Despite the obvious flaws in this movie, I enjoyed it more than any other movie I've seen this year.

This is how good Avatar is. The flaws doesn't matter to me(the so-so story, sometimes boring dialogues, sometimes too preachy, some questionables actions and motives that doesn't fit, bad acting from few of the actors/actresses.) The effects gave life to this story, made it artsy and at least it has a decent enough story. So unlike transformers where the story and effects are so terrible.

For me

Storywise
D9>Basterds>Avatar>Star Trek

"Fun factor" wise
Basterds>Star Trek>Avatar>D9

Entertainment factor
Avatar>Basterds>D9>Star Trek

Overall cinema experience
Avatar>D9>Star Trek>Basterds

For me la. =D

The effects are still part of the movie just as much as the story or action or music.

If the movie is a chicken chop, the story would be a chicken while the effects would be the sauce.

Transformers would be like having a chicken chop with eatable sauce and rotten chicken.

Avatar is like a chicken chop with normal chicken and ambrosiac sauce. The storyline, acting and dialogue are not great, but they're still decent enough and better than most other movies out there.

This post has been edited by crashoverride: Dec 20 2009, 09:34 PM

Pandora's solar system is 4 light years ++ away from our solar system. The humans need 5 years to reach, so it's not really FTL. Maybe it's near-light speed.

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Added on December 21, 2009, 1:55 am

Agree with you that it doesn't need to be explained in this movie. Look at Pulp Fiction, the "stuff" in the briefcase was never shown too. Maybe when unobtainium has something to do with the main plot of the next few movies, they will gonna explain it.

This post has been edited by crashoverride: Dec 21 2009, 01:55 AM

quote from some guy who posted a comment on roger ebert's site.



=D. This is why Quetin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese are great directors. It's the whole experience and the story-telling that matters.

This post has been edited by crashoverride: Dec 21 2009, 04:42 AM

It has subtitles if the director wants you to understand the navi dialogue. At the beginning there are no subtitles when the navi spoke, as maybe the director wants to give out a sense of mystery or exoticness of the navi and maybe wants you to interpret the meaning yourself. But later subtitles do appear in some scenes.

RealD is used in TGV. Vertical/Horizontal light Polarized glasses, makes it a bit dim for people who are not used to it.

Dolby 3D is used in GSC. Green/Red Polarized glasses, no effect on the brightness.

Edit: Just went for Avatar 3D for the 3rd time, 2nd time in TGV Sunway Pyramid. Same theatre, but different projector. This time they used dolby 3D. WTH.

This post has been edited by crashoverride: Dec 23 2009, 06:35 AM