<p>I saw the movie last night with my kids, enjoyed it very much, was blown away by the visual impact and all, but at the end how did Neytiri know to go to the Earthlings’ trailer, find the real Jake and put a mask on him???</p>
<p>She knew about the link system from the whole incident with Sigourney Weaver’s character (whose name I can’t remember).</p>
<p>I have the same question, and still don’t remember the incident with Grace. Please remind me.</p>
<p>I saw the movie last night with H and younger S, and enjoyed it, too, though I thought it could have been edited to make it a half hour shorter.</p>
<p>Grace’s human body was dying so the Sculley, with his GF’s help, brought her to the holy place to try to put her soul/consciousness into the Avatar body. It was implied that everyone (Avatar and Sculley) knew what had to be done. Grace was too weak to complete the transference but that is how/when Sculley and the Avatar people learned how it could be done (transfer).</p>
<p>But how did she know about the trailer and that Scully’s human body was there? That’s what I don’t understand. I never remember any scene in which the Avatar people learned about how the humans used the machine in the trailer that allowed them to transfer their consciousness to an avatar body. There also wasn’t any scene that explained how the Avatar woman recognized Sculley in his human form.</p>
<p>I really did feel that it was implied, when they carried both Grace bodies to the diety. The people all together carried both bodies (human and Avatar). It was implied that Sculley brought them to the trailer to recover Grace’s human form.</p>
<p>Oh, now I get it. Thanks!</p>
<p>OK, I guess it’s reasonable to assume that in the effort to save Grace some explanations were rendered and details given that didn’t need to be shown on-screen. NSM, I agree about the length; the whole movie ran nearly 3 hours. Viewers should be advised not to buy the large-size drink on the way in to see it! Still, it was a great movie experience and I’m not usually that big a movie fan.</p>
<p>Also get to the movie early. H, S and I got there 10 mins. before the movie was scheduled to start, and we had to sit rows apart from each other. I think it sold out.</p>
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This made me laugh. I was OK, but my S was squirming in his seat for the last half hour, and rushed out of the theater the second the credits played.</p>
<p>They started our movie early, with no credits or opening screen or anything. So yes do get there early. Also no need to stay for the credits - no goodies at the end. So what I want to know is what the scientific explanation for the floating mountains could be. They sure looked cool though! It was gorgeous though, I loved the glow in the dark plants.</p>
<p>There were lots of homages to other movies! Was anyone else looking for Gandolf to be leading the herd of Navi mounted on the not-horses with his bright wand blazing? And I presume the dragons were supposed to reference Anne McCaffery’s dragons of Pern. And Dances with Wolves for sure, some more Lord of the Rings, etc. Loved the visuals; not so crazy about the heavy handedness of the last half hour. But really cool to watch!</p>
<p>The floating mountains were probably related to Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back. Or wasn’t there a floating city in Gulliver’s Travels? It’s all in the vortex (or vortices?)…</p>
<p>It was not at all crowded on the 24th - that’s when we always go to the hit movies. We got there early and sat through several trailers - apparently the Gladiator (Russel Crowe) is going to be Robin Hood. DS was thrilled with the Prince of Persia trailer which he had only seen online.</p>
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<p>Well, they were in love, so I assumed she sort of looked into Sculley’s human eyes and sensed he was the same person.</p>
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<p>Overall, I thought the movie was “Dances with Wolves” meets “The Matrix.”</p>
<p>…with a splash of Ewok fighting the Empire from Star Wars.</p>
<p>Great movie–all the reviews I read were not gushing, so I was a little concerned if the movie was any good. But I liked it! I knew Mother “Earth” would come to the rescue–I figured it would be with a biblial flood or something like that.</p>
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<p>The story is basically the same concept as Disney’s Pocahontas.</p>
<p>Come on, you guys are kidding, right?</p>
<p>Oh and did you notice – ET did not go to the bathroom once during the whole movie, and hey, how did Harrison Ford know that a big Sasquatch like Chewbacca the Wookiee could pilot a spacecraft (yes, yes, I know the life debt and all), and how come only some of the people that got strafed in “Close Encounters” got a sunburn, and how come not everyone who wore The Ring became Gollum, and somebody should tell Dr. Seuss that Kitty O’Sullivan Krauss can’t have a big balloon swimming pool over her house, because that just wouldn’t work…</p>
<p>No really, come on, you can’t be serious – we are talking about GIANT BLUE PEOPLE FROM AN IMAGINARY PLANET, and you are worried about “how does Blue Girl know about the oxygen mask?” Hey, how about this – they had the conversation before, you know “if and when I need it, this is what you do” and it didn’t make it into the film? Or she had a vision from the Ancestor Tree, or she’s just a naturally gifted First Responder?</p>
<p>In terms of homages, James Cameron joyfully and gleefully ripped off from everyone, because that’s what you do: huge huge things from Dinotopia, The Iron Giant, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, everything Disney, Lost, Alien, Coma, you name it.</p>
<p>And he brought in a film that is just totally freaking awesome. As someone in my family said as we were leaving the theater – Everyone in Hollywood making a Sci Fi film right now is saying ‘Oh crap.’ Because JC just raised the bar to a really high notch.</p>
<p>(come on, do you all still have a pulse? Sense of wonder completely gone?)</p>
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<p>I can answer that one. It was clearer in the book. Gollum is what Hobbits turn into after many centuries of owning and wearing the Ring. A few minutes or years won’t do it. Bilbo had the Ring for several decades and was beginning to get a little Gollumish - which was one of he reasons he needed to give it up. </p>
<p>Large and powerful people such as Elrond, Galadriel, or Gandalf would have turned into something more akin to Sauron if they had owned the Ring for a long time - become the new Dark Lord. Weak and humble creatures like Hobbits merely became wasted and wretched.</p>
<p>Yes, yes, I know, coureur. Point being: if you only saw the movie it was unclear. Right?</p>
<p>If you clutter up a movie with every little expository detail, that’s just tedious. The slowest things in Avatar were the expository bits, like the video blog and the Marine pep talk. Not needed! Incredible, imaginative epic views of Na’Vi – more like this, please!</p>
<p>About the islands in the sky. They are on the planet to mine “unobtanium”. Remember the spinning floating thing the CEO guy has on his desk? I assume the islands are made of that.</p>
<p>Avatar is doing amazingly at the box office as time goes on and actually had its biggest day yet yesterday a week after opening. It’s normal for the Christmas vacation to bring in lots of people all week but the Saturday growing from last weekend is very unusual. I’m not aware of such a huge release acting like this since… Titanic.
[Avatar</a> (2009) - Daily Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo](<a href=“http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=avatar.htm]Avatar”>Avatar - Box Office Mojo)</p>
<p>Compare to Star Trek, which started the same and showed a typical trajectory after release.
[Star</a> Trek (2009) - Daily Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo](<a href=“http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=startrek11.htm]Star”>Star Trek - Box Office Mojo)</p>
<p>When the hammerhead rhinos started charging, the first thing that popped into my head was “it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”.</p>