I had heard universal acclaim from Avatar but ended up watching it on DVD rather than on the big screen. Avatar, as of October 2010, is the highest grossing movie of all time.
I was awed by, as was most everybody else, by the cool, amazing, dazzling and superb special effects that were so captivating. Avatar tells the story of a group of 10 foot high blue tribesman, called the Na’vi, who live on the planet Pandora in the future. As is in a few other science fiction films the humans are the bad guys who have come to destroy the Na’vi home world for minerals and to get even more filthy rich. But one paralyzed soldier sees good in the Na’vi when he gets his own super cool Na’vi avatar to join the Na’vi sort of as a double agent type guy. At first he doesn’t fit in with the rest of the group, but he and another female Na’vi fall in love and join together to get everyone else to fight the humans.
Avatar has got a too familiar story to make it something completely new and original. I don’t see why Cameron could have made a few tweaks to the story, but apparently he was concentrated more on the visual and special effects (kudos again). Then again this does make the movie a little less confusing to a few viewers.
Avatar has renewed interest into the science fiction genre upgrading filmmaking to a new level. Avatar reportedly took like 15 years or so to make—Cameron could have made it after finishing up Titanic but chose to wait until he could get the technology necessary to make the movie.
Grade: B
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