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I just got back from seeing Dances with Smurfs Avatar. As you can tell, I found the plot serviceable at best. But, much like in John Scalzi's very on-point review, I was willing to forgive the script. At least, unlike George Lucas, the dialog actually sounded like something a human being would say.
General comments:
1) See this in 3-D. Cameron doesn't use 3-D as a trick, rather as a way to immerse yourself in the story. Just the images of Pandora orbiting its primary, or the night shots looking up from Pandora at the primary and the other moons made it worth the money.
2) The "USB slot" in all the alien biology was an interesting twist. It was not entirely thought through (USB predators, anybody) but definitely new. Also neat and unusual, at least for visual SF, was the "planet as network" concept.
3) Cameron did a much better job with his "primitives vs. technology" battle than did Lucas. There are defined reasons why the humans have to fight at the alien level, and both sides suffer real consequences in this movie.
Go see it on the big screen. (Don't order a pop - this is a bladder-tester of a movie.)
General comments:
1) See this in 3-D. Cameron doesn't use 3-D as a trick, rather as a way to immerse yourself in the story. Just the images of Pandora orbiting its primary, or the night shots looking up from Pandora at the primary and the other moons made it worth the money.
2) The "USB slot" in all the alien biology was an interesting twist. It was not entirely thought through (USB predators, anybody) but definitely new. Also neat and unusual, at least for visual SF, was the "planet as network" concept.
3) Cameron did a much better job with his "primitives vs. technology" battle than did Lucas. There are defined reasons why the humans have to fight at the alien level, and both sides suffer real consequences in this movie.
Go see it on the big screen. (Don't order a pop - this is a bladder-tester of a movie.)
