verslibre wrote:Saint John wrote:What the fuck is this movie about?
It's fuckin' Pocahontas (or Dances With Wolves) meets Ferngully on a planet (a moon, really) called Pandora.
The "alien" race is basically a tribe(s) of 10' tall, blue-skinned Mohicans.![]()
People are excusing the connect-the-dots, paint-by-numbers story because the movie is "eye candy," effects-wise.
Thank God someone else made the Ferngully connection. The first movie I ever took my daughter to was Ferngully. We BOTH saw Avatar and went "Um, we've seen nearly this exact story before".
Up here in Seattle, they also ran a National Guard promo that lasted about 15 minutes before the movie started. Think the military is worried about how their image is portrayed in Avatar? Felt like it was damage control. And yer right, as the planet inhabitants were riding the horsey things, all I could think of was "it's the Indians". I think the movie should win awards for special effects, but as an original story? Forget about it.