Avatar
2009
Crippled ex-Marine Jake (Sam Worthington) journeys to the beautiful planet Pandora to become an avatar -- a quasi-alien "clone" of his real self -- and unwittingly becomes involved in an interstellar conflict. When the alien Na'vi race rebels against humanity's unchecked exploitation of Pandora's resources, Jake must decide exactly where his loyalties lie. James Cameron directs this dazzling action film that also stars Sigourney Weaver.
Synopsis compliments of Netflix
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
It's really well done, but it's nothing out of this world. The plot is nothing new but it cashed in for the CGI, the 3D glasses and its director. It's not bad, but not the best movie ever or best in 2009.
Besides being plagiarized from a novella, and some lines are Corney, the story line is excellent. I didn't like that there was no background story to Pandora, but maybe there will be in the sequel
One thing I really like about this movie is how creative it was. A whole world with different creatures and a language. I love things like that. The story was also pretty good.
One of the worst films I have ever paid to see. Cloying, simplistic, hackneyed. Use of the term "unobtanium" to describe the precious metal being stolen from the blue people, I think, sums up this disaster of a film perfectly.
Love the scenery and thought the plot was pretty good. I thought some parts were drawn out and some too predictable, overall I really enjoyed it.
I almost balled my eyes out 5 times. Almost. Beautiful movie, very inspiring.
There were several climactic situations built over an array of scenes forcing you to draw your own parallels and, possibly intentionally, after a point was made, the movie would lull, as if to give the audience a chance to process everything.
Very good movie even though the 3d glasses made my eyes hurt! lol butthats just me othwerwise very excellent and good
Not as fantastic as many pretend, though of course visually candy of the century. Aliens and T2 made me want to see them instantly again, Avatar I can wait for few months before second viewing. But still a must see in big Imax 3D theater!
I don't know why it's so uncool to say you like this film. A visual tour de force ... and the storyline is no worse than Alien, regarded by many as a masterpiece.
There's a battle near the end that has incredible CGI work. It's a snoozer for a good deal of the beginning of the movie, though. Might be a little too long.
Aside from all the hype I thought this was actually a well done sci-fi movie. The massive amounts of CGI could be a bit offputting for some people, but I thought they did a good job of avoiding the uncanny valley.
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