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I did, throwing off the natural man (and become an alien):D

But I thought this movie was about embracing the natural man? Isn't that what Jake did? Embrace his nature as a Navi? He allowed himself to let go of his civilized thinking and became Navi who are part of nature.

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All that Na'vi boobage? Well, let me just say that the Na'vi are NOT mammals! Hence the very small "breast" thing for the ladies, and the only reason those were included was so that we humans can easily identify with the genders. The original Na'vi concept was less boobtastic and even then, they're SMALL! And they DID NOT JIGGLE! Real breasts jiggle! Anyone see jiggling boobs in that film? Nope! Because they're not actually breasts! Which also means that there are no nipples either.

The mating scene? Bah, they were barely in the beginnings of the foreplay part of mating. You know that if they showed the whole thing Natiri and Jake Sully would've connected with one another using those tentacle things at the end of their braid, and then things would've gotten hot.

I really like Kids-In-Mind.com, I use it all the time, but their sex rating is too high. It should be halved. I believe it's too high because of the misconception of Na'vi breasts.

I believe the reason why we, who have already viewed the movie, are so passive about the swearing is because it was not gratuitous, and I don't recall one f-word in any form.

Is the storyline predictable? Yes, but it does not matter. There's not one original idea in Avatar, but it's put together cohesively and in a manner that hadn't been done before. In the original Star Wars there wasn't an original idea either, but it didn't matter. You cared about the characters. It's the same with Avatar.

I didn't find it long. I saw it with my husband in 3-D and got a migraine. I saw it again in 3-D with him and we took our six year old, and got a migraine. It was worth both migraines. Oh yes. Our daughter wants to see it again. She was able to sit through it just fine. We'll probably see it again, but my husband is going to make us do it in 2D, stupid migraines.

I found the story to be very personalized. The characterization was done so well I was moved to tears. So were my husband and Hazel (the kiddo). There was foreshadowing all over the movie so you could figure things out before anything happened. So, if you're all up in arms about predictability it's because you were paying attention and figured things out.

The sci fi parts are in the background. You won't see us today using crazy jargon to explain what we are doing with computers and you won't find that in Avatar. It's not in your face, it's just there. The world is a different world, low gravity (which is why you can fall from a great height and not die), and the travel time from earth to the planet is 6 years. So, really, other than that and knowing that they have the technology to transfer the self from one body into the other is all that's needed, and all that's presented. So, Wingnut and any other anti-science fiction peeps, don't let the sci fi aspects keep you from seeing it. It's all in the background. Not too many years ago what we are doing today was considered science fiction such as mobile phones.

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But I thought this movie was about embracing the natural man? Isn't that what Jake did? Embrace his nature as a Navi? He allowed himself to let go of his civilized thinking and became Navi who are part of nature.

Ehywah (spelling?) is the Na'vi God. And is literally in the planet. Everything on that planet is connected together. So really, you could say he found God in the forest and with the Na'vi because they are able to directly link up to their God.

There are many aspects to the movie, and many messages. It would be foolish to over focus on one or to attempt to see a message that's not there, and say, "this is the moral of the story!" Such declarations would be inaccurate. (this paragraph directed at everyone, not just Beefche's comment above.)

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I really like Kids-In-Mind.com, I use it all the time, but their sex rating is too high. It should be halved. I believe it's too high because of the misconception of Na'vi breasts.

Anatomical accuracy is not the same as perception.

So, Wingnut and any other anti-science fiction peeps, don't let the sci fi aspects keep you from seeing it. It's all in the background.

Partly I'm not a sci-fi person, and partly I just don't want to see it. Period. I'm just not interested. Everyone seems to want to know why, but I'm just plain old not interested.

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I just came home from the film. I tought is was good. What I was really glad for was not even much kissing. I was sure they would put the tentacle things together, but the did not (Have not red thebook). Now that ruthiechan said it "originally happened" I was thinking they should have shown the tentacles get together and them kind of like when they changed from body to avatar, go trough the light tunnel to E. Would have been a cool light effect.

There was not any swearing at all.. or maybe a couple so I enjoyed the film. :)

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Hello again!

It's about 10 months since I last wrote here, but Pam wrote me and asked how I was doing, and I really started missing writing here.

I'm posting this under the Avatar thread, because I've really been getting into it. I've seen it twice (both times in 3D and once at IMAX) and can't wait to see it again. I've even started a blog about it!

Tsahaylu

And on my LDS blog, I did a post about it, and how Joseph Smith's Pure Language and the language of the Na'vi could be connected.

Day of Praise

Also, if you haven't yet heard the James Horner soundtrack, be sure to. It's beautiful!

God Bless!

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Anatomical accuracy is not the same as perception.

Partly I'm not a sci-fi person, and partly I just don't want to see it. Period. I'm just not interested. Everyone seems to want to know why, but I'm just plain old not interested.

That's okay. I have no interest in seeing Napoleon Dynamite, every person who tells me I should makes me want to see it even less. :)

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Wingnut, I do not perceive bouncing breasts and nipples. . . Also, your previous comments led me to believe that it was ONLY the sci fi element the prevented you from seeing the film.

