第1个回答 2010-08-26
Movie Review: Avatar
Currently one of the most popular things to do in your free time is to watch the 3D blockbuster大轰动 Avatar, nevertheless a long wait in a queue for a ticket seems a certainty.
If you know a little about American history, you may find Avatar to be a cinematized拍成电影 retelling of the plight境况 of native Indian people driven away from their ancestral lands 400 years ago.
In the movie the story occurs in the year 2154. A marine 海的named Jake is dispatched 派遣to a faraway planet called Pandora where lives blue-skinned Na'vi people and hosts a precious matter, which a greedy company head covets暗地. In order to win Na'vi people's trust and then convince them to decamp逃走, Jake transfers his spirit into a remotely controlled Na'vi body, called an avatar.
But as Jake mingles交往 with the Na'vi People, he gradually develops a close bond with the locals and finally decides to stand on their side against the human threat.
Having watched the movie in an IMAX theater, I, together with literally everyone else in the huge room, were thrilled and amazed at the jaw-dropping visual feast it offered.
Despite switching frequently between CGI and a real life cast投射(, the movie doesn't discomfort its audience at all, thanks to a series of technological breakthroughs, a well-known trademark of James Cameron, the film's director.
However, at three hours running time, the plot heavy movie can prove difficult to sit through without yawning. Having said that, I don't think the story of Avatar is any worse than other Hollywood sci-fi epics. A huge leap in techniques with Avatar fails to drag the storytelling to a higher level. This may suggest that a fundamental change in storytelling is far more arduous;困难的
than creating cutting-edge material, and at the same time it may also prove that a refreshing story is more important.
Even James Cameron himself has said in an interview with Newsweek that movies are about storytelling, and humans playing humans.
If Avatar impacts you more on the physical side, we have to expect Cameron's future movies will both feast our eyes and touch our hearts.
On my one-to-ten movie scale, I give Avatar an eight.