Before you read my beautifully written rant on Avatar, you have to check out pictures from my excursion today with Nelsa to – drum roll please – The Botanical Gardens at Golden Gate Park.
Look at these geezers
Hiding
Cutie Pie!
Dinofake!
Found the DNA in a amberized mosquito
Ok, now that you have gazed at those shots, let me give you my first impression of the Cameron movie. Actually, before any of that, I should warn you that I’m probably going to spoil the hell out of this movie for you. So if you have not seen it yet, stop reading now. That doesn’t mean that there are actually going to be spoilers from here on out. It’s just that (1) it’s late here, (2) I don’t feel like editing what I’m going to write, and (3) I’m incredibly lazy. So, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
ok: SPOILER ALERT below!
This movie is well worth it. It’s the ruby-red. cherry gem on this steaming pile of dung ice cream sundae we’ve been calling movies of the 21st century. Classic wastes such as, Old Dogs, Ninja Assassins, and, yes, Twilight What’s His Face.
Avatar was just different. Right away I was caught in the story and setting, although I have to admit I was getting pretty bored during the middle. Pretty much through all of the sped-through scenes where the protagonist, Jake, learns to walk and hunt like the Africans. I mean Na’vi. Is that short for Native American? I don’t know. Whatever.
Visually? This movie was spectacular. I really think it’s one of the few movies that has actually gone this far. We should be able to take advantage of this technology to make more movies like this, in a shorter amount of time. I mean, Cameron took 8 years to do this? That makes perfect sense. But it means that someone else can do it faster. Until 15 years from now, my little nephew will be able to create his little 5 minute 3D clips and upload them to www.wetube.thefuturecom.
It’s all happening too fast. Now to tell you something you couldn’t read somewhere else. Regardless, of how I may have loved this movie. It left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. It all started when the humans (here: all white Americans by the way. What was up with that? I can go on about this little quirk for hours…) destroyed the giant ass tree on the Smurf Planet. I mean, this thing was huge. Never mind that it housed 100s of these Blue Natives. That just added to me feeling depressed as hell. But this tree, straight up, this tree was miles in circumference. It was impossibly massive. And within 4 minutes it was down. Just like that.
Timber.
What the hell man? Ok, so at this point I’ve completely lost all hope. There is no way they can rebuild this tree. It’s not a house. It took thousands of years to grow and just like that, gone. I’m sure this did not have the same effect on everyone else. But it depressed the hell out of me. So I crossed my fingers that something cheerful will happen later on. But I knew, deep down inside of me, that there was nothing that was going to bring that tree back.
In the end, the humans are defeated, killed, and/or arrested. A lot of blue people die. And the main character decides to switch species completely (why was this possible?), as if that was the only way to really cope with the issue. Just give up on humanity.
Besides all of that, the movie had some great points. I really liked the leading female scientist character. I even appreciated that Cameron didn’t have anyone explain how any of that was possible. Science Fiction movies lose their taste really fast for me when they toss up a “Science Faction” cloak. Just throw me into the setting and the story. If I don’t keep up, it’s my own damn fault.
The movie really only had one or two explanatory points, which if you had a brain would tell you that the entire blue planet was like a giant brain. This was cool, and sort of explained why all of the plants were lighting up.Electrical signal transduction they said. And then left it at that.
Overall, this movie is well worth it. Don’t waste your time with the dung heap ice cream. Go straight for the cherry.
