I don’t have words.

The movie is just non-stop humans being absolute colonizer monsters and the people (and creatures) of Pandora, who want to live in peace, being forced to fight back (and kicking human ass).

The movie lives and dies by it’s visual effects and by god are they incredible. Pandora is just such a beautiful world, and Cameron lets you experience it in all its beauty and unity and peace before he shows the ugly human machines and weapons kill and destroy it. You feel the pain and the righteous anger when the Navi fight back. I was cheering for every human death of which there are many.

Is the story perfect? Nah. There are points where it’s cliche etc but I don’t mind that. There is a larger story about nature and colonisation and that’s what matters so much more. Pandora is a world that can fight back because the world itself is alive and connected and god just imagine if Earth was like that.

I’m definitely gonna see it again and I’m super pumped for the sequels.

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I really cannot overstate how awesome the world of Pandora looks. It’s the perfect blend of real life nature and fantasy nature. Same goes for the military tech too.

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        • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Oh man. Dune.

          I need to see it again to figure out if I like it more than Avatar 2. The visuals I mean. Story wise obviously Dune is much deeper etc.

          But visuals? Oh man, that’s close.

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        • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          DUNE 2 THOUGH

          BEFORE THE GENRE GOT FUCKED UP BY 2 BILLION APM STARCRAFT NONSENSE

      • Phish [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        Some really cool sci-fi stuff. The crab submarines were probably my favorite.

        • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I think this movie really made it clear just how vast the human colonisation operation is. It’s scary.

          spoiler

          The fucking entry with those spaceships by god. That was terrifying. Humans really did go interstellar and decided to be evil dickheads.

          • Phish [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago
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            I thought the first movie was fairly underrated from a sci-fi perspective. This one absolutely expanded on that. Some of the best sci-fi machinery I've seen. The ships landing was surreal and horrifying. The evil corporation is one of my favorite things about the Alien universe and I'm glad to see a similar presence in Avatar.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      We’re lucky he just wants to make cool art and look at fish. If James Cameron wanted to rule the world he could

      Let's be real, he'd do a better job than the current bunch of :porky-happy:s