AVATAR Movie Review

AVATAR Directed by James Cameron

AVATAR is unlike any movie I've ever seen. It has so much in it, that you need (and will want) to watch it a few times to absorb it all. I'm not going to go drawing parallels between what happens in the movie, and what is happening in our world today, and where we're heading, because, firstly, people will doubtless realize that they exist themselves, and secondly, because I think the movie should stand, untouched, on its own as a masterpiece and a work of art.

The world, Pandora, has the most incredible creatures, plants, and geological features. This film clearly had an outstanding cast of crewmembers and actors who were able to collaborate and brainstorm successfully together.

Similar to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy in its wide scope and visions, (many of the props, costumes, weapons, and chiefly visual concepts were also created by WETA Workshop/Digital) the scenery for this movie was inspired partly by on-earth landforms, languages and constructions, including jungles in Hawaii, China’s Huang Shan mountains (the floating Hallelujah Mountains in the film), oil-drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico (for the Unobtainium mission headquarters), and various dialects.

I know many people consider Wikipedia to sometimes be an unreliable source of information, but there is an article which has many citations, which I have included the link to here. The section titled ‘Themes and Inspirations’ has interesting facts and thoughts about the film.