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so it was discussed in a couple different threads but since it came out i haven't talked to anyone about it, nor seen any reviews. (if there is another thread out there please delete this one mods)
so was it good? too long? worth seeing in the theater? poor story line?
what the scoop :mace:
My family loved it. Enough action for the boys, enough of a love story type line for the ladies. Here are a couple of reviews that I pulled up online. It really is worth seeing
Avatar Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
Avatar :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
Review: 'Avatar' delivers on the hype - CNN.com
Avatar -- Film Review
Excellent movie, but a touch too long (around 3 hours)
IT's one of those scenarios where removing scenes would make the movie worse/more obscure/less interesting, but if you don't remove them it's too long...
Lesser of two evils, leaving the movie long
It was still AWESOME though.
Saw it in 3D and loved it. 3 hours? Come on. It feels like 1.
Thoroughly enchanting. The closest any movie has got to making me feel like I've been transported to another world. See it in 3D, ideally on an Imax screen.
Wonderful!My 16 yr old son and I liked it immensely.Intend to watch it again someday.
My lady and I enjoyed it. IMAX 3D! Worth the $14 each, IMO.
I haven't seen it. My thinking was blue men are so XXth century...
Pedestrian script, but otherwise great fun.
Oh really? Awesome. As a pedestrian, I guess I'm going to like this movie!Quote:
Originally Posted by xman
To paraphrase a review I saw somewhere, in ten years, when such special effects are the norm, nobody is going to look back at this movie with the affection one might have for Star Wars, or The Matrix, or other groundbreaking special effects movies that do have a good story.
On the other hand, the story is good enough, and the eye-candy is phenomenal. Blew me away in 2-D, can't imagine what the 3-D is like.
I went with my girlfriend and saw it at the IMAX in London, and we both thought it was great!
The storyline is certainly not as poor as the critics would have you believe, in fact I rather enjoyed it.
Its kind of a modern day Pocahontas, where the soldier joins the tribal girl in the forest and she teaches him how the tribe lives and so on. I didnt think it was a bad story line at all.
The effects are awesome and its definately worth seeing in the cinema. It is quite long as well, so make sure you go to the bathroom before it starts...!
I dont think its too long though, and with the 3D you get so into it that you dont notice the length at all.
Absolutely brilliant I thought, and I'd go and see it again in a flash.
Hee hee hee...Pocahontas.
(FYI, I WILL be seeing it, haven't yet.)
It is quite real. The last time I saw a 3D movie was The Creature From the Black Lagoon. They were those old blue/red glasses, but this is substantially different. Very real. The only thing which made it unlike IRL 3D for me is the fact that I was a slave to the camera's focus, I couldn't focus independently on what I wanted to. Well used effect too. Nothing too cheesy like things flying out at you, which only points out the limitations in the effect anyhow, why do that at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by northpaw
Very good for the special effects, if you want the script you might as well rent Dances With Wolves. I told my wife they could have saved about 300 million by just using real cowboys and Indians. Once this level of effects becomes the norm it will be forgotten.
the point of Avatar was to be pretty, so the story is pretty safe. Remember that 3D is new, and they had to get people to shell the extra for it. With this people just remember how pretty the movie looks, the guys tell their friends how sweet the effects are, and the girls tell their friends that there was enough love story to be worth seeing. Had they taken a risk, like have the humans leave and then glass the planet from orbit, it would have sunk the boat, and possibly set back the continuation of 3D Movies. Also they are planning on 3D saving the film industry, which is smart, it means that there will be a reason to shell out theater prices to go see films that are going to be different than what you can get at home. They wanna keep they're jobs, they have to change the market model.
See it , its shiny.
Really beautiful work, ground breaking cinamatography, very simplistic story line that actually desends to charicature in some places. Don't expect great art or you will be disapointed. I didn't and I like it a lot.
well i am now pumped to see it and yet i will probably wait as i don't have an Imax anywhere near me so my 37 inch screen at home will do just fine. plus my local cinema 6 is really uncomfortable so to sit for 3 hours is just wrong. the closest alternative is an hour away so waiting seems inevitable.
its a shame too as i have never been to an Imax nor seen a movie in 3D.
My Partner and I saw it in 3D, for once a sci fi with really well defined characters, not just rely on special effects. Will stand watching again. Really enjoyed it.
Cheers
I don't watch movies often at all, but this was a good flic and I do like sci-fi fantasy type stuff.