First reviews for Avatar-Good

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**Frazzled**

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/avatar-film-review-1004052868.story

**Wrexasaur**

But let's cut to the chase: A fully believable, flesh-and-blood (albeit not human flesh and blood) romance is the beating heart of "Avatar." Cameron has never made a movie just to show off visual pyrotechnics: Every bit of technology in "Avatar" serves the greater purpose of a deeply felt love story.

Titanic in space?

Let me review this really quick...

A fully believable, flesh-and-blood (albeit not human flesh and blood) romance is the beating heart of "Avatar."

Ugh...

**Dark Lord Seanron**

Very much looking forward to this

**Ahtman**

It helps assuage some concerns but it still basically read as Disney's Pocahontas but with FX that have to be seen to be believed. A very hyperbole driven review.

**SilverMK2**

Romance?

Nooooooooooooo!

We need more guns and explosions, not smooching.

**Kanluwen**

XENOPHILES! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

**Gitzbitah**

That's extra heretical.

**Ahtman**

Gitzbitah wrote:That's extra heretical.

We are getting a reading on the meter.

**Kanluwen**

The Heresy Meter! It's off the scale!

**Envy89**

**Cane**

So far its got a 92% rating at RT and a 100% on their top critics list although there's only a handful or so reviews.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/?name_order=asc

Can't wait; having a James Cameron scifi blockbuster in the Holiday Season is a great Xmas present in itself.

**Black Blow Fly**

I can't wait to see it.

G

**Altered_Soul**

Rule 34 is going to have a field day!

**JEB_Stuart**

How did Commissar Fuklaw make his way into the OT? And not even by EF's bidding?

**Kilkrazy**

The Commissar makes his way in anywhere he damn well pleases.

**warpcrafter**

I usually stay away from the whole IMAX 3-D thing, because it gives me a headache, but I just might have to make an exception for this one.

**dienekes96**

It has actually gotten GREAT reviews. Even by despondent limey bastards who usually hate anything not starring Keira Knightley.

**Miguelsan**

I can´t remember where but I saw a review of the mocie calling it Dances with Smurfs. So unless the HQ orders me to go with her I´ll be skipping it.

M.

**Cryonicleech**

Altered_Soul wrote:Rule 34 is going to have a field day!

Lol, not even Fuklaw can stop this heresy...

**GundamMerc**

Yay! Xenos-human por... um, weak-point chart. Uh, yeah. *whistles as he goes to the small closet no one knows about*

**Orkeosaurus**

The story takes place in 2154, three decades after a multinational corporation has established a mining colony on Pandora, a planet light years from Earth.

(...)

It seems -- although the scientists led by Sigourney Weaver's top doc have barely scratched the surface -- a flow of energy ripples through the roots of trees and the spores of the plants, which the Na'vi know how to tap into.

The center of life is a holy tree where tribal memories and the wisdom of their ancestors is theirs for the asking. This is what the humans want to strip mine.

Jake manages to get taken in by one tribe where a powerful, Amazonian named Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) takes him under her wing to teach him how to live in the forest, speak the language and honor the traditions of nature.

I am so not seeing this movie.

**Cane**

Roger Ebert compared Avatar to watching Star Wars back in 1977; now my expectations are pretty high. Definitely buying IMAX tickets for the family ASAP before it gets sold out until February.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The wife and I are watching it this week.

**Cheese Elemental**

Orkeosaurus wrote:
The story takes place in 2154, three decades after a multinational corporation has established a mining colony on Pandora, a planet light years from Earth.

(...)

It seems -- although the scientists led by Sigourney Weaver's top doc have barely scratched the surface -- a flow of energy ripples through the roots of trees and the spores of the plants, which the Na'vi know how to tap into.

The center of life is a holy tree where tribal memories and the wisdom of their ancestors is theirs for the asking. This is what the humans want to strip mine.

Jake manages to get taken in by one tribe where a powerful, Amazonian named Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) takes him under her wing to teach him how to live in the forest, speak the language and honor the traditions of nature.
I am so not seeing this movie.

Damn straight.

**mattyrm**

Im a limey bastard and i have to say, i think i would rather run Keira Knightley over than watch a film with her in.

**Ahtman**

James Cameron: What I'd like to do is remake Disney's Pochahanta's, only this time in space with more explosions and increase the New Age philosophy. It's been awhile since I've seen a major release that re-inforces the 'noble savage' stereotype or used an Indian Princess.

Studios: Sounds good, how much?

JC: 400 million.

Studios: Make it an even 500 million.

JC: Sweet. Your general audience will be so wowed by the pretty colors they won't realize that the story is so so or been done soooooooooooooooooooooo many times before. Probably won't even notice that it will be an environmental movie that leaves a carbon footprint the size of Manhattan.

**Silverthorne**

Too much Titanic and The Abyss, not enough Aliens and The Terminator.

**dienekes96**

You do realize that Titanic made more money than all of your favorite movies put together, right?

And this is a ripoff of Dances With Wolves far more than Pocahontas?

LMAO at any professed sci-fi or pulp fan not seeing Avatar in theaters because it features a love story.

**Wrexasaur**

This is like the fourth thread on this flick... I mean really?

I will see it on DVD... yeah... being rather patient, I forsee dozens, if not hundreds of fantastic CGI movies (in the actual upcoming blossoming of that style) over the next decade, so this flick looks like an ant on stilts to me.

3-d. Movies. Online. That is all...

**guardpiper**

Even with the reviews I might just wait to see it on DVD or blue ray. I must admit I am getting tired of movies that basically say, nature is great and technology is bad. Which from the the shots I have seen, seems a message of the movie.