AVATAR
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I saw the movie today in Imax 3D .
This movie is sick. DOPE. The Siccness.
A cinematic achievement.
A lot of talent involved.
God did it again.
Humans have come a long way.
Some, real narrow minded people might not like it. Especially if the miss out on IMAX 3D. Some might not have access to it.
EVERYBODY should see it.
These lloyds should step their neuron game up. LOL .
This movie is sick. DOPE. The Siccness.
A cinematic achievement.
A lot of talent involved.
God did it again.
Humans have come a long way.
Some, real narrow minded people might not like it. Especially if the miss out on IMAX 3D. Some might not have access to it.
EVERYBODY should see it.
These lloyds should step their neuron game up. LOL .
Visually and technology-wise…amazing. The film did not start the 3d revolution people have been raving about, but I will say Cameron might have thrown the first brick.
The story is a hackneyed one… The greedy, technologically superior -yet emotionally/spiritually weak- colonizers attempt to take from the primitive –spiritually sound- aboriginals, and lose one of their kind who defects to the ways of the natives and assumes their goals. Standard Sci-fi…eh, whatever.
I didn’t give a shit about that, what was awesome about the narrative was the inclusion of the mechs, avatars, and the physical neural connection the Na’vi’ had with an omniscient planet (in the vein of Solaris). What’s so cool about that? The question of mediation, a question that arrives when we indulge in any media…how is my experienced being filtered through certain processes? Even though we watch the film as spectators, we, as the viewer, take Jake Sully as an avatar, who has his Na’vi as an avatar, and when he plugs into the geo-neural network or bio-neural networks of Na’vi, take on yet another avatar. This causes multiple steps of mediation, mirroring the process, taking place when we sit in a movie theater and watch lead characters, et cetera. This exploration of mediation, voyeurism in the form of an avatar brings up questions for the filmmaking in general and science-fiction as a genre and its purpose.
Science-fiction quandaries that were raised because of the avatar… what is a true human, do we have souls, the morality of “creating” life and many more. There were a lot more interesting questions I think the film brought up (excluding any morality questions concerning nations raping and pillaging others), it provided a cognitive experience for those into film and filmmaking and not just movies.
I would give it a B, for introducing new technology to the film world, looking and sounding amazing, for having a boring story but still hitting on some good questions sci-fi and film wise.
The story is a hackneyed one… The greedy, technologically superior -yet emotionally/spiritually weak- colonizers attempt to take from the primitive –spiritually sound- aboriginals, and lose one of their kind who defects to the ways of the natives and assumes their goals. Standard Sci-fi…eh, whatever.
I didn’t give a shit about that, what was awesome about the narrative was the inclusion of the mechs, avatars, and the physical neural connection the Na’vi’ had with an omniscient planet (in the vein of Solaris). What’s so cool about that? The question of mediation, a question that arrives when we indulge in any media…how is my experienced being filtered through certain processes? Even though we watch the film as spectators, we, as the viewer, take Jake Sully as an avatar, who has his Na’vi as an avatar, and when he plugs into the geo-neural network or bio-neural networks of Na’vi, take on yet another avatar. This causes multiple steps of mediation, mirroring the process, taking place when we sit in a movie theater and watch lead characters, et cetera. This exploration of mediation, voyeurism in the form of an avatar brings up questions for the filmmaking in general and science-fiction as a genre and its purpose.
Science-fiction quandaries that were raised because of the avatar… what is a true human, do we have souls, the morality of “creating” life and many more. There were a lot more interesting questions I think the film brought up (excluding any morality questions concerning nations raping and pillaging others), it provided a cognitive experience for those into film and filmmaking and not just movies.
I would give it a B, for introducing new technology to the film world, looking and sounding amazing, for having a boring story but still hitting on some good questions sci-fi and film wise.
