Avatar (Good Movie - Or Good FX?)

Good movie. Because of the special effects. Sort of. Im torn on this review, because I loved this movie, but I'm not really sure why. Ok, the special effects were amazing. I mean they were phenomonal, when you went from human to pandora world, the transition was seamless, yet amazing. There was zero difference between the movements of the humans and the aliens, it was really incredible. And for that, I reccomend you see this movie. However, the story fell a little flat towards the end. The last, say, half hour, was just too predicatble and dragged out for me. It all blended into one big unnecesary clump of scenes. The rest of the movie was pretty good though.

One thing I noticed is that this movie takes a lot of stories from other succesful movies, and kind of mashes them togethor into one masterplot. Of course when you are in the theater, you don't realize that, so they can get away with it. Take plots like Dances with Wolves, Braveheart, even Pochahontas. Main character becomes one of the native people and helps them rise up againts the oppresive forces that the main characters introdcuced. Just Some food for thought.

Until I looked into it. Apparently there has been some uproar about Jame's Cameron stealing the plot completely from a Sci Fi book. This book is called "Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson. In it, the main character is parapalegic, just like in Avatar. He goes to another planet and explores, just like in Avatar. He finds freedom in his new Alien body, exactly like in avatar, and finally, becomes a native and fights the power. Just like in avatar. Oh and oth characters have blue skin. So Yeah. The chiller: Poul Anderson apparently wrote another book. Called Avatar.

However, this is the internet, and to be completley honest you can't really trust everything you read, especially when it's coming from an angry mob of sci fi nerds. Plus, I love all of James Cameron's work, hes genuis, so It would be kind of hard to beleive he really did this.

 Anyway, this might be one of those movies that you see only because everyone is seeing it and talking about it, but I think you should see it anyway, its basic solid movie qualities plus the amazing FX = downright good entertainment.