allround geek

pseudo-random mamblings about technology, games, movies and more...

  • Posts

  • Home
  • Games
  • Technology
  • Movies
  • Retro
  • Google
  • Apple
  • Linux
  • Weird

AVATAR review

Wednesday, December 16, 2009


After many months of waiting, today was the day we finally visited Pandora. And what a wonderful trip it was!

James Cameron's first fiction film since Titanic is a unique cinematic experience. Cameron (with the help of many talented people who deserve just as much credit) has managed to create a world so rich and full of details that you can't help but get lost in it for the 160 minutes of Avatar's runtime.

The first 15-20 of those minutes are a bit tricky because that's how long it will take your brain to a) get used to the 3D and b) be convinced that those tall blue people are real! After that you just get immersed to the incredible jungles of Pandora marvelling at the images that pass before your eyes.

"You'll believe people are blue!"

This of course does not mean that the movie is perfect. Anyone who has watched the trailer (or any movie with Indians/natives being oppressed by white people) pretty much knows the story from start to finish. A little originality would be welcomed here, but at least the story (although clichéd) is well executed so it didn't bother me that much as I was watching it.

James Cameron is back and he is in top form. Follow him to a theatre (preferably 3D, IMAX 3D even better!) and you're in for a hell of a ride!



Digg this
posted by:Eraserheadx

11:30 PM | Labels: 3D, Avatar, James Cameron, Movies |  

This entry was posted on 11:30 PM and is filed under 3D , Avatar , James Cameron , Movies . You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

 

3 comments:

ebenet said...

Cheers for the review! It seems actually to me that all reviews that I've read unanimously agree on the film's strengths/weaknesses. I'll probably be posting mine tomorrow, after witnessing the IMAX experience... :>

December 17, 2009 12:21 AM
Hotshuk said...

This movie is going to be mind blowing in IMAX. The AllRoundGeeks are jealous, ebenet!

December 17, 2009 10:40 AM
mastorak said...

Avatar kicked some serious terran-ass! I finally saw it with 5 days delay. IT WAS AWESOME!!! Truly entertaining in the most sincere meaning of the word. It was the most impressive film i 've seen in years . And the classic story did not bother me one bit. I actually liked the story very much. Classic stories are called classic for a reason and accompanied with a visually and literally rich world they kick ass!

December 22, 2009 1:17 PM

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


Get your geek feeds

Click icon to subscribe

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

  • Recent Posts

    Search allround geek

    Loading...

    Subscribe To

    Posts
    Atom
    Posts
    Comments
    Atom
    Comments
  • Pick your geek category

    • Video Games
    • IT & Technology
    • Movies
    • Retro
    • Google
    • Apple
    • Linux
    • Weird

