This week is movie number one the phenomenon AVATAR!! I had already seen this movie, but this week I decided to re-watch it so that I could give my opinion and report on what it made and whether it is justified at the top of the list with $760,167,650 as it’s lifetime gross since it only came out in 2009. In my opinion…Avatar is awesome and completely justified at the top of the list. It did so well that in the city that I come from it was re-released a SECOND TIME because it was so good. I now have seen it 4 times. I only saw it in the theater once, but the other 3 times I watched it at home with friends and family. It was just one of those movies that each time you watch it you see something new and notice more and more, whether it be about the graphics or the movie itself. From the big screen to the little screen it was amazing all the same.
James Cameron took the movie screen and used it to make a movie that was out of the ordinary and different then anything that has ever really been seen before. There was the physical aspect of the movie with the real people doing their own parts; Sam Worthington playing his part as Jake Sully the paraplegic that takes the place of his brother in the Avatar program, and in the movie Jake get their consciousness transferred into Human/Na’vi hybrids as well as Sam getting digitally transferred into the hybrid in real life. Not only was this done once but with several different characters.
Not only is there the amazing graphical accomplishments, but there is the diversity and plot development itself. There is military force with greedy business fuel that creates the main focus for the movie, but there is also romance and cultural struggle. Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles is working with Parker Selfridge a business man, played by Giovanni Ribisi, to mine this element that they have found on Pandora that fetches quite a load of dough on the market. Because of this their main goal you could say is to destroy this civilization. Now the romance comes in the form of two civilizations clashing. Sigourney Weaver’s character Dr. Grace Augustine brings Jake onto the project because the hybrid that they have was made for his brother, but he died L. Jake is brought into action with the Doc and Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez) they go out and are there to make contact with the natives. When Jake is separated from the others he survives and runs into Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). This is where the romance springs from.
With these two aspects alone there is a diversity that can appeal to boys, girls, men, women, and families. There is the intensity of action and warfare that appeals to a great deal of the male race, and the sensitivity and complexity of romance and relationship that in most cases appeals to the female race. Not only that, but add in the syfy twist of the story and the out of the box thinking and you have a movie that appeals to practically all movie-goers. They took an idea and morphed it into something that they could try to develop into something that all people would enjoy and go see. The more people that want to see it and enjoy it the more they will recommend it to their friends and the more times they will go see it. When it comes out on dvd and bluray the more people will go out and buy the movie.
The reason that this movie is top of the list is that they took an idea and made it will rounded. They took a single idea and looked at all the sides to make it appeal to as many as possible. That is the point of movies and entertainment to make something that has substance but that is enjoyable for the viewers. Make it interesting but not so complicated that they viewer looses interest.
I give Avatar an 10/10 and IMDB gives it a 8.3/10. They truly made a movie that I believe will be able to survive time and outlast many others.
I really did enjoy this movie. I think that the way the story played out was able to connect to both male and female audiences. I also think that it was a little bit long but as I look back at the movie, it wouldn’t have been as good to me if they would have shortened it. But at times, it seemed like it was going to end but it kept going. I remember going to the movie and coming out and being surprised at how late it was. If it wasn’t as long as it was, I think it would have left a lot of good moments out and it would have diminished the quality of the movie. The whole movie I was wondering what was going to happen next. Like most people I did tear up a little at the end. I’m extremely surprised that this movie was number one. I really liked this movie but I expected Titanic or one of the Harry Potter movies to be number one. This movie is well deserving. I’ve only seen it once in theaters but I would definitely see it again. I would enjoy seeing this movie in 3D also. I heard this movie was going to be back in theater (or it already has been) again in 3D. I’ve only seen two movies in 3D. One was a “real” movie while the other was a cartoon. I didn’t like the real movie in 3D but the cartoon movie was really good quality in 3D. I think that since this movie has both elements, it would be a great movie to see in 3D. I would personally give this movie a 10/10 as well and it’s a shame that the IMDB gave it an 8.3/10. Despite this rating, I really liked this movie and I would go see it again.
ReplyDeleteBethany Buda - http://www.app-tastic.blogspot.com/
I love Avatar, I think it is one of the best movies of the decade and will probably be up there with one of the best movies of all time. I really cant believe that almost everything was done digitally but it looks so real. The story was so great, it really reminded me of how the English came to America and started setting up colonies and taking over the Indians land. The picture was so great and the 3d was amazing. I don’t know if you had heard this but a lot of people actually got really depressed after seeing the movie because of how beautiful Pandora was when they were watching it and then after the movie when they would go back to their lives they would be upset at how ugly it was compared to Pandora. I really hope that Avatar 2 come out soon and it is just as good if not better than the first, I would hate it if they didn’t live up to the first one. James Cameron really amazes me of how good his movies are everytime he makes one. Im not really sure if he has ever not had a box office hit with movies like Titannic, Terminator, and Aliens; those are just amazing movies. Another thing I really liked about Avatar was that there weren’t any hugely famous actors to really steal the film, all of the actors were nobody extremely well known but they all did so well. The actor who played Jake Sully became extremely famous after he did Avatar, I think I saw him in at least 4 movies right after Avatar came out. Overall Avatar is amazing and I cannot wait to see the sequel.
ReplyDeleteNick Hess
I enjoyed this movie very much. But alot of my friends hated it because the story line sucked as they said. The only thing that they enjoyed was the "amazing" graphics as they said. i will agree with them that the graphics were pretty amazing. i also couldnt believe that it was all done digitally. i mean it really does look like you could find something like that in real life. I must also add that i am a big fan of the titanic and a dark knight. a dark knight i must would have been my number one video just because of how amazing it was. i mean i dont really like to watch movies more than a couple times but that one i would be able to watch anytime taht i wanted.
ReplyDeleteJordon Robertson