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[Eagle Of Oz]

I saw it a few weeks ago, and, like.... wow!! Loved it, and would love to see it again!! I saw it in 3D.

 

[thenewageriseth]

IT WAS GREAT! xD

 

[lorrienorrie]

I saw this a few days ago, I really enjoyed it though I must say the 3d obviously enhanced my overall rating of what was a quite different plot.

 

[mina]

I saw it in I-max 3D. Visually- it was stunning. I was wowed.

The plot was horrid. It seriously reminded me of the Disney pocohontas movie- the daughter of the tribe saves the outsider and teaches him their ways and they fall in love and then work together to save their land from the ones the outsider brought with him. And some of the lines were really cheesy. And i felt sigoriney weaver over acted.

 

[Rosalila]

Best movie I've seen in a long time. Loved the aliens. They were beautiful.

 

[MoneyGuy]

Saw Avatar in 3D a couple of months ago. It was very good, but far from my favourite movie. Probably top 30. Hey, do you folks know that I-Max is a Canadian invention? Go, Canada.

 

[Tiberius]

I saw it in I-max 3D. Visually- it was stunning. I was wowed.

The plot was horrid. It seriously reminded me of the Disney pocohontas movie- the daughter of the tribe saves the outsider and teaches him their ways and they fall in love and then work together to save their land from the ones the outsider brought with him. And some of the lines were really cheesy. And i felt sigoriney weaver over acted.

I actually watrched Pocahontas shortly after watching avatar, and while the stories are very similar, Avatar did it much better.

 

[lutherangerman]

The movie was really really good. And I actually felt a greater need to dig into our christian faith ... because all the wonders of Pandora, the life there, the deep unity and meaning, I think can be found in our christianity, and then in paradise or on the New World after the Day of Judgment. Honestly, if you are a human, then the christian faith is your one true shot to experience a really wonderful life after death, and some of it before death. CS Lewis wrote that if we have such deep desires as expressed in this movie, and they cannot be fulfilled on this world, then it's very likely that we have been made for another world.

 

[Auhow]

I saw this movie a few weeks ago. I loved it. My 2nd favorite film of 2009.

 

[NULLARC-X]

Visually the movie was great, I do not understand the story though. It doesn't make any sense for a marine to betray humanity and side with some aliens. The marine in charge, his battle plan didn't make any sense either. Anyone with any idea of tactics or strategy would know not to fly into the one spot on the planet were ones sensors and targeting doesn't work...other then that I thought it was pretty good. I liked Sherlock Holmes better though.

 

[Iraqi Girl]

WHAT YOU WILL (choice)

1. AVATAR
2.TWILIGHT NEW MOON .

????
FOR ME (2)

 

[RonPrice]

The film Avatar has been out and about for four months(12/09 to 4/10) after being in development since 1994. I have read many reviews, listened to many comments and discussed it’s style and content with many both in cyberspace and in our wide-wide-world. This prose-poem tries to encapsulate some of my initial thoughts on this blockbuster, its initial reception and some of its meaning.

James Cameron, who wrote, produced and directed the film, stated in an interview that an avatar is: “an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form." In this film, though, avatar has more to do with human technology in the future being capable of injecting a human's intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body. "It's not an avatar in the sense of just existing as ones and zeroes in cyberspace,” said Cameron; “it's actually a physical body." The great student of myth, Joseph Campbell(1), should have been at the film’s premier in London on 10 December 2009. I wonder what he would have said.

Composer James Horner scored the film, his third collaboration with Cameron after Aliens and Titanic. A field guide of 224 pages for the film's fictional setting of the planet of Pandora was released by Harper Entertainment in late November 2009. The guide was entitled Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora. With an estimated $310 million to produce the film and $150 million for marketing, the film has generated a myriad positive reviews from film critics as well as its share of criticism especially over what many reviewers refer to as the film’s simplistic content.

Roger Ebert, one of the more prestigious of film critics, wrote: “An extraordinary film: Avatar is not simply sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough."-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 5 April 2010.

Like viewing Star Wars back in ’77
some said/an obvious script with an
earnestness & corniness/part of what
makes it absorbing/said another/Gives
you a world, a place/worth visiting/eh?

Alive with action and a soundtrack that
pops with robust sci-fi shoot-'em-ups...
A mild critique of American militarism
and industrialism.....yes the military are
pure evil........the Pandoran tribespeople
are nature-loving, eco-harmonious, wise
Braveheart smurf warriors. Received....
nominations for the Critics' Choice Awards
of the Broadcast Film Critics Association &
on and on go the recommendations for the..
best this and that and everything else. What
do you think of all this Joseph Campbell???

You said we all have to work our own myth(1)
in our pentapolar, multicultural-dimensional
world with endless phantoms of our wrongly
informed imagination, with our tangled fears,
our pundits of error, ill-equipped to interpret
the social commotion tearing our world apart
and at play on planetizing-globalizing Earth.(2)

(1)If readers google Joseph Campbell they can find some contemporary insights into the individualized myth that Campbell says we all have to work out in our postmodern world.
(2)The Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, has been presented as an avatar in India beginning, arguably, in the 1960s. There were only 1000 Baha’is in India in 1960 and now more than 2 million. Baha’u’llah has been associated in the Bahá'í teaching initiatives with the kalkin avatar who, according to a major Hindu holy text, will appear at the end of the kali yuga, one of the four main stages of history, for the purpose of reestablishing an era of righteousness.

There are many examples of what one might call a quasi-cross-cultural messianistic approach to Bahá'í teaching in India. This approach has included: (a) emphasizing the figures of Buddha and Krishna as past Manifestations of God or avatars; (b) making references to Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita, (c) the substitution of Sanskrit-based terminology for Arabic and Persian terms where possible; for example, Bhagavan Baha for Bahá'u'lláh, (d) the incorporation in both Bahá'í song and literature of Hindu holy spots, hero-figures and poetic images and (e) using heavily Sanskritized-Hindi translations of Baha'i scriptures and prayers.

Ron Price
5 April 2010

 

[christian74]

I use this Avatar Movie to convince "newbie Atheist" - that if creatures like them THINK a Spiritual entity, how much more we "HUMANS". It's a fact. even Richard Dawkins cannot deny that humans are created and HARDWIRED in Worshipping God.

 

[BondiHarry]

I thought Avatar was an excellent science fiction movie exploring a native culture which had values far different from the humans who had come to exploit their planets resources. It was in many ways a commentary on how men have raped the environment being far more concerned with the material wealth they had come to find than with the natives who had a wonderful oneness with that environment. The one glaring error I saw in the movie was Michelle Rodriguez' character who left the field without permission while a battle was in progress. The military takes a dim view of desertion and her character would have been arrested and put in the brig pending a courts martial rather than being left free to do what she does in the movie to further the plot.

 

[Tiberius]

I use this Avatar Movie to convince "newbie Atheist" - that if creatures like them THINK a Spiritual entity, how much more we "HUMANS". It's a fact. even Richard Dawkins cannot deny that humans are created and HARDWIRED in Worshipping God.

I doubt you have read anything in which Richard Dawkins said that humans were created in a non-evolutionary sense. Feel free to prove me wrong, however.