The Mr. Glass Experience

Avatar is the brand new film by super producer James Cameron. It is Cameron’s directorial return to feature films. Cameron is best known for his huge success’s with The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Titanic. Avatar, his newest creation raises Cameron’s reputation for creating film masterpieces. Not only does Avatar make use of new film technologies that are groundbreaking, but the visual effects are easily the best ever seen in a film. It stars Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang in a three hour film masterpiece.

It’s set in the year 2154, on an lush alien planet called Pandora. It’s inhabited by a native indigenous blue people called the Na’vi. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is a wounded ex-marine who comes to the planet to operate an Avatar (a Na’vi body grown with human DNA so that a human can operate it as their own body). Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) is the head of the Avatar program, and initially refuses Sully. However when Sully earns the friendship of the Na’vi princess Neytiri ( the beautiful Zoë Saldaña), Dr. Augustine starts to see his potential as more the a Jarhead. The tension between the natives and the mining company mount, as Sully starts be accepted as one of the Na’vi. The growing animosity between the two groups ultimately leads to a war in which Sully has to chose between his people, and the Na’vi way of life he has grown to love. What you experience is the gripping story of one mans struggles between the loyalty to his race, and his love for Neytiri.

It’s so much more then just a science fiction movie full of fifteen foot tall warrior Smurfs (Neytiri is by far the sexiest alien I’ve ever seen!) and giant spaceships. Avatar is an updated version of the stories of Colonization and subsequent destruction of the native populations that riddle our history books. It tells the story of humans greed and destruction, an all too reoccurring theme in the modern world, versus the natives love for nature. Think of it as a futuristic version of Pocahontas mixed with pieces Terminator and Titanic. It is a movie full of betrayal, war, love, greed, pain, sorrow, and victory. From start to finish Avatar catches your eye with the breathtaking imagery. However as the movie goes on, the story shows that it too is not to be taken lightly. Avatar not only sets the bar for visual effects, and filming techniques, it also shows that special effects movies can be driven by an equally powerful story. Everything about the movie leaves you in awe. The animals and landscape created are certainly jaw-dropping, and the story is no joke. Avatar is by far the best movie made in the last ten years, and sets the bar for all films in the coming decade. Overall Avatar deserves a 4.5 out of 5 stars. While it was amazing, there were a few parts of the movie that had you feeling a little let down. Mostly the lack of development of the background. However Avatar’s pitfalls are outweighed by it wonderful story, and even better visuals. It’s definitely worth the money to go and see it.