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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000
The storyline can be summed up in that the theme is "colonialism".
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Don't forget the theme of "Love your Mother Earth [Pandora]."
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Originally Posted by xomanadaxo
My friends nicknamed it "Dances with Smurfs"  |
LOL. About halfway through, I thought "this is just Dances with Gaia in the Matrix."
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Originally Posted by APhiAnna
I thought the story was fine. But what really blew me away were the graphics. It could have honestly just been two and a half hours of no plot at all and I still would have been content.
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See, for me the visuals can be
The Most Amazing Thing Ever, but it still fails as a movie if the story isn't well done. If all I'm looking for is visuals, I'll go to a museum . . . or actually into the world somewhere. But to my mind, the purpose of the astounding visuals in a movie is to serve the story. Here, there just wasn't that much story to serve. On the other hand, my 12-year-old and his friend
loved it because of the visuals. (That, and they hadn't seen "Dances With Wolves" yet.)
The visuals were very good -- some amazing and some overdone. But then, I don't think restraint is in James Cameron's vocabulary, nor is the idea that less can be more.
The story was ridiculously predictable. (Especially, as noted, if you've seen it before in "Dances With Wolves," "The Last Samurai," "Fern Gully," "Pocahontas," etc.) There literally wasn't a single surprise plot-wise. I could peg everything that was going to happen, including the ending (and the end shot).
I go with "meh."
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