Movie: 'Avatar'
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Watched James Cameron’s flick “Avatar” and didn’t enjoy it. When it comes to successfully bringing imagination live on the screen, I would give him 10/10, but are not movies to enjoy? I found it too emotionless, too weird (characters were awful to watch), and so typical a storyline (team goes to exploit the unexploited; conflict arises in team, lady members are humanistic and in the end mother earth/planet is saved). One interesting part is that the fictional Navis are too ‘human like’; just giving them a tail doesn’t help. On a weird thought, the main character looks like Lord Ram; I guess somewhere they have taken inspiration from Him (The Navi's body is blue, eyes wide and he uses bows and arrows.) Though of course the characters are very weird looking.
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I had heard about this movie first when someone asked for the director’s written declaration at the beginning of the movie that “avatar” doesn’t have any relation with Hinduism per se. But I see that the director was sure about what he was doing. In a 2007 interview with Time magazine, Cameron addressed the meaning of the film’s title, answering the question “What is an avatar, anyway?” with “It’s an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form. In this film what that means is that the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human’s intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body.”
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Many people will call this 'avatar' a marvel; and many will sing its praises. But at least I didn't enjoy spending time in front of weird characters making tribal wars and some video game look-alike scenes.
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I love my Rocket Singh!:)
Watched James Cameron’s flick “Avatar” and didn’t enjoy it. When it comes to successfully bringing imagination live on the screen, I would give him 10/10, but are not movies to enjoy? I found it too emotionless, too weird (characters were awful to watch), and so typical a storyline (team goes to exploit the unexploited; conflict arises in team, lady members are humanistic and in the end mother earth/planet is saved). One interesting part is that the fictional Navis are too ‘human like’; just giving them a tail doesn’t help. On a weird thought, the main character looks like Lord Ram; I guess somewhere they have taken inspiration from Him (The Navi's body is blue, eyes wide and he uses bows and arrows.) Though of course the characters are very weird looking.
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I had heard about this movie first when someone asked for the director’s written declaration at the beginning of the movie that “avatar” doesn’t have any relation with Hinduism per se. But I see that the director was sure about what he was doing. In a 2007 interview with Time magazine, Cameron addressed the meaning of the film’s title, answering the question “What is an avatar, anyway?” with “It’s an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form. In this film what that means is that the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human’s intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body.”
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Many people will call this 'avatar' a marvel; and many will sing its praises. But at least I didn't enjoy spending time in front of weird characters making tribal wars and some video game look-alike scenes.
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I love my Rocket Singh!:)
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