From 'La La Land' to 'Pandora's Land' ...
Few days ago there was news on the latest "official" release dates for Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5
That sure got my attention and interest. I shared the news right here, in case others might be interested too and that they missed it.
This is the version I decided to revisit last night. It adds sixteen minutes to the theatrical release; it is three-hours long.
I had no idea, no clue that my curiosity would bring me back in revisiting it. And surprisingly enough I went for the 2D extended edition instead of 3D.
Because I also bought, years ago, those versions as well:
3D ?
... And the first, 2D (theatrical) ?
Anyway, I went for the long version this time around and in 2D. And I am no more a fan of Avatar than say Lawrence of Arabia, or Lord of the Rings trilogy, of La La Land, Once Upon a Time in America, ...
My overall rating score (for the full version, picture, sound, film's immersion in 2D, ...everything I saw on my screen and heard in my room):
80
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So, what's new? Here's what's new; from the first moment it started playing again I was trapped, and it got more intense too with the colors, the effects, the changes from scene to scene. It is impossible to be unaware of the tremendous work that went through this film. Yes, computers were used extensively, the color palette, the special effects, the attention to details, the actors/actresses' commitment, the directorial master grip. Or you go to Pandora or you don't; you let yourself free of being engulfed or you simply don't accept the reality of a science fiction/fantasy illuminati in Pandora's world.
In general the film was quite appreciated by the masses, with $2.8 billion worldwide @ the box office...the most biggest pay day check ever in the cinema history of all times.
I only mention it as a fact. But to me it don't matter if it made one dollar or one trillion.
What surprised me the most is that I was re-experiencing it on another new level, an appreciative value of all the people who work on it with amazing tenacity and time.
It was all there in front of me, on the screen. The first hour was the best, the rest became more deja vu and less interest grabbing, but nonetheless complementary.
Some scenes were better recreated CGI effects speaking, others less so. But for a 2009 flick it is still a tour-de-force. The jungle steals my eyes and spirit and runs with them in abandon. The aliens (blue people) living in it are a good bunch. The humans living outside of it with their walls, and wanting the blue people's most precious treasures (oil <> unobtanium) so that they can dictate from the power of the riches, are not a good bunch; they are killers, women/children killers.
'Avatar' ...you might want to say is a grotesque low life sci-fi flick directed by an addict and tormentor, a world that doesn't exist outside of reality (c'mon, tall blue people living under a giant tree!), men fighting against aliens, against other races, wanting their things, wanting to break their culture, their ways of living, for stealing their resources, without caring @ all for peace, for respect, for true values of prosperity for all things living, moving, existing; and it just doesn't make sense, it has nothing to do with real life and with real people, and it's just a very bad film with a poor script and terrible acting and ridiculous flying dragons and full of CGI blue aliens from another planet, from out of space, from the other side of the wall, and it's all fine in everyone's vision because it's only a movie made by computers run by young artists working in the entertainment movie industry, and you might have a valid point there.
'Avatar' is an escape world into our own reality world. It's the vision of all artists working and watching and living yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Yesterday I was living, reliving in 2D Pandora's world. Tomorrow I'll be living in another higher and better and closer 4-dimensional world. ...The real one, between life and death.
Films they can do that sometimes to people, even from repeated viewings; it all depends on how we feel @ the time, plus the real work that went through it as seen in front of our own very eyes, without any lies, no bull, no distractions, no nothing but the real thing.
Who are we? Who are you, are you a blue people or a someone else? :b There's one way to find out for good; in the human history books of our best libraries...or in the jungles still standing of our planet. There's no wonder that man is looking for other planets to habitat and rehabilitate.
3,000 years from now we'll be (many) living avatars inside other people's bodies with the mind of our own bodies. We'll be identified from our 3D implanted DNA micro computer chip under the skin of our neck's back. We'll fly first class to other planets from other galaxies without credit cards and passports.
I could write a review about the replay value of 'Avatar' on Blu-ray 2D extended edition that I revisited last night, but I simply won't.