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So we went to a matinee showing of Avatar in 3D yesterday. That's the Sci-Fi Avatar, not The Last Airbender. Overall, it was exactly what I thought it would be, and therefore I came away satisfied.
Plot was about what you'd expect. Step-by-step rewritten from dozens of other stories you've already read or watched. No twists, nothing at all unpredicted from the beginning. Seriously; you've seen the movie Dances With Wolves? (The movie, not the book, the ending was changed for the movie.) Right? Ok, you know the plot.
What? You don't remember Dances With Wolves? Oh, alright. Soldier (Marine, in this case) gets sent to outpost in the middle of nowhere (Planet Pandora). He is assigned to a science crew gathering info and learning about natives and native wildlife. He ends up living with the natives. He predictably "goes native", and points up all the horriblebad about our greedy, planet-stripping, consumerist, self-centered culture in contrast to the Eden-like native culture. Also, he likes the native girl.
I told you you know the plot already. So lets get to why you really went to see this flick. It's pretty. It's really pretty. Go ahead and insert here all the trite phrases along the lines of "visually stunning" you can think up in the next 15 seconds. There you go. I was, however, not impressed with the 3-D. My brain already makes things 3-D and it does not process the fake movie 3-D for crap. I ended up watching the movie without the glasses, because it was actually less blurry that way. This does seem to be a fault in my brain, and not the movie, however, as both of the people I went with watched with the glasses. "The 3-D was really understated," says Bruce. This does mean that 3-D has progressed to the point that you can view it without the glasses though, unlike earlier movies where the dual images were just flat un-watchable. I had a slight headache at the end of the film, but that's pretty much par for the course for me with any theater movie, because of the insane volume levels, so I'm not blaming that on the 3-D.
My one complaint? What nerd-boy decided it was necessary to give the fighter-mechs giant Bowie knives? I mean, really? Obviously, the only purpose for this decision was so that you can have the mech-knife-fight scene, it serves absolutely no other function.
So. Go see it, but go knowing that you're seeing it for the pretty, not the plot.
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endotoxin, you're not the only one with some stomach heaves from vertigo. There was a woman trying to vomit quietly in the restroom afterward. No, the woman wasn't me.
Plot was about what you'd expect. Step-by-step rewritten from dozens of other stories you've already read or watched. No twists, nothing at all unpredicted from the beginning. Seriously; you've seen the movie Dances With Wolves? (The movie, not the book, the ending was changed for the movie.) Right? Ok, you know the plot.
What? You don't remember Dances With Wolves? Oh, alright. Soldier (Marine, in this case) gets sent to outpost in the middle of nowhere (Planet Pandora). He is assigned to a science crew gathering info and learning about natives and native wildlife. He ends up living with the natives. He predictably "goes native", and points up all the horriblebad about our greedy, planet-stripping, consumerist, self-centered culture in contrast to the Eden-like native culture. Also, he likes the native girl.
I told you you know the plot already. So lets get to why you really went to see this flick. It's pretty. It's really pretty. Go ahead and insert here all the trite phrases along the lines of "visually stunning" you can think up in the next 15 seconds. There you go. I was, however, not impressed with the 3-D. My brain already makes things 3-D and it does not process the fake movie 3-D for crap. I ended up watching the movie without the glasses, because it was actually less blurry that way. This does seem to be a fault in my brain, and not the movie, however, as both of the people I went with watched with the glasses. "The 3-D was really understated," says Bruce. This does mean that 3-D has progressed to the point that you can view it without the glasses though, unlike earlier movies where the dual images were just flat un-watchable. I had a slight headache at the end of the film, but that's pretty much par for the course for me with any theater movie, because of the insane volume levels, so I'm not blaming that on the 3-D.
My one complaint? What nerd-boy decided it was necessary to give the fighter-mechs giant Bowie knives? I mean, really? Obviously, the only purpose for this decision was so that you can have the mech-knife-fight scene, it serves absolutely no other function.
So. Go see it, but go knowing that you're seeing it for the pretty, not the plot.
Oh, and
endotoxin, you're not the only one with some stomach heaves from vertigo. There was a woman trying to vomit quietly in the restroom afterward. No, the woman wasn't me.
