Ok, now, I'm in love with a new movie that has come to theaters yesterday, is called AVATAR. AVATAR comes to us from the hands of James Cameron, known by his masterpieces Titanic and Terminator. This guy is a genius, he has such tremendous imagination and an incredible facility to make his ideas come to life. His Brand is massive cinematic entertaiment, when i mean massive I refer to everything; the atmosphere surrounding the movie, the technology used in it, the soundtrack, etc.
In this particular movie, we have to talk about the technology at first, because it's the main theme that has been talked about from the first moment Cameron mentioned AVATAR. When talking about how he imagined the world of AVATAR, he said that he wrote the story fourteen years ago but when he show it to the other people working with him, they said literally: "If we make this..we are doomed, it can't be done, the technology doesn't exist", so he put it way back in the drawer for about a decade. When he saw how Gollum, a computer generated character, did on the Lord of the Rings, he resurected the project. At this moment it's easy to figure that AVATAR uses 3D, the female lead is entirely computer generated. As a result, the cast donned motion-capture suits – essentially, leotards covered in sensors that feed the movements of the body back to a bank of computers – and acted out their scenes on a "performance capture" stage six times bigger than anything used in Hollywood before. This makes the characters look so real that you would enter this new world believing everything and getting atached to them. It would be silly now to say that to experience AVATAR in all it's glory, you have to wear 3D glasses on the projection.
At this point, you may say, "ohh, another one of thoses 3D animation flicks...". Well, yes it's a 3D movie but it's not as any other you have seen before. The movie is made from zero, thinking on 3D technology, it's acompanied by an inmersive imaginative world, a nice story and a fantastic soundtrack so it has all the ingredients to be a massive cinematic experiences - and it is. Maybe is a little mix of many things that had been done already (Dances with Wolves, Solaris) but it has the things that make a movie epic and memorable.
Now that we talked enough of the technological facet of the movie, let's talk about the most important thing in a movie: the story and how you make the audience believe your story, because there's no good movie without a good story, even though this isn't a story; it's an experience. In AVATAR a new world is made from scratch. A paraplegic Marine called Jake Sully decides to take the place of his dead brother in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. When he arrives to Pandora he sees a planet made by a vast forest landscape and learns that it's inhabitated by the native humanoid "Na'vi". His mission there will consist on taking control of a geneticaly created Na'vi-Human body and infiltrate the natives to convince them of leaving the place where they are settled because underneath there is a gigantic source of a rich material that the humans want. And from here it starts, Jake will learn new things from this experience and maybe his priorities begin to change...
All in AVATAR is epic, the incredible detailed world of Pandora and it's creatures, the way it draws you into the story, those eye-poping moments, the music, the message. It's one of my favorite movies this year. And even if you don't like it at all, you will have moments, when you forget everything that's happening and just stare at the beautiful detailed forests and I say to you that you will enjoy the ride. This movie sould be on your "must see" movies and i recomend that you see it with 3D googles.
In this particular movie, we have to talk about the technology at first, because it's the main theme that has been talked about from the first moment Cameron mentioned AVATAR. When talking about how he imagined the world of AVATAR, he said that he wrote the story fourteen years ago but when he show it to the other people working with him, they said literally: "If we make this..we are doomed, it can't be done, the technology doesn't exist", so he put it way back in the drawer for about a decade. When he saw how Gollum, a computer generated character, did on the Lord of the Rings, he resurected the project. At this moment it's easy to figure that AVATAR uses 3D, the female lead is entirely computer generated. As a result, the cast donned motion-capture suits – essentially, leotards covered in sensors that feed the movements of the body back to a bank of computers – and acted out their scenes on a "performance capture" stage six times bigger than anything used in Hollywood before. This makes the characters look so real that you would enter this new world believing everything and getting atached to them. It would be silly now to say that to experience AVATAR in all it's glory, you have to wear 3D glasses on the projection.
At this point, you may say, "ohh, another one of thoses 3D animation flicks...". Well, yes it's a 3D movie but it's not as any other you have seen before. The movie is made from zero, thinking on 3D technology, it's acompanied by an inmersive imaginative world, a nice story and a fantastic soundtrack so it has all the ingredients to be a massive cinematic experiences - and it is. Maybe is a little mix of many things that had been done already (Dances with Wolves, Solaris) but it has the things that make a movie epic and memorable.
Now that we talked enough of the technological facet of the movie, let's talk about the most important thing in a movie: the story and how you make the audience believe your story, because there's no good movie without a good story, even though this isn't a story; it's an experience. In AVATAR a new world is made from scratch. A paraplegic Marine called Jake Sully decides to take the place of his dead brother in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. When he arrives to Pandora he sees a planet made by a vast forest landscape and learns that it's inhabitated by the native humanoid "Na'vi". His mission there will consist on taking control of a geneticaly created Na'vi-Human body and infiltrate the natives to convince them of leaving the place where they are settled because underneath there is a gigantic source of a rich material that the humans want. And from here it starts, Jake will learn new things from this experience and maybe his priorities begin to change...
All in AVATAR is epic, the incredible detailed world of Pandora and it's creatures, the way it draws you into the story, those eye-poping moments, the music, the message. It's one of my favorite movies this year. And even if you don't like it at all, you will have moments, when you forget everything that's happening and just stare at the beautiful detailed forests and I say to you that you will enjoy the ride. This movie sould be on your "must see" movies and i recomend that you see it with 3D googles.
