I have been to Dubai this weekend (for us the weekend is thursday friday) with my colleagues and we had different agendas for thr trip..mine was to watch AVATAR in IMAX and celebrate Xmass eve in some happening place and I must say that both of the above wishes got fulfilled.
AVATAR is crowned as the most expensive movie ($500 mil) made in the history of cinema and I think it will remain so for atleast a couple of years unless James Cameron or Rolland Emmerich decide to make something more grander and more FUNtastic.The credit for the success of the movie should go to James Cameron and his special FX team (who I think managed to create whatever James Cameron envisioned inside his head) and the bosses of 20th century fox who trusted/backed/funded James Cameron for making this GIANT of a movie.I have not seen anything before that could rival the IMAX-3D experience of watching AVATAR (I am 101 % honest about this statement).I felt like I was in the middle of whats happening onscreen (thanks to the magic of 3D which I am sure is the most HAPPENING thing in Visual Media arena now).The below is my review abt the movie..If u think I am exagerating then I wud request you to watch the movie in a theater with decent A/V system (like SATHYAM theater in chennai or the IMAX'es in Pune,Hyderabad or elsewhere).
The action takes place in AD-2154 and the main venue of the action is a planet called PANDORA which is populated by the Na'vi people.A billionnaire entrepreneur hires a team of scientists to tame the people of Na'vi and to find a way to ensure their cooperation to start mining operations in Pandora to dig out a precious metal that fetches $20 Mil/Kg in the international market.He also hires a team of highly trained mercenaries (Ex-US MARINES) as back up in case the scientists fails to ensure the Na'vi cooperation.The team of scientists are headed by Sigourney Weaver who is also an authority in the field of Na'vi way life and culture.They have created replicas of Na'vi like people (Lab-made and lifeless) and can give life to them by transferring the energy from human beings…so that "Na'vi" will have the body of a Na'vi and character of human being whose energy is bonded to it.This project is called the AVATAR project and they intend to send this clones to PANDORA to mingle with the natives and to become one of them so that they will be able to persuade the Na'vi's to allow mining operations.Jake Sully(Sam Worthington) is the main candidate and he is an EX-Marine (Paralysed below the waist) and is the twin brother of the scientist (who died before the movie begins) who was supposed to go to the Na'vi.
Jake Sully ventures into the forests of Pandora in his Avatar persona ….we are treated with breath taking vista of Pandora's forests…self illuminating plants and flies and many other magnificent creatures which will make us jaws drop….he was attacked by some dog like creatures (its like the dogs in Resident Evil movie but more vicious and agile) and suddenly a Na'vi huntress (I think that’s Zoe Saldana in her Na'vi getup) appears in the scene and she manages to protect Jake from the attack but she was very sad that she had to kill one of the creature..coz its becoz of Jake's ignorance that he got attacked and the fault lies with Jake rather than the creatures….she takes him to the head of their clan (Her dad) and siad that he is approved by Eowah (Maybe a variation of the ancient YEHVEH or JEHOVAH)…then her mom (A shaman or seer of the clan) asks her to teach him the Na'vi language and the ways of their life….the more he learns the more he starts empathising with the people and realises that the place where the Mineral deposit is found is actually the most sacred place of the Na'vis and that they wont allow anyone to desecrate the site…..he is in a dilemma…whether to support his team of human beings or should support the Na'avi people who accepted him as one of their own (btw…by this time he manged to fall in love with his tutor and make love) and the rest of the story is about what happens between the Human beings and the people of Na'vi….
My opinion
1) This is the best visual experience you will ever get watching a movie (atleast in the near future)
2) James Cameron has proved that "HE IS THE KING OF THE WORLD" (atleast the celluloid world)
3) Every penny spent is well spent and you could see all that on screen…
4) Despite the criticsm that it lacks in emotional content I felt that its more emotional than most of the movies I have seen..and like Ram Gopal Varma said in his blog…you don’t see the emotions coz u are awestruck by the visual treat happening on screen.
5) Watching the movie in small screen will be an injustice…you have to watch it in the biggest screen possible with the best audio system..and according to me I am lucky to watch it in an IMAX screen and in 3D format (nothing beats that experience)
6) Every scene that happens in Pandora can be screen captured and made into a PICTURE POST CARD…that’s the beauty of the frames…be it floating mountains…beautiful waterfalls…brightly colored/flurocent flying beings and plants…
7) If you think my review is not as good as my previews reviews then its coz I have tooooo much to write about the movie and I cant find enough superlatives to fill the pages…
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