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Genre | Action/Adventure |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled, Color, AC-3, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Dolby, Widescreen |
Contributor | Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington See more |
Language | English, Spanish, French |
Studio | 20th Century Fox, Fox |
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A reluctant hero. An epic journey. A choice between the life he left behind and the incredible new world he's learned to call home. James Cameron's Avatar - the greatest adventure of all time.
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After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na'vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he's supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na'vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron's complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na'vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D technology to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron's crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery. Maybe it's the fact that Cameron seems torn between his two loves--awesome destructive gizmos and flower-power message mongering--that makes Avatar's pursuit of its point ultimately uncertain. That, and the fact that Cameron's dialogue continues to clunk badly. If you're won over by the movie's trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, useful archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be able to overlook the unsurprising central plot. (The overextended "take that, Michael Bay" final battle sequences could tax even Cameron enthusiasts, however.) It doesn't measure up to the hype (what could?) yet Avatar frequently hits a giddy delirium all its own. The film itself is our Pandora, a sensation-saturated universe only the movies could create. --Robert Horton
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 3.52 ounces
- Item model number : MFR024543656067#VG
- Director : James Cameron
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled, Color, AC-3, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Dolby, Widescreen
- Release date : April 22, 2010
- Actors : Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Lang
- Dubbed: : Spanish, French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : Unqualified (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B002VPE1AW
- Writers : James Cameron
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,839 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Compared to the 1080 Blu-ray, the 4K visual quality is far and above better. The old version looks fine on a 1080 TV, but looks awful on a 4K TV due to the built-in upscaling most of them do. I am pretty sure the original 1080 version was lightly compressed, too, given the original edition included no extra features. This means even stacking the deck in its favor, it still does not come close to the 4K edition.
If you want top-tier visual quality without artifacts from upscaling regular HD or compression artifacts from streaming, you can't go wrong with the 4K version.
For those of you who are reading this under the DVD release in November, 2010, I suggest that this release does have much to offer over the theatrical release, especially if you get it in Blu-Ray. The 18 extra minutes add a lot of balance to the story of the conflict between the humans and the Na'vi, before the attack on home tree. It also adds a lot of depth to Jake Sully's motivations to take the side of the Na'vi against Col. Quaritch and Co. To the theologically inclined, there is even some good material in the incomplete scenes, which did not even get into the extended versions. Some of the material on the second and third disks is a bit silly, but we've come to expect some chaff on these sets.
For those of you who are reading this under the DVD release of 22 April, I agree with others who are critical of this 'bare bones' release, not in 3-D and with none of the extras we may have been lead to expect. The only extras are alternate sound tracks in Spanish and French, plus Subtitles for the hearing impaired. For a minimal release, I would give the DVD package 3 stars. The only other advantage is that by NOT being in 3-D, certain lighting aspects are better than 3-D in the theatre.
Another, somewhat subliminal view of the movie is that it represents all the major stages of life, especially the rebirth of baptism, growth into belonging in the community, marital union, and death. Ultimately, it gives one the sense of a sinner's return to a state of grace in the garden.
In order to answer some critics, I am certain, as Cameron says himself, that the story is a gemish of every SciFi novel and film he has read or seen. There is even a hint of 'Return of the Jedi' in that both Pandora and Endor are habitable moons of gas giant planets, similar to the moons of Jupiter.This is not a bad thing. People have been retelling the same story over and over for centuries. The post-Biblical story of Simon Magus was resurrected and retold as the Faust story ever since the fourteenth century.The question is, does Cameron tell it better? I suspect he comes out in the lead by a nose
The skeleton of the story is similar to 'white man scouts indians, white man goes over to Indians, white man helps Indians fight cavalry, Indians win'. My dim memory of 'Little Big Man', with Dustin Hoffman, suggests this was the best exemplar of this skeleton. The big advance over that skeleton is based on the Avatar process, and on the one hand, the advantages it gives to Jake Scully to make contact, and on the other hand, the disadvantages, when the colonel back at home base can cut him off from his Avatar body in the blink of an eye.
