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WhiteWolf89

For anyone who has seen "Avatar" (I just watched it tonight), you'll see a lot of similarities between the movie and "Dances with Wolves", and I guess the whole history of Native Indians vs America.

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Paul G

Check this thread:
Does this story sound familiar? Avatar Movie

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Dancingwind

Sweet I want to see it even more now

DeafToniB

Well, I have not watch anything new like Avatar which I understand has to do with the person who has disability. Yes, I did noticed on the Avatar flyer on my E-mail saying that it is something to with the word I could not make out to remember just like aboriginal communities that have change. I don't want anything on us to be change just because we are not the way we were. Look at the bush aboriginals in Australia. They have not change for over a million of years, I think. It is just a movie that is just making up story just like 2012 movie which is not true. I have not see this movie yet, either. There is no movie house on the island and I have to rent the DVD to watch the movie.

AmigoKumeyaay

over on rottentomatos dot com it rates an 82% with viewers, many comments on the visual beauty. the major critics give it 94%, also citing visual appeal

Avatar Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes


Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.

Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Dec 18, 2009 Wide
Synopsis: Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn... Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making, Avatar marks Cameron's return to feature directing since helming 1997's Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars® including Best Picture. WETA Digital, renowned for its work in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong, will incorporate new intuitive CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters. --© 20th Century Fox

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ok24stacey

We saw it on Friday and loved it. Didn't even seem like a 3 hour movie at all. Its one that you really need to see in the theater even if you only "might or maybe" want to see it.

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ugidali

Yes I've seen the movie. Its so long. I really got tired of sitting there but I liked it.

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Brown1

I love the blue people. lol!

Mud_Woman

who cares what a white man behind a computer screen types ... i feel sorry for you!!


anywho ...

this movie "avatar" is not only based on natives, but also the african ppl ... they kinda sorta went through the same shyt us NDN's did ... being removed from there land for diamonds and mining

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AmigoKumeyaay

we all have our own opinions, just that the guy over at rotten tomatoes gets paid for his. That, and two bucks will get you a cuppa coffee.

avatar had many themes woven into it.

Full-blooded alien bodies cloned for use by white scientists so they can get into the alien village and convince the natives to forsake their land?

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AmigoKumeyaay

Apocalypto was more realistic

Avatar a ‘gorgeous disappointment’ - E.D. Kain - American Times - True/Slant

Avatar a ‘gorgeous disappointment’

I finally saw Avatar (in 3D) without anyone threatening to beat me up. It was everything I thought it would be. The 3D is cool. The glowing neon jungle is gorgeous. The scope is phenomenal, and the special effects as spectacular as anything I’ve ever seen.

But for all its spectacular spectacle, beneath the blue-skinned exterior there isn’t really any meat. Indeed, it’s almost as if we’ve seen this film before. It’s basically FernGully meets Dances with Wolves - a crowd pleaser, if the crowd happens to be a new-agey set of anti-war, anti-capitalist environmentalists or, in other words, Hollywood. The native Americans Na’vi are perfectly in tune with nature, and Avatar’s director, James Cameron, treats them like directors have been treating native people in Hollywood for decades – as noble savages. Or, as one reviewer puts it, “How noble are these savages? The most noblest savages, ever. They’re all wise and brave and fair-minded. Even their hot-headed warriors aren’t all that mean to Jake Sully. Mind you, even the ewoks had a suspicious, over-protective, vaguely villainous shaman type. Not the Navi.”

The evil soldiers are made all the more wicked because they’re working for a private corporation whose sole mission is to destroy the natural world of Pandora in order to strip it of its precious minerals (or mineral, rather – unobtanium to be precise….) They are not only violent and callous, they are also greedy and imperialistic and doing it all not for love of country but for love of money. Corporate mercenaries, the lowest of the low. Indeed, the only people who are almost as noble as the savages are the scientists – and, of course, the wayward marine and heroic protagonist Kevin Costner Jake Sully.
Of course, like Star Trek before it, no matter how idealized the aliens are, and no matter how villainous the soldiers, American exceptionalism is still the real winner in Avatar. As Lauren Bans so aptly put it,

[T]he more blatant lesson of Avatar is not that American imperialism is bad, but that in fact it’s necessary. Sure there are some bad Americans—the ones with tanks ready to mercilessly kill the Na’vi population, but Jake is set up as the real embodiment of the American spirit. He learns Na’vi fighting tactics better than the Na’vi themselves, he takes the King’s daughter for his own, he becomes the only Na’vi warrior in centuries to tame this wild dragon bird thing. Even in someone else’s society the American is the chosen one. He’s going to come in, lead your army, take your princesses, and just generally save the day for you. Got it? This is how we do it.

I won’t summarize the story. I think anyone who has seen a preview of the film already has a fairly firm grasp on what happens. You can also go rent The Last Samurai. I think people will enjoy the film if they go in with low enough expectations. Like I said, the visuals are really amazing. I haven’t seen a movie in 3D in ages – and even then, I think Captain EO with Michael Jackson and the 3D short Honey I Shrunk the Audience are the only actual three-dimensional films I’ve ever seen.

I wasn’t ever bored even if I wasn’t ever really emotionally engaged during the 161 minutes of the film, despite the shallow thematic depths and the fact that the plot and character were more two-dimensional than the visuals. None of that took away from the cool monsters or the battle scenes or the glowing flora and fauna. The acting and writing wasn’t so terrible as to actually detract from the visual masterpiece, it just didn’t add anything to the film either. Had the emotion been there – had we been made to truly care about the characters, and to see them struggle, and to wonder what was going to happen rather than be able to so easily predict it every step of the way – I think this film would have truly been a great one.

Jonah Goldberg is right on the money here. Cameron wasn’t trying to be controversial. He was sailing in calm waters and he aimed to please. As an escapist jaunt in an alien world, it does please. It isn’t as revolutionary as other Cameron films like Aliens, nor does it have the emotional strength of many other epics, like Mel Gibson’s Braveheart. And speaking of Mel Gibson films, it certainly pales in comparison to Gibson’s marvelous Apocalypto.

In the end, Avatar is what it is – a fun ride if that’s all you’re looking for. It is, as Ross Douthat termed it, a “gorgeous disappointment.”

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Just another review - but Cameron could have used Mel Gibson's vision and really made a blockbuster movie. Avatar is a good movie overall in my opinion, could have been really great.

AK

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AmigoKumeyaay

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It was a fun movie, but it was just that. I don't really care if it wasn't as profound or artsy as some people thought it would be.

some movies are just fluff, movies that are meant to be enjoyed while you sit back eating popcorn. Avatar was such a film.

Going into this knowing it was a James Cameron film, I was expecting more "Terminator" than "Titanic" anyway

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