Don't be a Plum

I figure I should do what everyone does who has a movie blog and review Avatar. The reason I want to review it is because I think it is actually a really good movie.

Of course, the main thing about this film is the technology. I was watching some interivews online, and the actor Laz Alonso, who played a Na’avi warrior, said that there were 197 cameras filming each scene, so the actors could mix in their performance with light and motion detectors, and then they could feed that into CGI and make them into aliens who move and talk and have the same facial expressions as the actors.  Hopefully if the movie is successful, it will be the first of a 3-D revolution that will change the way that we watch movies.

Everyone also says, and I think so too, that the story isn’t anything special. It’s basically like Pocohontas.  However, the acting is really great.  I feel like Zoe Saldana for example was completely in character and committed to her performance, and I appreciated that. Everyone was giving it their all, I felt.

If you want to know my recommendation, I would say watch the movie, but make sure that you have an open mind. A lot of people don’t like it beacuse they say it’s too simple and obvious.  I think if you’re making a movie with 200 cameras and all new technology, and you’re making a world that no one has ever seen before, you should make the story more simple so people can get used to it. Then, in the second and third movies, they can branch out even more in terms of the storyline.

–Plum

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