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Despite my Gripes - Avatar (SPOILER ALERT)
EDIT: The following gripes I have with this film is not to be taken too seriously, and mainly just nitpicking. More of this will be explained in my review. Enjoy?
I LOVE the action scenes, how the 3D was well-implemented to see more of the universe, and the environment of Pandora. The visuals are PERFECT, enough said. However, some of the dialogue was bad- I mean come on, "I see you"? And there were moments that, to me, was unintentionally funny (more on that later). Some notes of people crying felt TOO over-played and was embarrassing to hear. The performances were good, even if some felt too overplayed. The best were from Stephen Lang (and yes I agree his character was over-the-top but that's what I loved about it), and Zoe Saldana.
Several hours after I watched the film, I kept contemplating on the things that stood out to me. And by stand out I mean moments I found unintentionally funny and questionable while watching Avatar. However, despite my gripes, Avatar has-
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1. Sigourney Weaver's first moment with Jake Sully, she doesn't give a damn if he is crippled, she went hard-ass on him and cursed him out too
2. Sigourney Weaver smoking in a oxygen-filled environment (EDIT: Before I wrote facility, I hope this edit gets my point across) more than once. Thank You For Smoking pointed that one out.
3. Stephan Lang kicking the door to shoot at the escappes and letting everyone almost die out of oxygen. Then after he's shooting, some guy has an oxygen mask for him.
4. That guy from Dodgeball: The Movie being insanely jealous with Jake Sully when he gets to interract with the Na'vi more.
5. Michelle Rodriguez trying to mimic Vasquez from Aliens badly, and this is the third time I've seen her die (Lost, Fast & Furious, and now this) lol.
6. If the humans wanted that "rare mineral" from the Na'vi they couldn't ask? Not once in the movie I recall they didn't do so. Also they blow up their tree fortress which kinda defeats the whole purpose of them being there right? lol I mean they blow that place to smitherins, I highly doubt any of those minerals are in tact.
7. While I was emotionally attached to the Na'vi, Jake Sully and that female chick about to have sex was so incredibly uncomfortable to watch through, I'm sorry.
8. So ponytails makes you connect to the animals? I found this aspect passable but I wondered what if their ponytails were cut off? Now what?
9. Speaking of hair, why did Jake Sully, in Avatar form, had to give himself a mohawk like that other guy towards the end of the film?
10. Jake Sully wants to lead the war for the Na'vi, and he comes to the Holy Tree with a huge-ass bird, and all of the Na'vi are scared and terrorized by his bird lol.
11. Jake Sully talking to Stephen Lang (EDIT:I thought he was a corporal but mixed that up about his ceromony of being a man, and the look from Stephan Lang was priceless- he looked like "Dammit, I want me some Michael Bay action now"
12. If Michelle Rodriguez' character knew she was going to bomb the crap out of that Tree Fortress, why was she there in the first place? And when she was disgraced and left mid-way and the soliders are like "WTH?" I wondered how that went well even more, don't you?
13. Jake Sully, after turning into an Avatar for the first time, looked like some dumb-ass being mystified by who he is. And then doesn't get punished for running out?
14. Sigourney Weaver's Avatar having, I think, sporting a Stanford University T-Shirt. If the Na'vi are almost 10 feet tall, how would she wear such T-Shirt?
15. I was kind of weirded out that Sigourney Weaver was naked in the Holy Tree.
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... some things I also nitpick, like the few instances of Zoe Saldana's acting felt off, again as an example, her crying and whenever she yelled. I guess for the first film of the supposed franchise James Cameron wants, a simple story for everyone so they can more likely be sucked into the universe is justified but sometimes it was too predictable- obviously the biggest predictable element of this movie was, "Will that human screw that hot cat lady?".
Yes the minute the two meet together, you know they will. Sam Wortington's character, Jake Sully, has an important decision to make towards the end of the film and you'll instantly know he's going to go the non-human side. I wished the film played with more of this factor- we should care or worry what his decision will be- but since we don't even have to guess it, this factor is a let-down. This guessing of which side he'll play on is diminished because we're force-fed into thinking one side is GOOD and one side is BAD. I would have loved to see the human side have both sides of Good and Bad, like gray areas. Nope, James Cameron said, the humans are 2/3 bad. I also think James Cameron rushed themes too fast. Jake Sully has a twin brother who was a scientist, and they could have used this theme of "living up to your brother's status" but that's thrown quick just like how we're supposed to feel sympathy for his brother's death in the first place.
