Thoughts on "Avatar" (someone turn it off!).

[Danny]

That's harsh, and a little unfair TBH. What Cameron did do is invest a lot of time in Pandora and it's life. Didn't seem like a waste of time to me... Its not meant to be harsh its meant to be my honest opinion. What cameron did well was the little things, like the skin on the naavi looking so real, but the world was underwhelming and unoriginal and just didnt wow me. For comparison in terms of visuals heres an example of something recent that did wow me from final fantasy 13: Course thats because ive seen the floaty rocks and weird jungle stuff in games and films for at least 25 years previous to avatar, again just rehashing things ive seen before. Everything about avatar can be summed up for me in one sentence "It looks nice but nothing about it i havent already seen before".

[MinionZombie]

I look forward to seeing Avatar again - but I'm holding out for an extras-laden DVD release in an extended cut to do so. For me at least, the main point with Avatar is that it transports you to another world - Pandora - (technically a moon), and it successfully does that in spades.

[Neil]

Its not meant to be harsh its meant to be my honest opinion. What cameron did well was the little things, like the skin on the naavi looking so real, but the world was underwhelming and unoriginal and just didnt wow me. For comparison in terms of visuals heres an example of something recent that did wow me from final fantasy 13: Course thats because ive seen the floaty rocks and weird jungle stuff in games and films for at least 25 years previous to avatar, again just rehashing things ive seen before. Everything about avatar can be summed up for me in one sentence "It looks nice but nothing about it i havent already seen before". "The world was underwhelming and unoriginal" - Fair enough... Maybe we have different "whelming" and "original" brackets Even little things like the insects that span to get away impressed me And that was one of my other half's "wow" moments too... There seemed just a lot of attention to detail that I for one appreciated. As for that clip of Final Fantasy 13... Ummm to me that just comes across as nothing but "Fantasy" - I can't buy into it so easily. Where as Cameron's Pandora felt a lot more thought through and at least somewhat believable - if you're willing to give it some lea-way. ...anyway... If this proves anything... It's 'each to their own' ps: In that clip, the graphics are impressive. Just the people themselves don't look real...

[Danny]

As for that clip of Final Fantasy 13... Ummm to me that just comes across as nothing but "Fantasy" - I can't buy into it so easily. Where as Cameron's Pandora felt a lot more thought through and at least somewhat believable - if you're willing to give it some lea-way. it was the opposite for me, in the ff13 clip we see a fantasy world but theres nothing completely crazy - considering its a world involving magic, whereas things like the "fwump!" umbrella plants in avatar where cartoons and seemed out of place in a film attempting to be serious.