Man, Avatar kinda sucked, right??

[NormanF]

sequelS they're shooting 2 and 3 back to back. A2 in Dec 2015 and A2 in Dec 2016 apparently.

They really only need one sequel about an hour long. Humans cannot breath the atmosphere, the only people who where not riding in machinery were armed guards, nobody seemed to go outside to enjoy the scenery, and the corporation does not seem to mind killing aliens. So they would just nuke any mining areas from orbit and wait for the dust to settle.

Sent from my Etch-A-Sketch

 

[clancampbell]

The 3D in Avatar is the best 3D I have seen, it is amazing, but the movie is still worth watching in HD.

Totally agree, nothing has come close since Avatar.

Rich

 

[TheRealMe]

For me, I thought the 3D might have ruined it for me (I don't like the 3D, it distracts me from the film. I think film is a great artistic medium as it is, and how can a film depend on 3d if the story and flow are are interesting, and if we can connect with the characters emotionally? Why would 3D be needed to see the film "the way it was intended"?) I didn't hate it, it's just not doing it for me. That being said I really like Cameron, The Abyss is in my top ten (and I mean top ten, not my top ten that really has 50 film in it) I know every one has different taste in movies, this is just how the film hit me. Avatar is So-So.

 

[mattycsi]

Needed less blue cartoons

I said the same thing, was not impressed with the effects at all. It was like Bedknobs and Broomsticks to me. When the kittens and Pandora backdrop came on I felt like I was took away from the film, it didn't gel to the live action at all.

Jar Jar was a more competent cgi inserted character.

 

[Nwerke]

Some recent issues at work have given me a new understanding of how people judge quality. It is almost entirely visual. Give them a shiny MacBook Pro (which doesn't mesh well with our networks), they are happy (except the minority who actually expected to do work with it). Give them a PC that is actually higher-spec and does mesh well, but comes from a dowdy business range, they bitch and moan.

The reaction to the Navi in this thread, and more recently to the CG Orcs from The Hobbit, cements my opinion. If you like, or at least don't massively dislike, the design, you see how astonishingly good the work is. If you hate the design, you see how incompetently inept the work is, Humans are funny creatures.

 

[Sigma-LS]

The visuals are fantastic. I don't agree with the design direction of the smurfs (mostly because they don't mesh with evolution of the local fauna), but I don't think anybody has ever slammed Avatar for being technically deficient.

Honestly what I probably dislike most was all that "Earth Mother" nonesense. That hippy indian stereotype is as offensive as an alien planet of nothing but stereotype rednecks and twice as preachy.

 

[Nwerke]

Actually yes, a lot of people slammed Avatar for being technically deficient. There were criticisms of the Navi's lack of realism that could have been dug up and recycled word for word quite recently, with the name "Neytiri" replaced by the name "Azog".

I do of course agree about the preachy hippieness. Cameron's a preachy hippie, go figure...liked the film just the same. :lol