This was my first viewing of Avatar (in 3D), and I might see it again. But as of now, these are the problems I have with the film and ultimately it's not the best film of the year or ever. It certainly is ground-breaking in terms of visuals and how we see films in 3-D now but rarely does Hollywood even care about this. James Cameron is still one of those directors that defies film-making and without a doubt one of the best directors of all time. I give AVATAR a 3out of 4.
Avatar rating: high Matinee/low Full Price!!
I LOVE the action scenes, how the 3D was well-implemented to see more of the universe, and the environment of Pandora. The visuals are PERFECT, enough said. However, some of the dialogue was bad- I mean come on, "I see you"? And there were moments that, to me, was unintentionally funny (more on that later). Some notes of people crying felt TOO over-played and was embarrassing to hear. The performances were good, even if some felt too overplayed. The best were from Stephen Lang (and yes I agree his character was over-the-top but that's what I loved about it), and Zoe Saldana.
Several hours after I watched the film, I kept contemplating on the things that stood out to me. And by stand out I mean moments I found unintentionally funny and questionable while watching Avatar. However, despite my gripes, Avatar has-
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1. Sigourney Weaver's first moment with Jake Sully, she doesn't give a damn if he is crippled, she went hard-ass on him and cursed him out too
2. Sigourney Weaver smoking in a oxygen-filled environment (EDIT: Before I wrote facility, I hope this edit gets my point across) more than once. Thank You For Smoking pointed that one out.
3. Stephan Lang kicking the door to shoot at the escappes and letting everyone almost die out of oxygen. Then after he's shooting, some guy has an oxygen mask for him.
4. That guy from Dodgeball: The Movie being insanely jealous with Jake Sully when he gets to interract with the Na'vi more.
5. Michelle Rodriguez trying to mimic Vasquez from Aliens badly, and this is the third time I've seen her die (Lost, Fast & Furious, and now this) lol.
6. If the humans wanted that "rare mineral" from the Na'vi they couldn't ask? Not once in the movie I recall they didn't do so. Also they blow up their tree fortress which kinda defeats the whole purpose of them being there right? lol I mean they blow that place to smitherins, I highly doubt any of those minerals are in tact.
7. While I was emotionally attached to the Na'vi, Jake Sully and that female chick about to have sex was so incredibly uncomfortable to watch through, I'm sorry.
8. So ponytails makes you connect to the animals? I found this aspect passable but I wondered what if their ponytails were cut off? Now what?
9. Speaking of hair, why did Jake Sully, in Avatar form, had to give himself a mohawk like that other guy towards the end of the film?
10. Jake Sully wants to lead the war for the Na'vi, and he comes to the Holy Tree with a huge-ass bird, and all of the Na'vi are scared and terrorized by his bird lol.
11. Jake Sully talking to Stephen Lang (EDIT:I thought he was a corporal but mixed that up about his ceromony of being a man, and the look from Stephan Lang was priceless- he looked like "Dammit, I want me some Michael Bay action now"
12. If Michelle Rodriguez' character knew she was going to bomb the crap out of that Tree Fortress, why was she there in the first place? And when she was disgraced and left mid-way and the soliders are like "WTH?" I wondered how that went well even more, don't you?
13. Jake Sully, after turning into an Avatar for the first time, looked like some dumb-ass being mystified by who he is. And then doesn't get punished for running out?
14. Sigourney Weaver's Avatar having, I think, sporting a Stanford University T-Shirt. If the Na'vi are almost 10 feet tall, how would she wear such T-Shirt?
15. I was kind of weirded out that Sigourney Weaver was naked in the Holy Tree.
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... some things I also nitpick, like the few instances of Zoe Saldana's acting felt off, again as an example, her crying and whenever she yelled. I guess for the first film of the supposed franchise James Cameron wants, a simple story for everyone so they can more likely be sucked into the universe is justified but sometimes it was too predictable- obviously the biggest predictable element of this movie was, "Will that human screw that hot cat lady?".
Yes the minute the two meet together, you know they will. Sam Wortington's character, Jake Sully, has an important decision to make towards the end of the film and you'll instantly know he's going to go the non-human side. I wished the film played with more of this factor- we should care or worry what his decision will be- but since we don't even have to guess it, this factor is a let-down. This guessing of which side he'll play on is diminished because we're force-fed into thinking one side is GOOD and one side is BAD. I would have loved to see the human side have both sides of Good and Bad, like gray areas. Nope, James Cameron said, the humans are 2/3 bad. I also think James Cameron rushed themes too fast. Jake Sully has a twin brother who was a scientist, and they could have used this theme of "living up to your brother's status" but that's thrown quick just like how we're supposed to feel sympathy for his brother's death in the first place.
