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.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      As probably horrible a monkey's paw wish it might be, an Avatar RTS would look and maybe even play amazing the way Dune did in the start of the genre.

      • 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.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Arguably, the RTS game genre's roots go back to a game called Dune 2 in the early 90s.

      • 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
          spoiler

          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.