So I finally got around to watch Avatar and did so in 3D which I think was a wise choice. So I didn’t go into the cinema with high expectations, I kind of knew what to expect going in. The movie wasn’t going to be a riveting storytelling masterpiece and the plot would be childish and heavy-handed and that’s exactly what I got. The story has been ridiculed and dissected in length so I can’t be bothered with it in this post.
So the effects where great and probably the best that has been seen on the big screen so far, but the 3D took a while to get used too. The pictures where blurry at the edges and there were so instances when they used shaky cam effects giving you POV. This had me worried as I have trouble from shaky cam effects and similar effects they make me motion sick and I have walked out of movie theatres before when It became too much for me too handle.
The story was very predictable and all in all well-told, no obvious storytelling mistakes. The effects where good probably the best I have seen on the big screen. I’m curious to see where the reinvented 3D will go from here, as most of the new movies will be in 3D from now on. And I have read about the new computer monitors and TV’s that will use the new 3D technology for home use, but they are very expensive but are predicted to drop rapidly in price towards the end of the year.
So I give the movie a 3 out of 5 rating or at 7 out of 10, this due to it was a well told story and not many obvious mistakes. So this blog post I stared it 3 weeks ago but anyhow here it is just to finish up my drafts.
My next project is to do a little write-up on the scenario “Ghost Light” that I ran last Friday and finished it in one sitting, even though I dragged it out a little, could probably have finished it a bit earlier.
Stupid stuff never cease to amaze me and the latest movie craze after Twilight has taken the world by storm. This move is on track to break every box office record and have already alienated the catholic church and is responsible for killing people. Why isn’t movies banned or have health warnings at least. Watching Avatar can lead to you being shunned by the church, dieing in the cinema or committing suicide from not living in a blue fantastic world. Ever since Capt. Kirk nailed the green chick on TOS we have always wanted to have sex with strangely colored alien chicks, right? And no we get depressed from seeing it on the big screen and commit suicide? Well the article didn’t say that it was from lack of alien sex that leads to depression, but adlib that part.
“Ever since I went to see ‘Avatar’ I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na’vi made me want to be one of them. I can’t stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it,” Mike posted. “I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in ‘Avatar.’ “
“When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed … gray. It was like my whole life, everything I’ve done and worked for, lost its meaning,” Hill wrote on the forum. “It just seems so … meaningless. I still don’t really see any reason to keep … doing things at all. I live in a dying world.”
The cure for the Avatar blues is to play the video game, discuss on the Avatar forums, download the soundtrack this in addition to talking and hanging out with real people WTF What is this world coming to! Don’t commit suicide play our awesome video game instead…
There is apparently a avatar sex scene that’s going to be included in the DVD release and that has spurred a plethora of spoofs on the Internet. Here is the church critizism of the movie:
The Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticizing James Cameron’s 3-D blockbuster for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion — a notion the pope has warned against. They call the movie a simplistic and sappy tale, despite its awe-inspiring special effects.
Most significantly, much of the Vatican criticism was directed at the movie’s central theme of man vs. nature.
L’Osservatore said the film “gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature.” Similarly, Vatican Radio said it “cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium.”
“Nature is no longer a creation to defend, but a divinity to worship,”
Haven’t seen the film yet so I cant comment on the claims but guys its just a movie and you should take it at face value. The film is probably visually stunning and the story secondary and the message is be nice to mother nature. One book that comes to mind is The second of the Ender books and the connection to nature. I think Orson Scott Card is a tremendously talented writer and storyteller but I don’t share his religious beliefs at all, he apparently has some really twisted beliefs and morals. I haven’t read up on his personal life just because I don’t care and want to enjoy his works untainted. Although I haven’t read his christian historic novels that he has written over the last 10 or so years, stayed away from those thinking I wouldn’t like them no matter how talented and good an author he is.
So you kids play the Avatar video game to stay alive and don’t flirt with nature because the pope said so! *glass breaking*
