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The film received mostly positive reviews. The site's consensus reads "It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking. Every demographic surveyed was reported to give this rating. These polls also indicated that the main draw of the film was its use of 3D.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film "extraordinary" and gave it four stars out of four.
The Fellowship of the Ring , the film "employs a new generation of special effects" and it "is not simply a sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough. It has a flat-out Green and anti-war message". Scott of At The Movies also compared his viewing of the film to the first time he viewed Star Wars and he said "although the script is a little bit Cameron's talent may just be as big as his dreams.
Avatar ' s underlying social and political themes attracted attention. Armond White of the New York Press wrote that Cameron used "villainous American characters" to "misrepresent facets of militarism , capitalism, and imperialism ". Moore of The Christian Post concluded that "propaganda exists in the film" and stated "If you can get a theater full of people in Kentucky to stand and applaud the defeat of their country in war, then you've got some amazing special effects.
Critics and audiences have cited similarities with other films, literature or media, describing the perceived connections in ways ranging from simple "borrowing" to outright plagiarism. Avatar received compliments from filmmakers, with Steven Spielberg praising it as "the most evocative and amazing science-fiction movie since Star Wars " and others calling it "audacious and awe inspiring", "master class", and "brilliant".
Noted art director-turned-filmmaker Roger Christian is also a noted fan of the film. Louis Film Critics awards: Special Edition includes an additional nine minutes of footage, all of which is CG , [] including an extension of the sex scene [] and various other scenes that were cut from the original theatrical film. The release also preserves the film's native 1. Avatar set a first-day launch record in the U. First-day DVD and Blu-ray sales combined were over four million units sold. Three different versions of the film are present on the discs: The collector's extended cut contains 6 more minutes of footage, thus making it 16 minutes longer than the original theatrical cut.
Cameron mentioned, "you can sit down, and in a continuous screening of the film, watch it with the Earth opening". Cameron initially stated that Avatar would be released in 3D around November , but the studio issued a correction: The length of Panasonic's exclusivity period is stated to last until February Two sequels to Avatar were initially confirmed after the success of the first film; this number was subsequently expanded to four. Filming for the first two sequels began in September and is expected to continue into ; [] [] the filming of the following two is expected to start as soon as Avatar 2 and 3 wrap filming.
New cast members include Cliff Curtis and Kate Winslet as members of the Na'vi reef people of Metkayina, and Oona Chaplin as Varang, a "strong and vibrant central character who spans the entire saga of the sequels". Although the last two sequels have been greenlit, Cameron stated in a November 26, interview: On November 14, , Cameron announced filming on Avatar 2 and 3 with the principal cast had been completed. Toruk - The First Flight is an original stage production by the Montreal -based Cirque du Soleil which premiered in November and has been touring other cities since Inspired by Avatar , the story is set in Pandora's past, involving a prophecy concerning a threat to the Tree of Souls and a quest for totems from different tribes.
Audience members can download an app in order to participate in show effects. On January 18, , it was announced via the Toruk Facebook page that filming for an upcoming DVD has been completed and is currently undergoing editing. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Music from the Motion Picture. List of box office records set by Avatar. Have them go with some sense of wanting to find the answer. People want a persistent alternate reality to invest themselves in and they want the detail that makes it rich and worth their time. They want to live somewhere else.
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Way to undermine your own message. Avatar , for anyone who's had their head in the sand for the last few months, is the first film in over a decade from the man behind Titanic, still the all-time box-office champ. The success of that film presumably allowed Cameron to write his own cheques for this one, and it's a project that's been stewing on the back burner for at least as long, waiting for the special-effects industry to catch up. And whatever the truth behind the rumoured hundreds of millions spent on it, Cameron certainly gives Hollywood a lot of bang for its buck.
Avatar, in all conscience, looks fantastic — a near-seamless melding of fantasy extraterrestrial landscapes and cutting edge computer-generated imagery, all inserted beautifully into the high-testosterone camerawork which Cameron has made his specialty. When Michelangelo completed his sculpture of David in , he probably thought it made flat paintings look ever so slightly Betamax. Maybe he put a consoling arm round the shoulder of Sandro Botticelli as the two men looked ruefully at Primavera, and murmured caustically: A touch Sinclair C5, a smidgen video top-loader — compared to, you know, sculpture?
After the extremes of hype and backlash attending Cameron's solemn "unveiling" of a taster-trailer earlier this year, the film itself emerges as a watchable and entertaining if uncompromisingly ridiculous sci-fi spectacular, unable to decide if it wants to kick the ass of every alien in sight or get all eco-touchy-feely with them.
It's a Dubya movie trying its darnedest to get with the new Obama programme. One hundred years or so hence, planet Earth is attempting to solve its energy issues by mining a rare new mineral cutely called "Unobtainium". This mineral is only to be found on a distant planet, in the very centre of a lush tropical forest, packed with quirky-scary CGI animals, under a giant Edenic tree which is the spiritual home of the planet's aboriginal inhabitants: An American mining corporation has established a private army base there, getting ready to drive the natives off their land, led by the psychotically gung-ho Col Miles Quaritch Stephen Lang — a mixture of Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now and Slim Pickens in Dr Strangelove.
There is talk of fighting "terror with terror" and unleashing a "shock and awe" campaign.