Comments on The Dork Dimension: Movie Review: Avatar

I have to disagree bro. I just got done watching t...

2010-05-09T23:45:20.048-04:00

I have to disagree bro. I just got done watching this, and I have to say, Awesome!

Great movie. !

To clarify: By weird aliens, I don't mean the ...

2010-01-10T20:43:15.925-05:00

To clarify: By weird aliens, I don't mean the Navi people. They looked great. And I agree with Roger Ebert that the special effects people did an amazing job of making the female Navi protagonist actually look attractive. :o

Anyhow, it was only the non-Navi aliens that I thought looked weird, and specifically the animals. I loved all the insects and plants.

~Soups

I saw Avatar in in 3D this weekend. For me, the be...

2010-01-10T17:20:44.886-05:00

I saw Avatar in in 3D this weekend. For me, the best way to describe the movie is to say it was simply fun. It was a fun, enjoyable experience.

The 3D was absolutely amazing, right from the opening sequence. The characters were in zero G and were floating around... what seemed to be directly in front of me! It was bizarre and wonderful.

I still think the aliens were too weird looking... but I was happy to see that the 6 legs thingy was consistent with all the creatures. In the long run though, the look of the animals ended up being a minor detail.

Also, the glowing forest wasn't so bad after I actually saw it. It was only at night and only certain trees and plants. I had been thinking that everything glowed... even regular trees and stuff.

I am a plot guy. I love complicated plots. For instance, I loved, absolutely loved the movie Syriana. However, after watching Avatar, I don't think I could have handled a complicated plot. My wind was working so hard to take in what I was seeing that thinking about a complex plot for 2 hours 40 minutes would have been exhausting.

Speaking of which, though there was never a dull or pointless moment, it was too long. Just too long.

Anyhow, great movie, and I highly recommend seeing it in 3D. I'm curious how I would have felt about the movie had I not seen it in 3D...

~Soups

I would say that the difference between the hype o...

2010-01-07T23:21:17.923-05:00

I would say that the difference between the hype of Avatar versus The Dark Knight is that we've been hearing about Avatar for a few years now, especially for several months. All of the rave about The Dark Knight really hit after the movie was released and people who saw it built it up. Avatar had quotes like that from Mr. Cameron himself before anyone had even seen it.

"I Want to Believe" ??? it took me a few...

2009-12-30T04:26:26.822-05:00

"I Want to Believe" ??? it took me a few minutes to have any idea at all what you were talking about.

Not only is "hype" diffrent to quantify I think you and Nathan are using two diffrent definitions. I read it, in its clarified form, as more event movies. Like the aforementioned SW ep. 1 or Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow.

I completely agree with you on everything you said...

2009-12-27T03:33:11.425-05:00

I completely agree with you on everything you said. I said most of the same stuff in my review. The plot was really the weakness of the movie as the story was way to predictable in what was going to happen. Though CGI was just plain amazing.
Great review.

Avatar has been hands down the most hyped movie to...

2009-12-24T10:28:13.876-05:00

Avatar has been hands down the most hyped movie to come along in a while, even considering those others. Adverts were absolutely everywhere for it.

Good review. I have not seen it yet, but your comments seem to confirm my fears. I too thought the alien creatures looked like SW rejects. :(

And all the talk of the forests that "pulsed with energy" had me fearing that the special effects would be over kill. Trying to "enhance" nature just screams of hubris. At the very least, film in high def and be done with it.

Thanks for the informative review.

Clark: You're right that Rotten Tomatoes doesn...

2009-12-24T09:02:14.542-05:00

Clark: You're right that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't reflect the preferences of the average movie goer, but I'd say that box office returns do. I also didn't like Transformers 2, which ended up making $800 million worldwide. And it looks like Avatar is following suit. It already has $330 million, so whatever it's doing, people are digging it.

Lee: Yeah, I thought about that when I wrote it, but I'd consider Avatar to be more hyped than even Dark Knight. That's totally a subjective call, as I'm not sure how we could quantify "hype", so I think you could make a good case that Dark Knight was more hyped than Avatar. But I'd say that the last time that a movie was as hyped as Avatar, especially for its technological achievements, was Star Wars Episode I (I edited the introduction to be clearer in this regard). But again, that's a subjective call.

"There hasn't been a movie as hyped as
2009-12-24T01:11:52.577-05:00
"There hasn't been a movie as hyped as Avatar in years." Seriously? Last year's Dark Knight and I Want to Believe come to mind.

I haven't seen it so I can't agree or disagree with your review. That sentence just caught my attention.

In your defense, I do not consider the scores at R...

2009-12-24T00:42:05.717-05:00

In your defense, I do not consider the scores at Rotten Tomatoes as being very reflective of the "average movie goers."
I consider myself the average guy, as I don't expect too much from movies that don't ask for it. I enjoyed G.I. Joe, I liked Transformers 2, I can laugh at a romantic comedy although I know the story before going to see it, but Avatar does not look very good at all. I'll still see it, because my wife and I already decided to shell out the extra cash and see it in 3-D (never been to a 3d movie), but I don't intend to like the movie all that much, I'm just going to be wowed by the visual effects.

I agree. Too long and too familiar. I can't fi...

2009-12-23T21:59:57.089-05:00

I agree. Too long and too familiar. I can't figure out why it's "Glorious" and can't seem to find the "like nothing else" thing. Everything I saw in "Avatar", I've seen in other movies and cartoons.