Although the story has been done before, I think James Cameron did a great job with creating all the characters and the world that set the stage for “Avatar.” I’ve heard from several that the movie resembles “Fern Gully”, and although I didn’t see that at first, I see it now. The tree!! I do think that it’s inevitable for human beings to think that the most intelligent life form on another planet does not resemble humans. The na’vi “people” looked so much like humans that we can relate to them but I feel that somehow, somewhere out there, if we were to ever stumble upon another life form, they might not look so human. When the love making “mating” scene was about to occur, I thought to myself, “ooo, I wonder how they were going to approach that”? But of course, just like humans do… (ahah, I thought perhaps what they should’ve done was put their two braids together to create that ja hayloo bond… didn’t happen)
I love the movie as a whole and yes – do plan to see it again. The 3D version is definitely worth seeing again too. I thought there could’ve been more 3D elements added here and there but kind of glad they didn’t over do the 3D either. Everything looked real enough, you could tell that it was cgi but it didn’t look fake – if you know what I mean.
Not trying to stereo type or anything but the na’vi people reminded me of some native African tribe with all their chants, the beads, the dreadlocks, and body paint. This brings me back to my point above where we as human beings feel that even in a world light years away, the ‘people-like’ beings will relate to something we have hear on earth. It wasn’t distracting though, just observable.
Love the details on the creatures, plants, etc. This movie is definitely one of those that will go on the lists of changing the way movies are made/seen/etc. in our future to come. On another note, that Sam Worthington is hot! Can’t recall any major blockbusters that he did but they all start somewhere… and what a great movie to be apart of.
I’m kind of sad that “The last air-bender” movie didn’t come out before this one because you know how they use the name “avatar” in there for aang’s character. Now everyone who doesn’t follow the series might be confused. Or maybe not, but when this movie was coming out – because I follow the series, I was confused. lol. Can’t wait for this movie either – Summer 2010.
ahhh. loved it – will buy it on dvd. a must see!