superiors at the human base are discussing how to solve the situation, but still more is on his experience with the Na'vi tribe(and Neytiri). Plus points to Avatar for that.
There is one thing that bothered me after I'e watched the movie, and that is he lack of backstory and base. For instance, the situation on earth is never thoroughly explained and that bugged me, because I wanted to know. Things like that were mentioned, but, as weird as it may sound, I like it when I get to know such things in detail. Also, I'm not sure if it was mentioned or not, I don't remember it either way, but I didn't even know what year it was. Just annoying to me.
So what did I think of Avatar then?
It's by no means a bad movie, it's a good movie. Not a brilliant, astounding movie, but a good movie, worth watching. I do feel that maybe, just maybe, I would've enjoyed it better as a book.
Thanks for reading.
/Tua W
