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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

There's a new post on The Panic Button!

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:21 PM PST

I’m really quite speechless about this movie. It was packed with action, adventure, romance, desperation, grievance, and a nice moral along with a great story.

This movie takes place in the year 2154, and tells the story of Jake Sully, a disabled ex-soldier who is taken to the newly discovered Earth-like planet of Pandora. Humans have settled on Pandora and have learned how to put the soul and being of people into embodiments called avatars. These avatars were made with the characteristics of the native intelligent species on Pandora, the Na’vi.

The Na’vi are an indigenous group of blue-skinned humanoids that have their own language and worship nature. They believe that the trees act as a God and they are all interconnected in a vast system of information. Each Na’vi being is equipped with a (for lack of better term) plug that extends from the tails of their hair. They can connect it to animals and plants and can interact with them. They store memories in the large trees.

Pandora is a planet with a magnificent landscape. It is a great example of how far we’ve come with computer graphics. The plants are so detailed and the animals so vividly textured. I saw the movie in 3D, and it was spectacular.

The story depicts the conflict between the Na’vi people and the humans. The humans insist on tearing down the trees so that they can mine the rich rock beneath the ground, but the Na’vi do not want their land to be destroyed. The movie finishes with a spectacular action scene with planes, floating mountains, colorful birds, explosives, and plenty of epic sequences of events.

The movie concludes with an untold moral about how every living thing has significance, and nothing is more important than memories and love.