Am I the only one here that has never seen it or understands what the hype is about?
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I watched about 5 minutes of it in an electronics store before getting bored. If I'm not mistaken it is Dances with Wolves in space. There's also a big blue guy who hangs dong.
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It's not about the story, it's about the sfx.
Watch James Cameron's movies like the abyss, Terminator2 and Titanic. (There's others as well if you want to put in more effort)
He's a visionary director and I just mean his own vision, Avatar was an idea he wanted to see on screen but was unhappy with the technology until he felt it was ready to tell the idea he had.
Like some other things, by today's standards everyone else who saw what he did have been able to refine and expand on what he did so it may seem in unremarkable, but he finally decided to do the biggie when he felt the tech had come far enough for him to do his vision and it made Bank. So. Much. Bank
Again not because it's an amazing original story, comparisons to fern gully were immediate even when it was new, but it was something that sits in a divide of how sfx can be used to tell a story in a way that people hadn't otherwise shown. Even with a really unremarkable plot
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It was a very pretty movie
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Given that they could accelerate masses to relativistic speeds. It never made sense to me why they bothered to do anything other than shatter the planet (a Chevy engine block could do that job at those speeds) and then collect the now more readily available unobtainium from the vacuum of space with no fighting required or any loses of any kind.
They also want to colonise the planet. Can't really do that if it's in pieces.
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The first one used some crazy tech that is now regularly part of making video games. The movie itself is rather mid, IMO (I mean, it's just Fern Gully but sci-fi instead of fantasy 🤷♂️), but the stuff that went into making it is fascinating as hell.
Technically humans are the aliens in that franchise. The blue folks are the native inhabitants.
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Its a franchise built solely on spectacle, by a man who knows spectacle.
Idk, I like the big special effects rollercoasters that James Cameron and Co. have made.
The first time he flies a banshee in the first movie is a pretty cool scene, the battle in the floating mountains was badass, and the sheer scale of everything on Pandora is incredible to see (even if it's all CGI).
The second one was still a CGI rollercoaster that was fun to watch. I liked Spider cause he was actually kinda badass. The underwater scenes were spectacular to watch and there was more world building with the water navi.
I'll be interested to see what these other new navi are like and how they fit into everything else. The trailer makes it look like they're going to partner with the RDA somehow. I kinda want to know why.
Semi related: i once lost an internet friend because he mentioned avatar and my dumb arse thought he was talking about the movies when he was talking about the anime