    Recent Comments

    Labels

    • 007
    • 2K9
    • 300
    • 3D
    • A Nightmare Before Christmas
    • A Serious Man
    • action
    • Adventure Games
    • age of conan
    • AGP
    • ai
    • Alan Moore
    • albion
    • Alien
    • Anime
    • Antichrist
    • Apple
    • Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • artificial inteligence
    • aspyr
    • ATI
    • Avatar
    • Bad Lieutenant
    • batman
    • battle.net
    • battlestar galactica
    • Beta
    • Bethesda
    • Bioshock
    • Black Dynamite
    • Blade Runner
    • Blaxploitation
    • Blizzard
    • Blu-Ray
    • Body of Lies
    • Brad Pitt
    • Brett Ratner
    • Brit Report
    • Bruce Willis
    • bug
    • C/C++
    • Cate Blanchett
    • censorship
    • china
    • Christopher Lee
    • Christopher Nolan
    • Cinema
    • civilization
    • cloud computing
    • codecs
    • Coen Brothers
    • comics
    • computers
    • Conan
    • consoles
    • copy protection
    • Coraline
    • crossover
    • Cult
    • cyberpunk
    • Daniel Craig
    • Darren Aronofsky
    • David Fincher
    • Defender of the Crown
    • demake
    • Di Caprio
    • diablo 2
    • Diablo 3
    • die welle
    • District 9
    • documentary
    • Dolby 3D
    • Drag Me To Hell
    • DRM
    • Duncan Jones
    • eeepc
    • electric guitar
    • Enterprise
    • Ethan Coen
    • Euler
    • Evil Dead
    • Expendables
    • fallout
    • fallout 3
    • firefox
    • flight simulator
    • FPS
    • Frank Miller
    • Free Internet
    • free speech
    • funny
    • Gabriel Knight
    • Gabriel Knight 2: The beast within
    • gakai
    • game distribution
    • game with fame
    • games
    • Gene Roddenberry
    • german film
    • gmail
    • god of war
    • google
    • Google bomb
    • Google Chrome
    • Google Chrome OS
    • grand theft auto
    • Graphics Cards
    • Guy Richie
    • Gypsy Curses
    • Half life 2
    • hardware problem
    • Henry Selick
    • horror
    • i have no mouth and i must scream
    • id software
    • IMAX
    • In Bruges
    • independent film
    • independent games
    • independent games festival
    • Indiana Jones
    • Inglourious basterds
    • interactive fiction
    • interactive movies
    • Internet
    • interview
    • Iron Man
    • iTunes
    • James Bond
    • James Cameron
    • japan
    • Jason Statham
    • java
    • Jeff Bridges
    • Jet Li
    • Joen Coen
    • Kevin Spacey
    • lan party
    • laptops
    • Lars Von Trier
    • last.fm
    • Led Zeppelin
    • Leonardo DiCaprio
    • Linux
    • loom
    • Lord of the rings online
    • Lucas Arts
    • mac
    • macbook
    • Max Payne
    • Megan Fox
    • metallica
    • Mickey Rourke
    • Microsoft
    • minefield
    • MMORPG
    • Monkey Island
    • Moon
    • Movie Clip
    • Movies
    • mozilla
    • music
    • Neil Gaiman
    • netbooks
    • Next Generation
    • Nicolas Cage
    • nintendo
    • Nintendo DS
    • nintendo dsi
    • Nvidia
    • Office
    • Office Web
    • old computers
    • OLPC
    • onlive
    • Open Office
    • open source
    • Oscars
    • outage
    • pay what you want
    • Pirate Bay
    • Pirates
    • Pixar
    • playstation
    • Police brutality
    • Politics
    • poster
    • Prince of Persia
    • programming
    • PS2
    • PS3
    • Pyschological Thriller
    • python
    • quake
    • quake live
    • Quentin Tarantino
    • quick time
    • RealD
    • red dead redemption
    • relaxing
    • retro
    • Ricardo Montalban
    • Ridley Scott
    • Robert Downey Jr.
    • RocknRolla
    • rockstar games
    • rpg
    • Sam Raimi
    • Sam Rockwell
    • Science Fiction
    • SciFi
    • Scorsese
    • search engines
    • Shutter Island
    • Sid Meier
    • Sierra
    • Sony
    • Spectrum
    • Star Trek
    • Star Wars
    • Starcraft 2
    • Starwars uncut
    • steam
    • Steve Jobs
    • Stop Motion
    • stops reading disks
    • strategy games
    • subscription
    • summer
    • super heroes
    • supercomputer
    • Suse
    • Sylvester Stallone
    • Tag power of paint
    • Technology
    • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    • The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
    • The Lovely Bones
    • The Road
    • The Wolfman
    • The Wrestler
    • Tim Burton
    • Top sellers
    • Trailer
    • TRON
    • tunguska
    • tv series
    • U2
    • ubuntu
    • Up
    • usb prosthetic
    • Valve
    • VectorLinux
    • Venice Film Festival
    • vlc
    • Watchmen
    • We are Linux
    • website
    • weird
    • Werner Herzog
    • Wes Anderson
    • White Stripes
    • wii
    • Windows
    • windows 7
    • Wine
    • wing commander
    • WolframAlpha
    • Wolverine
    • world of goo
    • World of Warcraft
    • Wrath of the lich king
    • X-files
    • X-Men
    • xbox 360
    • XO-1
    • XpanD
    • yahoo
    • YouTube
    • Zack Snyder
    • Zune
    TopOfBlogs

allround geek © 2008-2009