Verdict: While James Cameron set a brand new standard in 3D animation, the storyline still fall short of 'surprises'
You may argue that the story is good, but I beg to differ - you are actually stunned by the top notch graphic created, which is a brand new experience for you and I.
Few things that explain the weak point spotted in the story (Warning: spoiler) :
1) How Jake knew that the 'sticky substance' from the plant is flammable, when he was in the jungle for the first time
2) How did Neytiri get that "Ray Ban-like" goggle when she flew with the flying beast?
3) How naive was the Na'vi clan to accept an "Avatar" to be their clan - knowing that avatar is an avatar, which is not real.
4) Na'vi clan obviously had no hard feeling, knowing that an avatar (Jake) can rule them all, who even had 'hijacked' their god-like flying beast. (It's like, "hey, Na'vi, you all suck, avatar rocks")
5) The happily-ever-after ending is just so old school - the ability to 'transfer' the whole consciousness thing from human to an avatar proves that human technology suck - all you need is the "Tree of Soul" - and they should have used that to attack human in the first place
OK, enough of ranting.
Avatar is still a must watch movie of 2009 and 2010.
Watching once is never enough, you'll definitely feel like watching it twice even in the 3D format (I've yet to do that)
The graphic is stunning, James Cameron had definitely set a new standard in animation - making the scene that's impossible to be filmed real life into this 'animation reality'
(Imagine, he waited more than a decade so that it's 'technologically feasible' to film this movie)
He had open the room of possibilities to the people that 'hey, with animation, you can do more than this"
The story, unfortunately, is still the standard epic-style formula, but I don't blame that - his effort to produce this excellent product compensated that.
The story is easy to understand so, I'll strongly recommend you to watch it. (though I thought 2 hours 45 minutes can actually be shorter)
One line summary of this movie - It's a combination of Star Wars, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Surrogates and maybe some movie about Africa.
Rating:
Graphic: 11/10 (i'm not joking)
Story: 7.5/10
Combined: 9/10
2 Comments
Ehhhhhhh ok just for argument's sake...
3) They didn't accept him or Grace readily. Grace wasn't even allowed back at first. It was coz he lied to say he's a Warrior with Jarhead Clan and they were curious about him and let him in and thru him they let Grace back in.
4) They generally revered whoever who could conquer Toruk. Remember how she said her great grandfather (or her forefather or sth like that) was a Toruk Makto. So I think they were AWED and they REVER and worship Toruk Makto. And I guess he's actually banking on this fact to get back into the clan!
But yes story is a bit cheesy but damn I want a Toruk to ride to work everyday!
And I watched 3 times (shit damn loser la me!)
the bottom line is.. story is cheesy but the graphic is gonna make ppl complain less bout the story!
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