I loved it. Loved the story, the acting, the setting. :3
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The pilot is the only episode I haven't watched.
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I wish you could skin humanoids.
Just putting that out there.
The cartoon?
I loved it.
I dont know if it is based off something, but it was brilliant.
The movie?
Again, loved it. Absolutely mindlessly loved it. about 70/30 CGI / Story. And yes, i know its pokahontas in spacesuits. who cares, it was awesome.
Thing is, a lot of people lately cry about redoing old stuff. There is a difference about how you do it - much like wow heroics. If you simply take the basic concept and redo the rest (aka avatar, treasure planet, and the ragnaros in vanilla/cataclysm etc) - its fine. if you simply remake the old thing piece by piece (i.e. new nightmare on elm street, or onyxia's lair in wrath) then yes, its usually crap. Usually.
We dream, we dream.
The cartoon definitely was pretty original.
Even though it is based off of a lot of things I use the term original, just because nothing is truly original. Everything is based off of something. That goes for the movie also.
Even Lord of the Rings was based off of a lot of mythology.
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Meh. I didn't find Avatar all that appealing and I don't think I've ever rolled my eyes as much while watching a film.
And its perfectly fine. Everybody's different.
me? You can summarise me PERFECTLY by this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsemHatx-o
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I think you would like the sequel more. From what has been heard on it it does not revolve around Jake's story and the story is much much more original.
I think James Cameron couldn't resist using the story for the first one, just because it is such a true and amazing one, and I completely agree with his choice.
The movies are going to be a trilogy, and definitely not take as long as the first one. I think Cameron wants the sequel out by 2013-2014.
Yeah, it was heavy-handed, but that was sort of the point. It was the sort of film that asks you to really buy into the world, and if you did so I think it worked very well. It wasn't an original story by any means, but it was told well. I think Cracked put it best:
This is Cameron's head, emptied onto the screen with more love and care than he's shown to any of his previous films... For all the faults that Avatar displays, and it displays a lot of them, there's something charming about Cameron excitedly showing off every last personal kink, tweak and obsession that pops his geek boner. He's like an eager 12 year old genius, gushing about his science project. The storytelling is basically Dune, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars badly glued together, but it almost doesn't matter because he believes so hard in this earnestly silly pastiche, that it's a little adorable. It never means as much as he thinks it does when he starts killing his playthings and setting their world on fire, but it's a marvel nonetheless.