<p>I saw Avatar on the 17th --one day before the US release-- on a giant IMAX screen. I expected a huge crowd but there were no more than 20 people in the audience. I am not surprised at the huge success of the movie everywhere as this is one amazing movie. While it could have been a bit shorter, it never had truly dull or boring moments. </p>
<p>I found the Na’vi characters especially charming, and even thought that Mo’at (the shaman and Neytiri’s mother) looked a lot more attractive as a Na’vi than in her real life human form. :)</p>
<p>One scene that impressed me was when the young, new chief of the Na’vi (the one jilted by Neytiri) flew up and boldly leaped into the back of the aircraft preparing to drop the big bombs and fought the soldiers hand to hand and defeated nearly all of them before finally being shot down by the last one. He died a courageous hero defending his people.</p>
<p>I saw it with my family last night too. I liked the 3D effect but once a while I had to take the glass off because my head was dizzy. I wonder how the Na’vi could kiss like humans. Thanks God, the couple did not go further than a kiss. I was afraid that my little one would see more bad things.</p>
<p>D went with her friends last night to see Avatar, H and I saw Sherlock Holmes after getting out too late to see UP in the air.
I like the books & had concerns about Ritchie’s take on the character. I should have listened to the little voice when the bulk of the theatre was 16-20 year old boys.
:p.
But I am surprised that a movie about tall green people is doing so well, is there really enough of a story or is it all chases and special effects?</p>
<p>OK, did anyone else think that Jake should have read some history before sending the indigenous people to fight the high-tech invaders with bows and arrows? Good thing the trees had “listened” after all, and sent reinforcements, or he would have singlehandedly caused the extinction of the entire populous (hey, thanks for getting those prairie and seaside folks here so we could wipe them out too!)</p>
<p>Also, if they could live in the prairie and the seaside, why didn’t Jake at least ASK them to consider moving to another tree? Or the bad guys destroy a nearby tree, say, “um, your tree is next month, you might want to move to another tree…”</p>
<p>I mean, they had gone to all the trouble of creating the avatars etc., and then they just say, time’s up - kill them all?</p>
<p>Great effects. But the movie was, in fact, Fern Gully on steroids.</p>
<p>Never has so much technology been employed to tell such a weak story.</p>
<p>I was impressed, though, that in addition to all the effort that was taken to create Pandora and its inhabitants, the filmmakers took the time to make human-Jake’s legs thin, the way a paraplegic’s legs would be. But the very fact that I noticed that detail probably reflects the lack of anything else to pay attention to in the scenes among the humans. At least the scenes among the Na’vi were visually fascinating.</p>
<p>I was amazed by the visual experience…although I thought the story was quite weak. Overall, I liked it, though not enough to break out into applause as many in the audience did. 3D IMAX…WOW. </p>
<p>S and his friend saw it before Christmas (not in IMAX). Did NOT like it…thought it was too “disneyish” with a weak story and mostly bad acting. It’s much softer than than the films he likes (Terminator, Matrix) - Ferngully sounds right on target even though I never saw it! (BTW- s also saw Up in the Air with GF and loved it. We’re there tomorrow!).</p>
<p>I’d read so many negative reviews about the lack of plot, I was actually pleasantly surprised. I thought the story was good enough, and while the message “we need to really see each other” a little obvious, it was still tidily done.</p>
<p>Awesome movie. If you can, watch it in IMAX 3D. We did, but I had to buy our tickets early - the shows sell out. I thought it was very well done, and neagtive reviewers can crawl back into their holes.</p>
<p>H and I agreed - it is *Fern Gully *meets *Aliens<a href=“remember%20the%20robotic%20suit%20Sigourney%20Weaver’s%20character%20used%20to%20fight%20the%20alien?”>/I</a> with a dash of Star Wars and maybe Pochahontas. :)</p>
<p>Humans should have given the Na’vi the Na’vi equivalent of measles or smallpox if they wanted the Na’vi to move away from the unobtainium deposits.</p>
<p>This is SO not a movie that I would ordinarily see (my ideal one is “when Harry met Sally”!) but everyone wanted to see it so we went. Couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed it!!</p>
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