Images thanks to avatartrailer.com
Official Avatar Website with a nice trailer.
James Cameron "Terminator, Aliens" has been quoted as saying that this movie was made to be seen in the Imax 3-d format and yesterday, I took the wifey to see it at an Imax theater. Being the most expensive movie ever to produce, at 300 million dollars, this flick boasts some of the best visual effects ever created for a full length motion picture. With a long running time of 2hrs 40 min, I would have to say that I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. The scenery was stunningly beautiful and the visual effects were jaw dropping as I had expected. The story was pretty good if not a bit predictable from what was shown in the trailer. I haven't been to see a 3-d movie in some time and while they seem to be able to do it better than they did in the old days, I found that I was missing some of the clearer diffinition that one experiences watching a digital theater's 2-d presentation of a movie. That being said, this was the best representation of the 3-d format that I have ever seen and some of the scenes were quite convincing as to there presented depth. During some of the flying scenes, I did experience some vertigo from sudden movements and the perception of dizzying heights in these sequences were rather convincing. The poor wifey nearly got sick and had to take off her 3-d glasses do to vertigo and a slightheadache for about the last 20 min of the flick. The theater we were in had digital sound and at times, it was rather loud, which I always enjoy.
There was a scene when the humans were attacking the local lifeform's "home tree" where the explosions were so loud, with the 3-d mayhem, you would swear that you were there. Something must be said of the character, creature, and scenery design as this is some of the best graphic design i have ever seen.
My brother sent me a pretty cool link that goes into more detail of the movie's graphic design as explained by
5 of the movie's designersOn the small screen, I believe that real 3-d is the only option kind of like the Imax version but you owe it to yourself to go see this one. I would go ahead and call this one the movie of the year for me.
The movie is fairly kid-friendly as there is not alot of foul language, and no nudity. There is alot of action, some fisticuffs, and some really loud explosions but kids like that sort of thing anyways. The most racy thing that I seen was veteran actress Sigorney Weaver smoking in a few shots. She was the only face that I really recognized and she played a good part. She still looks pretty good for 60.
I really look forward to seeing a nice crisp 2-d blu ray version of this movie to come out, sometime in the future.