Bethie, interesting thoughts on Avatar in your blog! Thanks for sharing. :)

I just came home from the film. I tought is was good. What I was really glad for was not even much kissing. I was sure they would put the tentacle things together, but the did not (Have not red thebook). Now that ruthiechan said it "originally happened" I was thinking they should have shown the tentacles get together and them kind of like when they changed from body to avatar, go trough the light tunnel to E. Would have been a cool light effect.

There was not any swearing at all.. or maybe a couple so I enjoyed the film. :)

Oh, I don't know if the tentacle thing did happen in the original take of the "mating scene", but I was conjecturing that they probably would after the foreplay and then it'd be alien porn which is why they didn't show it.

Edit: Dravin, my sister is like that too. I tried to get her to watch Babylon 5. I know for a fact that if she were to give it a chance she'd like it, but she got annoyed with my enthusiasm and dug in her heels.

Edit again: Anyone else who has seen the movie notice how the avatars have five fingers but the Na'vi have four?

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That's okay. I have no interest in seeing Napoleon Dynamite, every person who tells me I should makes me want to see it even less. :)

Dravin, don't! It's bloody awful! I hated it.

I wanted to comment on something, Anatess, said. The reason I wasn't taken by the script wasn't because it was "tree-hugger" but rather just sooo predictable, sappy and unoriginal. Like I mentioned earlier, it's really similar to Fern Gully, so Avatar didn't get points for uniqueness from me. But if you like pretty lights—it's definitely a worthwhile looksee.

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Here are a couple of movie review sites for parents:

Kids-in-Mind: Movie Ratings That Actually Work (this site gives Avatar a 4/10 for sex/nudity, a 7/10 for violence and gore, and 4/10 for profanity)

My son saw it and said it was really good but thought that I might not like it because of the violence and gore. He knows how sensitive I am to that and wanted to give me a heads up. I have read every reply here and have not seen much mentioned on those two things. I am now thinking that maybe it isn't so bad afterall?

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Even the violance was kind of srait forward, not like slowmotion or anything. If someone shoots someone the person usually falls... but there was no feeding up on violence. When it is war it is war. A few dragons tok a few men in their teeth and threw them over sholder so they fell hundreds of meters down... or you knew they must ahve fallen as they were flying hig... but not anything like showing how they crashed down or something.... shoot - hit - die or get vonded and not too much blood and vounds.

I admired more the tecknics/drawings of making the film in the war sceens. The dragons colours were fantastic.

Come to think of it it was kind of funny that the plantpeople looked so much like real people. I am sure the drawers could have made an other difference between a male and female than the humps on her brist :P Not much imagination in that part I think. Instead of the one little cloth in front they could have had like a flower pedal skirts. (Girls white boys blue?) The tail had swung as well with a skirt on.

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My son saw it and said it was really good but thought that I might not like it because of the violence and gore. He knows how sensitive I am to that and wanted to give me a heads up. I have read every reply here and have not seen much mentioned on those two things. I am now thinking that maybe it isn't so bad afterall?

I don't remember gore. But it depends on your definition, I suppose. It is violent--military people in big machines shoot animals and people and some die. But I don't remember seeing anything like blood or heads coming off or anything. There might be blood on someone's face from a head wound, but it is the Hollywood version--a small trickle (we all know head wounds bleed like the dickens).

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So this is hands down the best movie I have ever seen. I saw it in 3D, which was awesome, because they invented a new type of camera to better film 3D, as wel as new software to make the CG more realistic.

On top of that, it had a compelling story line and good character development. Some people compared it to the last samurai, because a warrior adopts his enemies beliefs and joins them against his old comrades.

But this had so much more. I was simply awestruck as this movie kept my interest the entire time. The action scenes were amazing, and there were times when you felt as though the action was happening to you (because of the 3D, objects would almost hit you).

I would recomend everyone go see this amazing film.

There was nothing new in Avatar's theme and it reminded me more of what the American Indians went through, or those in the rain forest regions now. I agree it was compelling viewing from start to finish, (I watched it in 2D) but my excitement waned after a few days. If you compare this movie to other ground breaking releases like Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, Terminator then Avatar is weak. But if you compare it to Movies like Titanic, Toy Story, or 2001 Space Odyssey then its way out there purely on visual content.

Sex, violence and profanity sell movies and these days there are fewer and fewer films devout LDS can watch but I felt Cameron dealt with these very tastefully. However there are differences in the age of an LDS eight year old and a worldly one and would have not been comfortable taking one so young to watch it.

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I watched "The New World" movie last night, and there were a couple lines in it (between John Smith and Pocohantas) that were almost exactly word for word

in "Avatar". Example, John Smith, " I thought that day in the field was just a

dream, but that is ALL that's real." In another line when John Smith is just

thinking to himself, as he is in the Jamestown fort, he says something like, "The

real world is out there. " (where Ponchantas' tribe lives)

No matter, they are both great films, and James Cameron's beautiful graphics made

"Avatar" stand out, even if the story had already been told before.

Tsahaylu

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