It would be hard to leave this movie out of the 50 movies we
have chosen that have set themselves apart from the rest of the film industry
and are deserving of being experienced before you part with this world. As I was recently discussing with Maximus,
this list we have created is not of the best 50 movies ever made but of the top 50 movies that
need to be experienced. Avatar was the
first of its kind having a whole special level of equipment needed to be created
just to film it. It is visually a thrill
and will be one of those movies that will be re-released into theaters in the
future as your home theater system just can’t do it justice.
The premise of the movie is that humans in the future have
explored other planets and have found specific resources that are very valuable and only found on the planet of Pandora that they have begun to exploit.
A disabled vet named Jake Sully (played by Sam Worthington) wants to
still stay in the game and is offered the opportunity to work as a body guard
through a life like replica of the inhabitants of Pandora, giving way to the
name of the movie “Avatar”.
Through this Avatar, Jake meets with the natives and finds
he rather enjoys their way of living, while they start to accept him as one of
their own. The Colonel of the human fleet finds this as a huge advantage so he exploits the situation by
using Jake’s friendship with the natives to gain military intelligence. The story spirals into a roller coaster ride of
events from there, which I will leave for you to find out for yourself.
The movie is basically almost all CGI besides the humans interaction throughout the movie. James
Cameron claims to have been building this idea for years, creating the whole
society and even the language for the natives of Pandora. He helped create the different types of
cameras used to film this movie. He
created the biggest blockbuster since Titanic (which he directed as well…). To his credit, this movie went beyond story
line and literally into the limitless boundaries of the imagination.
As Maximus told me when discussing this movie, he believes that it is
less amazing now that it is on DVD/Blu Ray.
He makes a great point with that statement as the actual 3D theater
experience was the far superior way of seeing it. I do think though that if you have not seen
it in theaters, then you will still have a great experience in the Blu Ray
format. Or you could just wait for it to
come back to theaters as I believe it will, especially since Cameron is working
on a second story line dealing with Pandora.
- Diomedes
