Avatar is possibly the most beautiful CGI movie ever!

[vlad321]

Reasonable said:

vlad321 said:
So a week has passed and I don't feel the usual epicness about this movie. Back when I first saw T2 or Aliens I felt they were epic way past a week, even right now (I still can't stop talking about how awesome District 9 was either). However all I have to say about Avatar was that it looked good and.... that's about it. For me it lacked some OOMPH I guess. Anyone else in the same boat or is it just me?

Well, clearly I do, but I'm getting tired of explaining why (not your fault BTW!).  I liked Avatar, and I really loved its visual presentation and certain scenes, but in the end, when you analyze it, the core story was totally unoriginal (except in setting) and didn't really offer anything most people won't have seen in other films or read in books.

Aliens felt fresh at the time, particularly as a sequel (which let's face it rarely feel fresh) while T2 mixed new effects and sights with a story that again felt reasonably fresh, particularly in its action beats.

What I find telling is that what most remains for me about Avatar after two viewings are certain purely visual scenes, Jake taming his mount and flying, his first experiences at night, the aftermath of the attack on the Home Tree.  Most of the scenes with dialogue were just faily forgetable.  Although I did enjoy Lang whether growling threats or holding his breath while seeking to bring down those daring to cross him, and call me a romantic but I did find the scene where Neytiri finally meets Jake 'in the flesh' to be interesting and a memorable image - I'd have liked to have had more interesting scenes between humans and Na'vi vs the by the numbers tale of someone from an advanced society going 'native' - particularly when that someone is a soldier.

But yeah, the story of Avatar simply isn't that strong, but visually it's amazing and I suspect for most its the visual images that will remain, rather than the story.

 

See I completely agree, I can only think of visual scenes when it comes to this movie.  However I am talking about an OOMPH. In Aliens it was duct taping a machine gun and a flame thrower. Everyone knew she was gonna go save newt, but what she did really exceeded expectations, even though she didn't use the contraption all that much. In T2 you had the Terminator with a minigun vs the entire police. Same thing, you knew he was gonna take care of it, I just didn't expect it to do it that way.

I'm not saying any of those scees made the movies as good, they didn't. In fact if the movies were just those they would have been pretty bad. However they did add that oomph that I keep repeating. Something I go and tell people about. With Avatar I can only talk about how good it looks, but can't speak of specific scenes which surpassed expectations. The closest thing we had was the final fight against the robot, but even that didn't surpass my expectations like those moements in T2 and Aliens (don't get me wrong it ws awesome, just not awesome enough). If I had to describe this movie in just a few words:

Gorgeous, but also doesn't surprise and just meets expectations. I guess that's my only problem with it.