The second leg of this movie is the absolutely perfect technical realization of Pandora and its inhabitants. I don't think that even the floating mountains are original (I have a suspicion these showed up in a Larry Niven story) I am certain the huge trees and the sentient connections between the flora and fauna are not original. But the details of how all these were realized is impecable. I am not well versed in movie technology, but I have seen very good movies, such as Ridley Scott's Gladiator, where the editing, especially in heavy action scenes, is very, very choppy. But Russell Crowe keeps your attention, so you don't care. A slip in filming or editing in 'Avatar' would have been disastrous. But there are no slips. Not one. Cameron and Co get all the little stuff exactly right, even so far as to invent the Na'vi language which sounds both familiar and foreign at the same time. The only 'background' aspect of the film which doesn't POP is James Horner's score. It is 'good enough', but not so good I will run out and buy a CD.
The third leg of this movie is the aura of spirituality evoked by the unique combination of story, backstory, and effectiveness of the actors portraying the Na'vi to show how they feel. As Sigourny Weaver said recently, Cameron was able to develop at least three very good female characters in this movie. Zoe Saldana was especially effective in being alternately tough and vulnerable behind her Na'vi persona. We are used to this by now, ever since Gollum turned out to be the most interesting character in 'Lord of the Rings'. As heroic and inspiring as LOTR was, Avatar is even better, and it knows when to stop. I literally cried through the second half of the film, so taken was I by the evocative spirit of the Na'vi and their environment. This is tree-hugging writ large, very large. I was taken aback when I ran into a passage in 1 Timothy 4:2-4 which warned against itching ears, and wandering away to myths. I can wish that the level of spiritual octane in our religious services and teachings could come close to the artistry being applied here to 'mere myths'.
A week after writing this review, it occurred to me that there are mythic undercurrents to this movie, especially in the realization of the Na'vi which dig deep into some of our most basic notions of the divine. In some early Jewish writings, Adam and Eve are described as being clothed in effervescent light (just like the Na'vi) and who must be clothed with artificial clothes when they fall from grace. The Na'vi are still connected to their God, and fight to preserve that connection.
The links to classic spirituality and folklore just keep coming. I just discovered, in the title to Howard Schwartz' book 'The Tree of Souls' that this tree was, in Jewish folklore, the heavenly analogue to the Tree of Life in the garden of Eden. The author, Schwartz told me he has no idea if Cameron got the idea from Schwartz' book, published in 2004.
As an aside, I have to add that allowing for the layers of special effects, Zoe Saldana is simply outstanding in this flick. Give us more!
LOTR surprised me, because I thought it couldn't be done, but it was. Avatar did not surprise me, but that doesn't mean it failed, because it simply lived up to expectations, as the expectations were very, very high.
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I bought the original release version of Avatar Collectors Edition on Blu-ray in 2010. Which included the Theatrical Release, Special Edition & Extended Cut; 155min, 163min & 170min respectively. My favourite version of all being EC. I was unhappy to discover (after waiting 14yrs) that when Avatar 4K first released in July 2023 it only included the TR. I bought it anyway but I have to say I didn't realise how much I missed the EC version until I watched the TR in 4K. Thats annoying the way they chose not to include all versions. Some may argue underhand or cynical.
Now they have released the Collectors Edition in 4K I chose to purchase the US release. The first thing I can say is that the Collectors Edition US version has Dolby Vision, whereas the 2023 initial release is HDR+at least for the UK release. Perhaps someone can confirm what the initial US release was?
Anyway I was staggered by the difference of the two 4K releases. The Dolby Vision version is substantially ahead of the HDR+ release. I am delighted with the choice I made! Anyway the NEW releases are TR 162min, SE 170min & EC 178min. My only reservation was that the TR is the only one that includes Dolby Atmos, SE and EC are DTS-HD MA 5.1 only but while I am sure Atmos would have generally been welcomed on ALL, the resulting sound (as original BR) is very good. Since I haven't bought the UK Collectors Release Version I cannot confirm if that has Dolby Vision also, perhaps someone will?
Can't wait to see the sequel in 3D