In other words, How was the story? or is it just a special effects movie?
kinda movie. Predictable at times, with a few twists thrown in. The way they shot the characters was waay cool - and as a result the CGI characters look and act almost lifelike - the girl's facial movements were dead on like a 17 year ol' that's just been told she has to stay in, tonight! The convergence line of CGI and live shots is not so obvious but the CGI still has a ways to go before you're convinced you're seeing it as it really is, but.... for me, the bottom line is seat-time.Boy meets girl, girl saves boy from little monsters, boy mets momma and dad, dad's not sure, but mom's got a feeling that boy is important... and he is...
...4. Flop in chair and turn off reality filter...
I wish I could do that.
I liked Grace's line "... you'll go blind..."
I WAS enjoying the movie to THAT point... I actually groaned out loud because that ONE stupid shot just ruined the whole movie!
I see a lot of new movies that rely on the Graphics to make the movie good.
I was afraid to see it because of that.
In other words, How was the story? or is it just a special effects movie?
OH well... I hope that AVATAR doesn't violate the 'plausibility principle' too badly... if it looks right it works...
Saw it a few days ago, and it is well worth the ticket price (go for the 3D screening if at all possible).
About the only scenes that violated the "plausibility principle" badly enough to temporarily take me out of the experience concerned the "floating mountains" on the Na'vi home planet of Pandora. These looked like huge (small mountain-sized) masses of rock and soil that did just that--floated in the atmosphere, tethered to the planet and each other by what looked to be bundles of vines and tree roots. A very cool visual effect, and the setting for some great scenes. But these mountains, obviously in a low-gravity environment, also had WATERFALLS on them, which appeared to be functioning as they would in 1G!
It passed my test:
1. Buy ticket
2. Buy mondo bucket of popcorn
3. Buy Gutbuster cup of soda
4. Flop in chair and turn off reality filter
5. Come out of theater thinking, that was kewl!
One way that would explain this and make the movie plausible, is if the mineral being mined was capable of anti-gravity effects. This would justify the tremendous expenses of an interstellar mining operation and would also explain the floating mountains.
My off-the-cuff explanation was that Pandora was a moon of a large gas giant, and the gravity of the giant kept these mountains afloat (only on this side of the planet, of course). I realize this has lots of holes in it, like the waterfalls, and apparent gravity on the mountains, and so on, but it sounds cool. Maybe combined with the localized gravitational effects of unobtainium?One way that would explain this and make the movie plausible, is if the mineral being mined was capable of anti-gravity effects. This would justify the tremendous expenses of an interstellar mining operation and would also explain the floating mountains.
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