Avatar....

A post to write down some thoughts after watching Avatar....

Enjoyed every bit of it. Probably because I'm a big fan of fantasy, animation and special effects anyway. So a movie with so much of all of these couldn't go wrong for me. Was like watching a new benchmark being set for movies with CG, like Matrix years ago.

The 3D experience was good, specially in the forest scenes and the 'ash-fall' scene.

Inspite of all the computer rendered characters in the movie, the only one who came across as 'fake' for me was the Colonel. Probably the scars, the 'I'm the meanest meanie there is' attitude was all a bit too cartoonish (specially so soon after Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds) .

The best thing about the movie for me was the landscape, flora and fauna on Pandora!! Beautiful!!

Avatar hasn't displaced Aliens as my favourite 'another planet' movie. Wouldn't mind watching it a couple more times, but not more than that, I think. Aliens though, I can watch everytime its aired :)

The movie reminded me quite a bit of an interesting computer game called 'Heart of Darkness' [have the feeling, there were floating mountains here as well] and an old animated movie called 'Ferngully - the last rainforest'. Specially of 'Ferngully, because the bare-bones story is quite similar, and the animation too to some extent(more 'inspired' than 'rip-off')

N mentioned the other day, that the Na'vi in avatar reminded her of the drawings of 'Shiva' from the Amar Chitra Katha stories we read as children - because of the blue skin, dreadlocks and attire. Since then, I can't help but think the same somehow.

Lastly, I wish I had a GIANT tv at home, for movies like this!!