speak All of AVATAR. And all the way to go. Okay, now that was not a particularly skillful play on words but it certainly is true. If there is a movie of the hour, then it is the record-breaking AVATAR. Director James Cameron has left after TITANIC long time to once again conjure up a great movie on the big screen. He had planned to begin after his ocean-drama with the production of its long-held dream project. But the then-poor CGI possibilities stopped him. Only with the appearance of Gollum in THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS Cameron decided - so to legend - that it was time to let go AVATAR on mankind. Within a short time the science-fiction movie made it to No. 2 in the all-time best lists - just behind Titanic.
Here saw it at the beginning probably does not look that Standt AVATAR with a hit in the wings. For years, Cameron hypte the project itself by announcing that the special effects of the film everything that has been here should put to shame. And in 3D AVATAR would leave the competition far behind. Even better for the planet Pandora, which was the scene of the story, a whole new ecosystem created on the computer. Then came the trailer. The reactions were cautiously or disappointed. The scenes which the audience got to see at that time, looked like a video game, and what was evident from the plot seemed like a plate Ökofabel. Now is AVATAR - Pandora (Avatar, 2010) for a few weeks here and punish all the doubters (including me personally) from. How the film manages it?
"Yes, that is correct. We breed here Super Smurfs." The planet Pandora is a seeming paradise. Although its atmosphere is poisonous to humans, the world does with its dense forests, the incredible diversity of flora and fauna and their nature-loving indigenous people, the blue-skinned Na'vi, as one world, on the spread of man could never . Nevertheless, the inhabitants of planet Earth have cast an eye on Pandora. Only him to find the extremely rare and valuable material Unobtanium. Unfortunately, he comes straight from among the holy places of Na'vi. And you want to be a) can not move it and b) their places of worship not sacrifice the filthy lucre of the people. The mining company RDA developed a perfidious plan: The Avatar Project. In the test tube without consciousness Na'vi are grown, their DNA with the genes in each case a man was mixed. This is now in his mind that "Avatar" dine and thus break in enemy territory, to live there Na'vi it "convincing" that it would be better to let the natural resources of the people. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is one of the people who manage the blogs should, after his twin brother was killed, and now only he can take control of his avatar. The
intoxicated after an accident at the wheelchair-bound Sully from his first outings in his new body, he can run again, jump and move freely. Soon he finds access to the Na'vi and makes friends with the young warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). The more Sulley learns the culture of Na'vi, the more he falls in love with this alternative life. But in the home base is Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) impatient. He and the company directors Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) will not hesitate to expel the Na'vi by force from their homes when the should fail project "Avatar". Sully and Na'vi researcher Grace (Sigourney Weaver) is not much time.
Everyone asks about the effects, and I can say. "Yes, they are as good as you think" At no time do we have the impression that one is dealing with a special-effects extravaganza that is created on the computer. Although the actors have played mostly against green screens, they manage to totally convincing through jungles, caves, trees, mountains and space ships to travel and interact with the totally realistic and plastic-looking beings. The facial expressions and gestures of the Na'vi is completely convincing and with the emotions of the characters so well that one could increase the tears in his eyes. AVATAR should give yourself absolutely to 3D, since the technology - to develop the effects and beautifully put together pictures their full effect - apart from the general shortcomings of the system.
My first criticism, however, can not long in coming. For the flashy announced ecosystem of the planet Pandora, but this has yet surprisingly unimaginative. Basically, all animals and plants of that oh-so-strange world are heavily based on earthly life. Everything looks so like having horses, birds, cats, etc. crossed with dinosaurs and colorfully painted screaming. Similarly, the culture of Na'vi. Here I would have exactly what you wish for greater strangeness, so that the audience could understand Sulley initial reluctance, and would have opened together with the protagonists of the foreign beings. Aliens kiss? Laugh? Cry? Everything, like us humans? This works in STAR WARS, perhaps even in STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO, but in a film that wants to be oh so realistic, that is very clumsy.
The first twenty minutes AVATAR seemed to confirm my initial fears. Planting so horribly bad (in the constant "quality" appears repeatedly in the film) I would not expect in the most expensive movie ever made. In addition, the story is not very innovative. Similar with similar intentions, you've already seen dozens of times, and it only has to turn children's television (even if you should see there a few machine guns and battle-mechs). In addition, the action on several holes, screaming just asking for a extended version on DVD. This still join various logic errors, etc. Before louder technology gadgets James Cameron has apparently here geschludert the script and cut considerably. For cynics, the matter would be eaten with it, and AVATAR checked off.
"I do not understand. Why should I turn around?" But: It is not. James Cameron is able to knit from this naive story an epic, one pack and not let go. The exciting end leaves the viewer with a deep sense of satisfaction and is quite capable of encouraging the audience to seek something closer to nature. Most elements that Avatar is a deal would not in itself lame, naive and implausible. But together they develop a true cinematic experience, as it has not seen her for a while. I do not know how he manages, but it's like that. Perhaps this also bear the responsibility of actors who are here with great commitment, and the story amazing and carry forward. Everything is very classic, and although most of the characters already had x-times to see something like this, they help in conveying the story masterfully.
I'm using the pre-thoughts went to the movies to find a lame duck. I came with the image of a mighty eagle, high above the clouds out. Cameron has shown with his dream project that you can make a blockbuster brand of popcorn cinema on the legs, but has nevertheless something of a soul. It is really difficult to describe why AVATAR with all its problems does not fail, but a craft, and - yes, I say - artistic success is. Perhaps one can say it like this: A movie that comes from the U.S., and has such a positive, open-minded and embossed message of tolerance, while fantastic, maintains is just a real gem.
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