3D:
I watched the film twice in 3D, every time being able to really grasp and feel the visuals. This film looks beautiful, it is a wonder how far a long we have come in technology. James Cameron went through a lot perfecting his new camera system and motion capturing system for this film. All that hard work has payed off, considering this is the most expensive movie ever made, with a budget supposedly over 350 million, but raking in the highest grossing movie ever title beating out his own film Titanic. But, was the wait worth it? He has been working on this film for 9 years and it has been over ten years since the Titanic sunk and killed the box office.
For me this film is all about visuals and lacks any good story telling. This film was very predictable just from the trailers. Sure, somethings were a bit imaginative such as creature design and the jungle areas that most of the film inhabits. But your telling me we are taking over a planet basically for a modern day diamond and we are willing to wipe out a species to get it. It's a bit off if you ask me, the hippies of the future would have surely stopped you if the blue people can. Compared to Cameron's other films, this story lacks the genius that he can normally deliver to his films. Don't tell me you've never watched Terminator with your friends and have had a discussion about time travel and what affects the different plains of existence within the different time periods by the different actions done by the people who come back in time. In Avatar though, everyone comes out of the theater talking about how good it looked, but there was no substance and that is what kept this movie from getting the big award at the Oscars (It didn't deserve the nomination if you ask me).
Performance wise, everyone is pretty good at what they do. I happen to enjoy Sam Worthington (Jake Sully) but I think he has yet to have a film where he can really prove his worth. Zoe Saldana is great as Sam's alien lover, Neytiri. I think the best performance was by far, Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch, he really brings that grunt feeling and is great as a savage Colonel hellbent on taking the Na'vi out. Everyone else just brings their normal flavor and pulls off there characters well, but there isn't one role that felt like a career changing performance.
2D:
This will be brief as I've already touched my issues with the story. I watched this on Blu-Ray, everything that was great about watching it in 3D is thrown right out the window with this release. With the lack of the 3D, this film's animations and overall CGI looks terrible. Everything looks very fake compared to what the 3D version brought to the table. Gone is this amazing forest where I feel like I could run around and eat some of these enormous mushrooms and perhaps take a trip to wonderland. Instead I'm watching Ferngully 2.0, everything that made this movie good to me is gone. I couldn't even finish watching the Blu-ray because the story is just so vastly uninteresting and predictable.
THE VERDICT: Watch this in 3D on the big screen, or just watch Ferngully and Pocahontas back to back. And if your a Cameron fan, you know the classics, just watch 'em you'll feel a whole lot better about the man.
3D: I give it a B+ for amazing visuals.
2D: I give it a C- because I don't care for anything in the story and the visuals are gone.
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