I rarely do movie reviews, but when I stand in such strong opposition to the general analysis, I feel I must speak out.
Avatar was a very weak movie. The special effects and graphics were cool, but outside of the 3-D, I did not think it was anything spectacular visually. There have been hundreds of high budget sci-fi and fantasy movies in the last few years with incredible computer graphics; I did not think it really stood out above the rest of those.
The story was awful. I could have told you the entire rest of the story 5 minutes into the movie. So, the main character is going to be implanted as a spy into a world of indigenous people that respect their planet? Wow, I wonder if he won’t become entranched in their ways, fall in love with one of them, effectively become one of them, and take their side in the battles that were sure to come. So, it proceded to go on for 2 hours and 35 minutes more of exactly what was expected storyline-wise.
The rest of the story was weak as well. What started off as an interesting science experiment turned into a cheap video game shoot-em up plot. I was not emotionally moved the entire movie nor was I challenged mentally to handle any sneaky plot twists. And, man were those some unoriginal sci-fi names (“unobtainium”, “pandora”, and “avatar”?!). Looking at the four other billion dollar movies in history (Titanic, LOTR: Return of the King, Dark Knight, PotC) all of them (except maybe “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”) had better story lines than this movie.
The acting was poor enough to make Sigourney Weaver’s performance seem quite good, which is sad. But we cannot fault the actors too much. With so many of the cheesy one-liners in that script there was not much room to escape.
Back to the 3-D. I think the concept is quite cool and it does add an interesting twist to action movies. I last saw a 3D movie back in the late 80′s. Unfortunately, I do not think the 3-D technology improvement in twenty years has been anything monumental. I was expecting more and while it was a fun visual experience, I do not think it was anything extraordinary.
All in all, I think the hype is a bit much and people are too easily swayed by the ability (with much expense) to put this action and graphics into 3-D. If we continue to see more and more 3-D movies, people will look back on this and laugh. How are we so easily swayed by a 25 year old technology trick into thinking a horrible script and acting is an amazing film?
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of course 3d movies are cool too watch that is why we are developing 3d tvs today ,’:
Mmmmmm nanananana is was the best ok gosh dont dis the avatar dude god will be disapointed in you duds .!!
At last someone who sees the film the way I do. Out of every movie I have seen this was the most disappointing . The 3d was amazing but it seemed it was in some scenes but not in other. The plot was rubbish. And the humans being on your side but then being the bad guys 1 that’s just like the newer king kong and 2 I hate humans being the bad guys! All in all avatar was a very naff movie
AVATAR story is shit! its pokahuntas or dancing with wolves redone with CGI,
look the special effects were great, but the characters had no weight and the script is boring
i dont know why so many people love this movie..?? i think because of the amazing graphics people forget about the story and say “wow avatar has amazing spec effects, so its an amazing movie”
Went googling to find examples of bad reviews because my friend didn’t believe me when i said that there were other people like me who did not like this movie and that is how i stumbled onto here!
Honestly though, all in all this movie was not terribly bad. Definitely not good or “brilliant”, but not bad. No, my hatred of this movie stems from the fact that everyone think’s it is a masterpiece. I could sit here all day and list reasons why this movie is garbage. As my English points out before every power point assignment, “Visuals and extras do not make a powerpoint, content does-don’t waste your time with special effects, animations, background, or transitions until your message is perfected.”
You are so right. Sooo right. The whole thing made me think that this turned out to be a ridiculously expensive concept, for what it really was. It seems like the undeveloped fantasy, supposedly innovative, of a boy who has played too much pokemon. And indeed only someone immature and uneducated on movies would find this brilliant.
Cameron had just been lucky enough in his career, to be able to find the money now and make this one true… It is a waste.
PS: Pocahontas was much better, had great music and voiceovers by the actors.
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If you want my opinion, Pandora reminds me of World of Warcraft -the Elf region, I don’t remember its name.
seems like u r big fan of chuck norris
I agree with this and all other negative reviews posted on this page by other people. I especially liked Wills review below about Avatar being ” Dances with Seven Foot Smurfs.” LMAO That comment was hilarious. Even my husband who disagrees with my review on this laughed when I read it to him.