Who cares about the plot? It's beautiful. Amazingly, wonderfully, brilliantly beautiful.
There is a wonderfully realistic, fully immersive, 3D environment right outside my office window right now, but I don't care.
Want to know why?
Because the plot is boring. I get out of my chair, walk to my car, go to the gas-station, and then go home to play with my dog and go to bed.
The end.
People go to movies because it is better than reality. Perhaps those who never leave their couch are wowed by images that look exactly like reality, but Avatar's visual effects wowed me only in a "well, it looks like they finally did it properly!" sense. No offense to anyone who worked on this film, it is a staggering technical achievement, but it doesn't really do anything that reality doesn't.
/this might be due to my being a bit bitter that I can't see the 3D version due to my non-stereoscopic vision :(.
> but it doesn't really do anything that reality doesn't.
Apparently you live on Pandora,
where you can look at the office window right now and see the alien planet with floating mountains, giant six legged carnivores, pack hunters, bio-luminescent forests, two kinds (count them 2) of flying dragons and 12 foot tall blue skinned people with tails and braids with autonomous nerve endings at the end that can mentally bond with all of the above (sans the flying mountains).
There is a wonderfully realistic, fully immersive, 3D environment right outside my office window right now, but I don't care.
Want to know why?
Because the plot is boring. I get out of my chair, walk to my car, go to the gas-station, and then go home to play with my dog and go to bed.
The end.
People go to movies because it is better than reality. Perhaps those who never leave their couch are wowed by images that look exactly like reality, but Avatar's visual effects wowed me only in a "well, it looks like they finally did it properly!" sense. No offense to anyone who worked on this film, it is a staggering technical achievement, but it doesn't really do anything that reality doesn't.
/this might be due to my being a bit bitter that I can't see the 3D version due to my non-stereoscopic vision :(.