2010-02-01, 10:09 AM
Yeah, I ended up seeing it. It was an entirely average movie. The graphics were amazing, I'll give them that. But beyond that, there's nothing that this movie has to offer. The plot is a complete ripoff of ferngully, it has no messages that other movies already haven't used, the battles were long and unoriginal, and the characters are flat. Some of the things that annoyed the hell out of me in the movie:
-They completely rushed the exposition. At some points that just had it explained to the audience, and at others you could tell it was just for background. Like when the CEO guy told the scientist why they were there; She's been on Pandora for I'm guessing at least a decade, she would know what they're there to mine for.
-The anatomy of the animals. Why the hell did they all have 6 legs? There's no extra stability for it. I guess it's nice if you happen to lose two of your legs, but that's about as far as it goes. Even further, why were the Na'vi the only ones with four limbs? It's pretty obvious they're from the same evolutionary line as the other animals because of their USB ponytails, but yet they don't have 6 limbs. I'm not saying they must have them, but it's pretty likely they would.
-The waterfalls in the floating mountains. These make no sense. There's no way there's enough water in that mountain to constantly outpour that much water. There's no source for it. Rainfall is one possibility, but the amount of surface area on the top of the mountain is not nearly big enough to get that much water.
-And for that matter, when the hell does it rain? I didn't see it rain once. And the reason why they're called rain forests, which I'm assuming they based this on, Is because it rains a TON. I didn't see it rain, like, at all.
-How did Jake know what to do after he got seperated from his party? You see him take a shirt, stick it in some gooey stuff, and light it. Jake said before he got in his Avatar body he did nothing to prepare for the trip. He had no idea what the anatomy of the world was. So how in god's name did he know this random goo in a tree is flammable?
I'm sure there's more but that's all I can come up with from the top of my head. This movie was average; I enjoyed it, but that was just because it was a showcase of pretty things.
-They completely rushed the exposition. At some points that just had it explained to the audience, and at others you could tell it was just for background. Like when the CEO guy told the scientist why they were there; She's been on Pandora for I'm guessing at least a decade, she would know what they're there to mine for.
-The anatomy of the animals. Why the hell did they all have 6 legs? There's no extra stability for it. I guess it's nice if you happen to lose two of your legs, but that's about as far as it goes. Even further, why were the Na'vi the only ones with four limbs? It's pretty obvious they're from the same evolutionary line as the other animals because of their USB ponytails, but yet they don't have 6 limbs. I'm not saying they must have them, but it's pretty likely they would.
-The waterfalls in the floating mountains. These make no sense. There's no way there's enough water in that mountain to constantly outpour that much water. There's no source for it. Rainfall is one possibility, but the amount of surface area on the top of the mountain is not nearly big enough to get that much water.
-And for that matter, when the hell does it rain? I didn't see it rain once. And the reason why they're called rain forests, which I'm assuming they based this on, Is because it rains a TON. I didn't see it rain, like, at all.
-How did Jake know what to do after he got seperated from his party? You see him take a shirt, stick it in some gooey stuff, and light it. Jake said before he got in his Avatar body he did nothing to prepare for the trip. He had no idea what the anatomy of the world was. So how in god's name did he know this random goo in a tree is flammable?
I'm sure there's more but that's all I can come up with from the top of my head. This movie was average; I enjoyed it, but that was just because it was a showcase of pretty things.