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Meh, I'm well aware that there was a thread about Avatar already, and that the movie is rather old by now, but I watched it today, because people have been bugging me to see it for an eternity already. "It's great!", "They have finally made 3D good!" and "The story and characters are so captivating!" .. etc. So I just made another thread so you can all read about how shitty I think this movie is.
Right, so I'll just warn you that this review, or rant, might spoil certain key-elements of Avatar, so if you have not seen it (jolly good) and you are considering seeing it (I don't recommend it), you might want to skip the whole thing. Thus I'll sum it up nice and easy for those who do not want to read the wall of text; I think Avatar is a terrible movie, and I sincerely regret wasting 3 hours of my day to watch it.
Well then, to the long story. I'll start with the so-called "3D" that has finally reached a point where it works. Bullshit. Offsetting frames as to illustrate how the human eyes see different images and blends them together in order to achieve depth in a movie, with help from a pair of uncomfortable, small glasses, doesn't work. Everything is still as flat as on a film, a set of holograms in different layers of focus. Sure, you get the feeling there is something behind the hologram until the next hologram, but each level is flat. It's not filmed from two differently angled cameras, representing eyes, for then to merge them together like our eyes do. It's the same video, just pushed to the side and pushed more to the side the farther back you get. Not only does it look awful, but you get a damn headache from wearing the glasses, and if you take them off you can see the actual offset image on screen, which is not pretty. Please guys, stop making "3D" movies, I prefer the 3D in real movies. At least it works and look real.
Second off is the praised original and creative world, Pandora. Obviously none of the reviewers have seen fantasy movies before, and definitely not played fantasy games, like Final Fantasy. The tree-hugging, blue hippie-cats, as a guy on YouTube nicked them, the Na'vi, are nothing but stretched out Ronso (Final Fantasy X), without the fur and horns. Arguably, there are a few minor features that differentiate them, but in the end they're pretty much all the same, even personality-wise. Those robots with a human controller in them is like ripped right out of The Matrix, and probably a lot of other stories as well. The helicopters with horizontal propellers on both sides look a lot like Unreal Tournament 3's Manta (slight modifications). Flying rocks, well haven't we all seen that before. As for the plants and animals on the planet, they are all plausible candidates for any fantasy-game, and I reckon I've seen a lot of it before in Final Fantasy games, but I'll refrain from accusing any design-cloning on that area; at least the hammer-head rhinos are awesome.
Finally, the tree of life, life tree.. whatever they call it; Yggdrasil. Like in almost ALL fantasy universes where there is a nature, there is the tree of life, the world tree.
In the end, it rounds down to Avatar lacking a solid storyline, it doesn't look nice visually due to the 3D, but I'm hoping they do better with the DVD/Blu-ray release. It also lacks originality. It lacks EVERYTHING a good movie has. Yet it brings in millions of dollars just 'cause it's "3D" and everyone has to see the new "3D" that looks just like the "3D" that was invented in 1853 (according to Wikipedia), called anaglyph images - one hundred and fifty years ago, guys, it's not ground-breaking.
I guess it doesn't come as a surprise that I'm really angry about spending 3 hours, whereof 2 hours in a headache due to the glasses, watching a movie this bad, for a rip-off of a ticket price. I'll hit Avatar up for 4/10, not worth to watch.
Right, so I'll just warn you that this review, or rant, might spoil certain key-elements of Avatar, so if you have not seen it (jolly good) and you are considering seeing it (I don't recommend it), you might want to skip the whole thing. Thus I'll sum it up nice and easy for those who do not want to read the wall of text; I think Avatar is a terrible movie, and I sincerely regret wasting 3 hours of my day to watch it.
Well then, to the long story. I'll start with the so-called "3D" that has finally reached a point where it works. Bullshit. Offsetting frames as to illustrate how the human eyes see different images and blends them together in order to achieve depth in a movie, with help from a pair of uncomfortable, small glasses, doesn't work. Everything is still as flat as on a film, a set of holograms in different layers of focus. Sure, you get the feeling there is something behind the hologram until the next hologram, but each level is flat. It's not filmed from two differently angled cameras, representing eyes, for then to merge them together like our eyes do. It's the same video, just pushed to the side and pushed more to the side the farther back you get. Not only does it look awful, but you get a damn headache from wearing the glasses, and if you take them off you can see the actual offset image on screen, which is not pretty. Please guys, stop making "3D" movies, I prefer the 3D in real movies. At least it works and look real.
Second off is the praised original and creative world, Pandora. Obviously none of the reviewers have seen fantasy movies before, and definitely not played fantasy games, like Final Fantasy. The tree-hugging, blue hippie-cats, as a guy on YouTube nicked them, the Na'vi, are nothing but stretched out Ronso (Final Fantasy X), without the fur and horns. Arguably, there are a few minor features that differentiate them, but in the end they're pretty much all the same, even personality-wise. Those robots with a human controller in them is like ripped right out of The Matrix, and probably a lot of other stories as well. The helicopters with horizontal propellers on both sides look a lot like Unreal Tournament 3's Manta (slight modifications). Flying rocks, well haven't we all seen that before. As for the plants and animals on the planet, they are all plausible candidates for any fantasy-game, and I reckon I've seen a lot of it before in Final Fantasy games, but I'll refrain from accusing any design-cloning on that area; at least the hammer-head rhinos are awesome.
Finally, the tree of life, life tree.. whatever they call it; Yggdrasil. Like in almost ALL fantasy universes where there is a nature, there is the tree of life, the world tree.
Not that it's something wrong with using that in a fantasy story; just don't come here and claim it to be original.Wikipedia said:
In the end, it rounds down to Avatar lacking a solid storyline, it doesn't look nice visually due to the 3D, but I'm hoping they do better with the DVD/Blu-ray release. It also lacks originality. It lacks EVERYTHING a good movie has. Yet it brings in millions of dollars just 'cause it's "3D" and everyone has to see the new "3D" that looks just like the "3D" that was invented in 1853 (according to Wikipedia), called anaglyph images - one hundred and fifty years ago, guys, it's not ground-breaking.
I guess it doesn't come as a surprise that I'm really angry about spending 3 hours, whereof 2 hours in a headache due to the glasses, watching a movie this bad, for a rip-off of a ticket price. I'll hit Avatar up for 4/10, not worth to watch.
