Avatar ...a rip off?

[Tomwhisky]

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Personally I do not accept this 'left' right' argument at all. For me the film clearly shows the Americans (one must assume this to be the people invading the planet)

to be far right of centre - I would say Nazi even showing no respect for any other culture and complying totally of the white race as far as I could see (granted I did not have the glasses on all the time). I could not see any ethnic races - might be wrong?

I just say that logic should follow not right or left but right and wrong!

[Amethyst_Isle]

name='jaycad']thankfully i did not and don't intend to! if trailers aren't intended to encourage a potential viewer to watch a particular film then what are they for? the trailer for 'avatar' and subsequent reviews informed me that it is not a film that i would like-there's more to watching a film than just appreciating special effects.

Then go and see the film in 3D and appreciate it for more than just the special effects.



The reason I liked this movie in 3D was it did not indulge too much in the 3D technology to show everything in 3D as some sort of toything 'when everything is thrown at you kinda thing' a pure cinema experience imo.

[Bernardo]

My daughter is an avid film - goer, tonight I am minding babe-ee as they are off to see Avatar for the second time. H.M. is fussy so it must have someting.

[Amethyst_Isle]

name='Bernardo']My daughter is an avid film - goer, tonight I am minding babe-ee as they are off to see Avatar for the second time. H.M. is fussy so it must have someting.

To see a film twice must mean it was good

[Tomwhisky]

name='Amethyst_Isle']To see a film twice must mean it was good

Personally it was not my taste - not to say 'it wasn't good', the effects were brillient of course. My point was that a script should follow logic in sense otherwise we enter 'comedy' that is 'illogical' like the Marx Brothers. But nothing funny about Avatar. My point was that the script appeared to be 'anti-American' and this point was made by writer Peter Hitchens so I had to confirm. I thought it was too. I do think Hollywood should market the best of American culture - as it used to do but then I am picky. Why did the film go out of its way to be nasty to the natives? I did not understand the 'transformation' process at all.

[Bernardo]

name='Bernardo']My daughter is an avid film - goer, tonight I am minding babe-ee as they are off to see Avatar for the second time. H.M. is fussy so it must have someting.

Correction on my previous post. When the family trooped in to collect their children, all wearing sunglasses incidentally, after seeing the film, there was an opinion that it was good but overlong and cinema buff HM agreed as she found herself checking her watch during the performance.

[batman]

name='Bernardo'] good but overlong

I'd agree with that.

[Azanti]

I thought it was superb, groundbreaking, visually amazing, even down to artifically lighting the enviroment on the screen, that of course doesn't actually exist.



I think to dismiss it out of hand because its sci-fi or James Cameron is woefully poor.

Anyone waiting for video, I would implore you not to make that mistake and see it on the big screen, the biggest you can find.



On the subject of the film being a re-working if something else. The theme of the destruction of the enviroment / race / ancient people is nothing knew, it wasn't new in Dances With Wolves and has explored in many other movies, long before then (The Emerald Forest, Soldier Blue and many more) and this the case with many films, so, big wow, nothing new there.



I actually think this movie is more likely to get younger generations interested in the enviroment than anything that has come before it.

[Azanti]

I thought it was superb, groundbreaking, visually amazing, even down to artifically lighting the enviroment on the screen, that of course doesn't actually exist.



I think to dismiss it out of hand because its sci-fi or James Cameron is woefully poor.

Anyone waiting for video, I would implore you not to make that mistake and see it on the big screen, the biggest you can find.



On the subject of the film being a re-working if something else. The theme of the destruction of the enviroment / race / ancient people is nothing knew, it wasn't new in Dances With Wolves and has explored in many other movies, long before then (The Emerald Forest, Soldier Blue and many more) and this the case with many films, so, big wow, nothing new there.



I actually think this movie is more likely to get younger generations interested in the enviroment than anything that has come before it.

[Irongiant]

Afraid that I thought it was a load of clichéd, very badly wirtten nonsense. Not impressed at all and I was left wondering what was supposed to be so special about the CGI - it didn't look 'real' to me - very stiff, very obviously fake, especially the facial expressions. I thought I was looking at a computer game most of the time.



But, CGI aside, it was the atrocious script that really let it down. Had it not been for the novelty of the 3D CGI then this would have undoubtedly flopped big-time.



2/10