This article is about the largely world-wide anticipated movie of the year, James Cameron's Avatar. Deemed to be return of legendary filmmaker, James Cameron after a decade, who have brought such great films as Terminator, Aliens, the f*cking awesome Terminator 2 and the average Titanic. Now with a concept that was 14 years in development, Cameron describe this film as "revolutionary" and "game changing", a totally new science fiction opus that we have never seen before.
First of all, I wasn't very hyped up by this film from the beginning and never knew what is it really about, but I kind of envisioned that it was going to be that one-of-a-kind movie. A film that came out of nowhere and blew the pants out of everyone, like The Dark Knight and District 9. It was going to be 2001: Space Odyssey all over again. And man....
How disappointed I am with this film. Realized that it is just another war film between human and CG aliens. With lame CG. The first few seconds was interesting as it sets up a brand new live-action setting with marine soldiers occupying the lands. Marine put his mind inside of an weird looking alien, which is an odd thing to look at. And then suddenly we're thrust into a Pixar/Dreamworks movie. The transition between these two worlds weren't smooth and very awkward. The design and textures of these cat aliens doesn't blend well and this is when the disadvantage of 3D animations and live action hybrid come to play. While a hybrid of 2D animation and live-action can get away by looking absolutely comedic, cartoony and fantastical, the purpose of 3D animations in a live-action is to look as real or as the term "photo-realistic" as possible in order for the film to work. Comedic and children films can loosen the realism of the CG, but for a drama and action film like this, the CG have to be believable and top notch for the audience to ride along with the story. This film would have either been a fully animated film or a live action film. Especially when this film's hype have been set so high, there is so much deliver. In this case, it is a step back. Already people are complaining that the CG being too close to a video game cutscene and I understand them. It does look like the latest X-Box 360 game.
This is the poor man's version of District 9. And I know the film's concept came before D9, but this is James Cameron and a 300 million dollar budget. They better step up their game.
Watch the trailer below.
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