3 of my kids saw it (separately) and
raved about it and said how I would LOOOOOOVE it and how it was just my sort of movie....
I was more than content to wait for the DVD. Am getting to the 'grumpy old lady' stage - cinema going is more of a pain than it is enjoyable; specially the part with having to SHARE my space with the Public. Public who slurp and sniff and cough and TALK all through the film. And then there's the cinema fuckups which happen far too often to be funny or anecdotal - not turning off the lights, getting the ratio wrong, killing the pic halfway through the film while the sound is still working -Oooops! AND I have to
pay for the priviledge! Bugger that!
But ...
I happened *cough* across a copy of the soundtrack... James Horner = worth having despite never having heard it. Willow, Braveheart, Titanic, Mighty Joe Young! And then I listened to it...
OMG♥♥♥
And
had to go see the movie yesterday! (cheap Tuesday) No NOT the 3D. (HEADACHES!) Cos if it was half as pretty as the music...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...
Am I the only person who came away from that movie
Depressed?
Yes, it was pretty! Yes it was excellently done! But does anyone seriously think the evil Earthers
won't be back to 'nuke the site from space'?
O.o
D~:
and the music was pretty.
and the story pretty much sucked. for so many reasons that have been talked about by lots of people. (blah blah stereotypes/clunky script/UNsubtle plot/race fail blah blah)
and without the 3D it wouldn't have been worth it for me. but purely for that i thought it was a great experience.
And yes. The movie was terribly sad. I cried. But I thought the movie was good, too. Their future is uncertain and you want them to live free, but you know... if that stuff is that valuable, yeah, they'll be nuked, or something. :(
In all likelihood, A new company will have to buy the rights to the mines and they'll have to promise to play nice. Public opinion is funny like that.
Should this new company choose to ignore that promise and bring bigger guns to Pandora, then it'll get really interesting... I don't think we've seen everything that Eywa can do. She's alive, and she is a planet.
And all of this will take at least 12 years to happen, and it's not like the humans and avatars who stayed behind are stupid. They'll make their own plans too.
(Also, hi, I am a long time lurker. I love your art!)
And Cameron worked on this for, what, 14 years? It's a shame it could have been better.