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Very true, I didn't find the story much unique nor very creative, the only good thing about is the 3D and the visual effects. I still think LOTR trilogy is the greatest movie I have every seen so far. My overall impression about avatar: not bad.

^^ so you prefer to wait months and watch it on a small screen just to save 10$?
avatar should be watched in 3D in a movie theater, or not watched at all, coz avatar is all about the experience, and not about the story.

i did not like the movie at all, childish movie i dunno how this cartoon akhad hal add dajje, anyways i hate it mostly because they killed the pilot girl(michelle rodriguez), why does she always has to die? they always kill her in lost, fast furious, resident evil.. poor girl

The story is indeed very flat with almost no depth. It's good for your popcorn :)
However, here are some of the things I noticed about the movie:

- The gaia thing going on with the indigenous tribe with the tree and them storing their memories there. It looks a lot like the internet.

- The living in the trees: it really got to me, and I want to genetically engineer trees so that they get habitable soon [not happening in reality].

- That bad corporate guy. He felt something at one point in the movie when there were kids involved.

- The whole avatar concept looks a lot like it was taken from a gaming idea. [WarCraft or some soft of something similar]

- The army thing. How they got them all hotted up and so on. And the public politics that can manipulate the masses.

So yeah, there isn't anything profoundly deep in the movie [I don't know if there should be] but it does touch on a lot of ideas, doesn't bore easily during the screening and it makes up for depth using a multi-facet nature.

@battikh who told you i am going to watch it anyway ;) ,no need to save any money ticket 10$ or 3d tv 4000$ :s

the real question is how did titanic get 2 billion $ in the 1st place?
cheesy story, horrible acting, ...

Last edited by battikh (07-02-2010 10:07:38 pm)

Technical remarks:
- 3d looks good from close ( we were forced to sit in front, but turns out it is great because the screen area is maximized as opposed to non-3d areas and sometimes it feels like you are inside the movie )
- Glasses are heavy, bulky, hard and dark. I am tempted to remove them from time to time
- You can disable the 3d glasses by putting your finger on a sensor between the 2 eyes (try it)
- I was told you'd have to pay $90 if you loose the glasses. Lame.
- Avatar is not the best 3d ever, although its good, and they're getting better at using 3d in movies. Watch for the undersea documentary (forgot the name), that should be mind blowing 3d.

Flakk wrote:

Avatar's story sucks and i wasint really impressed with the disney style story.. i was only amazed by the graphics and the special effects.

Agreed, although there are nice twists in it, (like "unattaineum", the mineral that they were trying to get to). It's good to see they didnt take themselves too seriously, considering the budget. You'd expect such winks and "jeux de mots" only in cheap movies, normally.
It also felt a bit like a video game, with the boss fight at the end.

kareem_nasser wrote:

Well actually it is not the story which i liked because it is somehow old but there are some few spices which James added.

I guess that's what I was saying earlier.

Last edited by rolf (07-02-2010 11:47:24 pm)

and just to mention it: in the cinema where i watched 20% where sleeping 40% where laughing (didn't understand anything of the movie i hope they even now what 3D means) and 20% with their love just talking and stuff you know.....20% or maybe less understood it and got the main idea and philosophy.

and Please there are good things outside Lebanon. I am not a fan but i want you to appreciate others that's how we see other countries succeed and we keep failing because we are a vacuum sucking never thinking or creating.

Exactly that's my point even though i still liked the philosophy behind the story as a new universe.

Did you see now why did i say stuff about appreciation and just to tell you something about me is that whneever i watch a movie whether it is bad, retarded or good i always aaeesha(live it in Lebanese)in order to understand it well and that imo is the key to success in life which is of course James Cameron had the same thing when writing Avatar in 1995.

rahmu wrote:

I loved the General guy. He's hilarious. All his "bad guy" speeches, his standing in the cockpit with a mug of coffee, his fight against sully, ... The actor was really good

yeah i liked him too, kinda reminded me of Duke Nukem or Sarge from Quake 3

Sarge

and teh General

hahaha lol! DUKE NUKEM , right?!

anyway, bout the movie... well, the story was pretty much deja vu stuff (poor tribes men with sticks vs. big army with antimatter missiles or whatever!).. although i kinda liked the 'connecting with nature' ideas... One specific thing i didnt like was the way they were trying (and succeded) to cash in on the 'americans killing natives for oil' concept. i think it was very 'commercial' from them as its so much like telling people just what they wanna hear without any addition or insight or whatever...

as for the 3d tech., its pretty much immersive.. but i felt it was annoying too!.. headaches anyone?