Haven't you got Avatared yet??
Avatared!
Yes. I know. I know this review is coming after even my lousy neighbor and the lice on his head have seen Avatar a gazillion-bazillion times... or three times.. Whatever! But I can't be blamed. That does NOT mean i know who is to be blamed. Just read the review.. OK?!
Well.. to start off with, lets start with the budget of Avatar. Yes, if an idea takes 13 years to take shape, then the budget has to be the number of minutes in those 13 years right?? When you have a producer who forgets that a cheque has only one line to fill an amount (Try writing 3000000.. on your dad's cheque.. haha!), then ANY lousy idea can be turned into a "magnum-opus".
Now Avatar very narrowly escapes being categorized as above, purely because of the very real-life scenarios depicted so.. Umm.. (Artistically? cunningly??), that makes one believe that Pandora may be far from here, but is metaphorically quite around us. The very obvious references to de-forestation, forceful eviction of people from their lands for development and the very famous notion of man-is-the-most-dangerous-animal spurt out onto your face, quite literally(the movie's 3D you know.. :p). The story is a very basic one, about how the human race, having killed their own mother (read Earth) go to Pandora to kill their’s (read.. well.. Pandora!). An obscure element called unobtanium is supposed to solve all energy problems back home, and the only thing that stands between it and the humans are the (blue-bodied, peace loving, forest-dwelling etc etc..) Na'vi's and the huge tree they live in. A human is sent amongst them to try and convince them to leave the tree they dwell in (which for some strange, unanswerable reason he never makes an attempt to). Now as our human, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), learns the ways of the Na'vis, he discovers what a loser race he belongs to and takes their side, accompanied by the very lovable na'vi princess of the Omaticaya Clan, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). What follows is a war that shows all sorts of futuristic weaponry that Cameron could fit on screen. The ending is predictable and not exactly something that makes you go “Awww..”
But what works for the movie, and works hell-loads, is the experience that the film offers to you in 3-D. It is so enchanting and make-believe that you try to shoo away every mosquito that flies in the film and try to dodge bullets that are being fired on screen.
As for the acting, there isn't much to comment on the performances, which are very averagish. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana form a strange but lovable pair that pulls you across most of the film.
In the end, the entire credit for the success goes to three entities.
Firstly to James Cameron, to show us that nothing is impossible.
Secondly, to the magic of new-age 3-D, again to show us that nothing is impossible.
And finally, to the producer, to show us that money is after all.. just... paper!
If you aren't already then Go.. Get Avataared!!
Yes. I know. I know this review is coming after even my lousy neighbor and the lice on his head have seen Avatar a gazillion-bazillion times... or three times.. Whatever! But I can't be blamed. That does NOT mean i know who is to be blamed. Just read the review.. OK?!
Well.. to start off with, lets start with the budget of Avatar. Yes, if an idea takes 13 years to take shape, then the budget has to be the number of minutes in those 13 years right?? When you have a producer who forgets that a cheque has only one line to fill an amount (Try writing 3000000.. on your dad's cheque.. haha!), then ANY lousy idea can be turned into a "magnum-opus".
Now Avatar very narrowly escapes being categorized as above, purely because of the very real-life scenarios depicted so.. Umm.. (Artistically? cunningly??), that makes one believe that Pandora may be far from here, but is metaphorically quite around us. The very obvious references to de-forestation, forceful eviction of people from their lands for development and the very famous notion of man-is-the-most-dangerous-animal spurt out onto your face, quite literally(the movie's 3D you know.. :p). The story is a very basic one, about how the human race, having killed their own mother (read Earth) go to Pandora to kill their’s (read.. well.. Pandora!). An obscure element called unobtanium is supposed to solve all energy problems back home, and the only thing that stands between it and the humans are the (blue-bodied, peace loving, forest-dwelling etc etc..) Na'vi's and the huge tree they live in. A human is sent amongst them to try and convince them to leave the tree they dwell in (which for some strange, unanswerable reason he never makes an attempt to). Now as our human, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), learns the ways of the Na'vis, he discovers what a loser race he belongs to and takes their side, accompanied by the very lovable na'vi princess of the Omaticaya Clan, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). What follows is a war that shows all sorts of futuristic weaponry that Cameron could fit on screen. The ending is predictable and not exactly something that makes you go “Awww..”
But what works for the movie, and works hell-loads, is the experience that the film offers to you in 3-D. It is so enchanting and make-believe that you try to shoo away every mosquito that flies in the film and try to dodge bullets that are being fired on screen.
As for the acting, there isn't much to comment on the performances, which are very averagish. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana form a strange but lovable pair that pulls you across most of the film.
In the end, the entire credit for the success goes to three entities.
Firstly to James Cameron, to show us that nothing is impossible.
Secondly, to the magic of new-age 3-D, again to show us that nothing is impossible.
And finally, to the producer, to show us that money is after all.. just... paper!
If you aren't already then Go.. Get Avataared!!
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