This was my first viewing of Avatar (in 3D), and I might see it again. But as of now, these are the problems I have with the film and ultimately it's not the best film of the year or ever. It certainly is ground-breaking in terms of visuals and how we see films in 3-D now but rarely does Hollywood even care about this. James Cameron is still one of those directors that defies film-making and without a doubt one of the best directors of all time. I give AVATAR a 3out of 4.
Avatar rating: high Matinee/low Full Price!!
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Comment by Charlton on May 1, 2010 at 7:05pm
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@Amy1601: "Yes it's true. This man has no dick" - Pete Venkman would agree you don't.
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Comment by Army1601 on February 1, 2010 at 12:00pm -
Wow you found ponytails that connect to animals passable??? You know you are really blind ok? The point of that is that everything is connected, a message the movie was constanly telling you. I think another message the movie had applies to you as well, LEARN TO SEE THINGS PROPERLY!
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Comment by William Clarke on January 10, 2010 at 8:06pm -
For #10 they werenot scared of the bird they were scared by the fact jake tamed it. Only a few na'vi in the planets history were able to do that making James a badass mother fucker
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Comment by Kim on January 8, 2010 at 9:52pm -
M-PaoWord if you have the most valuable resource the is worth billions or even trillions. You just kidding yourself ing thinking that other countries and governments would not get involved just to get their piece of the pie. Remember ther countries simliar to America and can back theirs up would be there. Let's not BS about this. The na'vi wouldn't have a chance in hell.
You're talking about shit loads of money here. You best believe other countries, and companies would be there. Here they're doing it here and now to their own people on earth. What makes you or anyone thinke that any company or government would not slaughter countless numbers of people to get what they want.
Think about this now.
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Comment by M-PaoWord on January 8, 2010 at 9:04pm -
@Kim Corporations (not countries) get away with a lot for the sake of profit and governments let them get by because of the money they receive and thinking contrary to that is just fooling yourself. As for other corporations (not countries) becoming involved in extracting unobtanium from Pandora it would be costly to compete with other corporations. 1. Pandora is 6 years travel away from the Earth. 2. You'd have to set up your own separate encampment on the planet/moon. 3. Once you have said encampment you'd need protection offered by either the military, mercenaries or private security forces. That would be pretty costly to not only operate but to compete with others as well, especially in the tough economic times that the Earth seems to be facing hinted at by Jake Sully.
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Comment by Kim on January 8, 2010 at 8:54pm
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To tell you guys the truth Avatar is fantasty/sci-fi half the shit that happened in this movie would never have been allowed in real life. Plus let us remember the teaches of our own history here. If a country or in this case another world has the most valuable resource period. The government itself along with real military woul dhave been there.
Plus there would have been other countries from earth fighting for the same resource who may or may not follow laws. Remember people this was all about money. if the people are welling to kill each other over the ones they had on earth the na'vi would have been fucked pure and simples.
No colors of the world or mother of the universe help us BS. But like I said this is fantasy/sci-fi.
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@Don Panini: I am not uncomfortable with environmental messages in movies (although most Americans I agree can be)- I love WALL-E for example. And just to point out, my gripes are supposed to be not taken too seriously, as I've already said, they are extremely just nitpicking.
@M-PaoWord: I said in my second half of my review that Cameron displays that only 1/3 of the humans in this movie are good while the other 2/3 are bad. And I wished that he could have played up the challenge for Jake Sully to choose which side.
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Comment by M-PaoWord on January 6, 2010 at 9:47pm
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@Don Panini I've noticed that too, as well as others just thinking Avatar is anti-humanity as if they're unwilling to admit humanity can be this bad, if not worse. When I look at this film I see this message that Cameron is pointing out: What is the price of technology and progress? And what James Cameron shows to answer this question is characters like Parker who give up their humanity to achieve economic goals.
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Comment by Don Panini on January 6, 2010 at 9:39pm -
I wasn't talking about you especifically Charlton, but some of your gripes seem irrelevant to the movie as a whole.
I was talking about the cumonass's out there who can only spit out venom when refering to Avatar.
I understand how someone wouldn't like it, but I just can't understand how someone can hate it. Yes, the story is simple, but it gets to the point and gives the message really well, in a beautiful way I might add.
And I really want to understand this unconfort you americans have with enviormental messages in movies. I'm not being racist or xenophobic here, by the way.
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Comment by M-PaoWord on January 6, 2010 at 9:10pm
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Oh and just pointing this out but a lot of people's gripes about this film center on the supposed theme that "humans are evil and na'vi are good". I never got that. What I got was that "corporations are evil" which was something Cameron also expresses in Aliens.
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