Avatar The Movie 2009 and 2010 Best Sci Fi Movie For Now

“Avatar” Movie 2009 (and 2010) – James Cameron to Set The New Frontiers…

Why does it say Avatar Movie 2010 in the title when we’re talking about Avatar The Movie 2009? Has Cameron gone off his rocker?

I guess it’s just because after finally seeing the story (not yet in 3-D, but that will come soon…) I can honestly say one definite pro is:

“James Cameron’s Avatar Movie is a Border Stone!” Not only for the year 2009 sci fi movies, but for the coming 2010 and the years to come, too…
and I don’t have a con to counter this just yet…but I found a news view with some negatives…

There are many people saying that the film:

• it is not an original story,
• it has influences from his previous movies and elsewhere,
• the Avatar characters are predictable,
• the Avatar movie cast is not exactly what was needed for a BIG hit…

BUT, you know what? This list can add more slurs, and I’d still buy the blu-ray version soon as it comes out.

They didn’t see the movie yet, I bet!  They were just supposing it would be so and so, after watching the Avatar movie trailers.

Maybe they thought it was a remake of the last airbender or something, but they would be dead wrong!

Let’s talk about these the avatar movie briefly (and not just the trailer):

Avatar is a movie which story takes place on a remote location - Pandora, a satellite to the gas giant planet Polyphemis in the solar system of Alpha Centauri B.   What is funny about this is that inside our solar system there is a satellite of Saturn with the same name Pandora.  This may be a sign of getting inspiration from things familiar to us already…or maybe the plot will thicken and link the director to old news that humans here on Earth have known for over a century.

BUT

it is no other resemblance, because the moon Pandora is full, I mean “literally” full of alien life.

The views (even 2-D, but I can only imagine diving into the scenery in 3-D) are spectacular – I simply find no other word to describe them.   I’ve got to see the floating mountains, the Mountain Banshee, HomeTree or in general, any kind of landscapes they are showing.   I felt like a kid longing for a candy and suddenly being handed a handful.  I didn’t know where to look first, believe me!

Have I seen such scenery elsewhere?  Well, glimpses of it, yes, here and there.  After all, they had to make them look at least remotely similar to what we are used to, in order to easily understand what’s going on, or otherwise, we would have had a lot of a hard time to figure out what we were looking at… hence flying medusae, direhorses with six legs but looking like – guess what? horses, of course!

Is this a lack of imagination, of originality?  I wouldn’t put it so.  As I said before, just a way to make us understand rapidly what is going on.

The main characters now…  Let’s see the Avatar movie cast:

The Avatar Movie by James Cameron

Jake Sully played by Sam Worthington – the Australian makes, on my opinion, a credible role.  He’s a crippled marine who came to Pandora to replace his dead brother in an attempt to save the investment the mining company (RDA) has made building an avatar mixing his DNA with alien Na’vi… His loyalties are clear in the beginning.   Furthermore, he is tempted by the promise to get ‘real legs’ at his return to Earth.  But taken by the action, he falls in love with…

Neytiri played by Zoe Saldana – guys you won’t believe how sexy the alien she’s playing could be!   Honestly, the most gracious and beautiful 3m tall blueish tailed monkey looking like creature.  However, I can sincerely say that the imagination here is at rest somehow.  These guys should have had six limbs, to match all the other life evolution path on Pandora.
THAT may be, though, the next step on James Cameron’s success story:  a new kind of Avatar movie 2010 maybe?…with six legged aliens?

Now, before I risk being accused of un-natural inclinations towards alien life… he, he… I think you should first see the movie, ok?   Once again, I can hardly wait to watch it again in 3-D.

Next in line would be on the cast the secondary roles, starting with…

Dr. Grace Augustine played by Sigourney Weaver – who declared recently about Avatar 2009: “The MOST ambitious movie I have ever been associated with..” She is an exobiologist whose role in the events will take you by surprise in the end – but I don’t want to spoil you the pleasure of surprise.

Nevertheless, if you’re a hard core Sci Fi FAN as I happen to be, you can read more here about Sigourney Weaver’s Avatar performance. While she fights FOR the planet, its wildlife and such, the opposite is…

Colonel Miles Quaritch portrayed by Stephen Lang - is the Chief of Security on Hell’s Gate (the small area that humans have established their presence on Pandora.)

Now, if detractors would say that Quaritch is predictable, then yes, indeed they’re quite right.  He’s just doing what he was trained to do all his life, without too much concern for the ethics, but rather in a strict military way: hit and crush the enemy before they get you… kinda… well, you know what I mean.

The one who’s NOT predictable though, is Jake Sully.  You would think a man linked to his avatar body through technological means would stay on the safe side, wouldn’t you?

Back to Avatar movie cast though, there are a few more to be mentioned:

Trudy Chacon portrayed by actress Michelle Rodriguez is a retired marine pilot working for RDA.  Her role is crucial in the movie’s plot at certain moments, but then again, I hate spoilers, so I can’t disclose it here.  Again, a character who’s actions are more or less predictable up to a point.  But what is coming in the end is what counts most, isn’t it?

Parker Selfridge played by Giovanni Ribisi – administrator of the RDA.  If someone is indeed doing what you’d just expect them to do, then this guy is, definitely.

There would be a few more and of course even ten’s of them…it is a long cast indeed, but I think it’s time to see the natives, too:

Mo’at portrayed by actress CCH Pounder is the Queen of the Na’vi’s Omaticaya Clan.  She is Neytiri’s mother and married to…

Eytukan played by Wes Studi – the patriarch of the Omaticaya Clan

Tsu’Tey portrayed by actor Laz Alonso is one of all Na’vi finest warriors and archery experts, presumably the greatest warrior of the Omaticaya Clan.  He was originally intended to be the mate of Neytiri.   Now, could YOU blame the guy for assaulting Jake, especially when he finds out he was an RDA spy in Na’vi’s eyes?

All these being said, without further ado I’d say directly:

“All these characters are more or less predictable, just like in any other movie, but of course only up to a point.” Is this blamable?  NOT at all!

It’s just the way things are.  Makes our ‘job’ more easier when we watch them movies, ya know?

Brings that feeling that we’ve seen these before, to classify things more smoothly into our thinking patterns.  But in the end, all is just a mirrors game, a play of smokes.  James Cameron only uses these characters to show us what he truly intended:  a one-of-a-kind 3-D experience, so overwhelming – attacking our main senses (vision and hearing) with such a force that we won’t know how when and where we were hit.

There is on more thing I didn’t talk about too much in this post, that being the Avatar creatures:

• The Fierce Thanator,
• The Powerful Mountain Banshee,
• The Splendid Leonopteryx
• The Friendly Direhorse

and many others… all true marvels of CGI technology.  But don’t worry!   I’ll just stay for one more round on my armchair here and I’ll bring to you these mighty Avatar creatures here in my next post.

My conclusion is this.  The avatar movie cast is doing it’s job perfectly balanced, managing to pass the director’s message to us.  James Cameron’s Avatar movie is a state-of-the-art 3-D experience for sure and a milestone in the history of science fiction movies in particular, but also movies, generally.

Avatar, the movie 2009 is coming at a late time in December, making it the perfect candidate to be also the best one next year.  So my title Avatar the movie 2010 is more than deserved in essence, but time will prove it to be in nature too.

StevieVee, on a cold blizzardly night of December…