Avatar The Movie

Picture this. Packed movie theater friday night. A plan to see a 6:45 showing of The Blind Side. Standing at the complete end of the line at 6:47. I think we all know how the story ends, shows sold out, and my sister Megan and I decide to see Avatar. Although it was not our first choice, we still kept our positive attitudes. Neither of us had ever seen any episodes of the Avatar shows so we were a little iffy. But we heard all the talk about the, "unbelievable effects" so we were up for it.

I originally expected the movie to be a cartoon or a Pixar movie. I also thought it was going to be like the basis of the show and be about an Avatar that could air bend. But was surprised when the movie had been filmed and did not have anything to do with air bending. The movie is about a planet far from earth called Pandora where there are species of another kind that the humans want to be friends with so they morph humans into these animal-like bodies called Avatars. An ex-marine named Jake Sully gets the oppertunity to be an Avatar. But he then becomes attatched to living as an Avatar, meets new friends and falling in love. The original plan of the humans was to get avatars to befriend the indiginous species, the Na'vi race, and get them to move their home so they could get expensive metals burried below there home tree. But Jake Sully just can't do that to his new home away from home.

This movie is an interesting take on technology and material things. The indeginous species of Pandora live off the land. They pray when they kill animals or animals die and believe that everyone and every living thing has the right to live. They live in a sacred tree called the "Home Tree" and they would never cut down that or other trees. Us as humans cut down trees to make material things like fancy houses and an extremely large amount of paper. Why should we need these material things? The trees help us survive with there photosynthesis and release of oxygen. Not to mention a tree is a living thing. Think about if tree's took over our civilization and started killing us to make houses. If tree's did have feelings, which scientists are pretty sure they don't, I'm sure they would feel the same way you would.

The movie had incredible effects, done by computers, that were like nothing I have ever seen before. The computer captured as much of the animated character, as much as a camera could capture the real actor. The effects were so life-like. The fighting scenes were enthralling. It even shows the planes miscles coming towards the Home Tree and branches being crushed as the species of Na'vi are running through the forest. I didn't even see the movie in 3-d but I felt like I still felt like I was there!

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