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Avatar 9/10 for stunning visuals
7/10 for plotline
I really feel this needed separate votes for each area.
Visually it was astounding due to the extraordinary amount of detail it encompassed and the beauty of all the elements in it, specifically the flora and fauna of Pandora. I can't give it a 10 because I felt that something was lacking in that there was only the base or pandora, and little else. I needed a 3rd scenario to give the film more depth, otherwise it was always an us vs. them type of two-dimensional story (pun intended ha). I did see this in 3D and I agree with other posters it will not be the same on DVD.
Plotline....what can I say? It was supremely annoying that everything seemed to be similar to earth, visually, but with funky colours and extra appendages. The lead character Jake was interesting but I'd have liked more depth even though he was quite nice to look at and had the sexiest voice (sounds just like Patrick Swayze, seriously). The rather forced but necessary love story, the primal female character who was appealing for her boldness and daring but skimmed the surface in every other sense. The brutish and stereotyped Colonel, the predictable outcome of it all.
But I must say overall, the film struck a chord and I was overwhelmed by it, in both good and bad ways. It was both thrilling and depressing to me, oddly. Definitely a film to watch in 3D.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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