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1.  There are spoilers ahead (in the rant section. You can safely read the review)!  If you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want to know what happens then don’t read the rant section.  However, it is hard to spoil a movie that is as predictable as this one.  I will get to that later.

2.  It is apparently very hard for me to just watch a movie these days.  It is too easy for me to sit there and try to analyze the motives behind the makers of the movie, even more so when the motive is so blatantly in your face.  This isn’t conducive to an enjoyable movie experience.  You will hear more about this in the rant section.

With those two things in mind I will give you my (mostly) objective thinking on the movie.

Let me start with story.  There is absolutely nothing revolutionary here.  It is a story most of us have seen many times and probably will see many more times.  It was predictable.  It was cliched.  But it was a good handling of an unoriginal storyline.  The reason this story has been reused so many times is because people like to see it.  So don’t expect anything original (there is nothing new under the sun) but do expect a good handling of the story.

The dialog was clunky at times but was otherwise ok.  Again, nothing spectacular.  You could tell which parts were supposed to be funny but they felt forced so I really didn’t laugh at all.

I had heard over and over that this movie was doing for special effects in movies what Star Wars did back in the late 70′s.  This was probably the main reason I wanted to see it.  I had hopes of a good story and writing but, as I said, those were just eh.  I will say that the special effects were amazing.  This was the best part of the movie.

The world Simvastatin warnings was beautiful Plavix 75 mg and the Buy Atacand Online computer generated Astelin 10ml - 2 sprayer characters were exceptional.  This is definitely a reason to see the movie if there is nothing else.  There were only a couple times that I felt like I was watching a mostly animated movie and that is quite a feat.  The animated characters and the human actors interacted seamlessly.  If this is the beginning of a new technology I am excited to see what will come in the future.  I was very impressed.

A note to parents: The aliens in the movie wear very little as many tribal type groups do (think National Geographic) however this was not made a center piece.  Their clothing covered but barely.  I would say that the animators did a good job of creating a group that obviously lives off the land but doesn’t turn it into a sexual thing.  Discernment is definitely needed considering our cultural norms but it didn’t bother me.  One scene of implied sex is present.  The movie implied that this act effectively bonded the two for life (marriage?).  A small amount of language is used throughout the movie.

Overall I would say that this is an above average movie but it is the special effects that take it there.  Everything else is passable.

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I don’ t believe Side effects amoxicillin I have Buy Atacand Online seen a Actos 15 mg movie with Buy Femara Online a bigger agenda to date.  Maybe others have just hidden it better than this one.  The movie was bent on hating the writer and directors caricature humanity and glorifying nature and those who worship it.  There were four main groups in the movie:

1.  The corporate humans - portrayed as heartless and evil only out for their own gain.

2.  The military humans – stupid and evil destroyers

3.  The human scientists – this was the only redeeming group that belonged to humans. They were trying to understand the alien race and hold back the military and corporation from damaging the planet and the aliens that lived there.

4.  The Navi – the alien race that worships nature and was the writers portrait of what we should be.

I want you to understand that I know that there are people out there exactly like the evil humans in the movie.  But to characterize all humans as world destroyers is naive and irresponsible.

I really enjoy science fiction and fantasy.  It is a great way to engage your imagination and get a brief respite from the “real” world.  One of the things I enjoy about this genre is the imaginative way writers think of other races for their story.  In this movie it seemed that the writer just took everything bad about humans (from their viewpoint) and flipped it and came up with the Navi.  Humans are war mongers: the Navi are peaceful.  Humans destroyed their planet and want to destroy another: the Navi worship nature and are intimately connected to it.  Humans are callous and irrational: the Navi are shown as loving, rational, and wise.  Humans equal bad: Navi equal good.  Technology equals bad: nature equals good.  You get the idea.  In the end, the evil humans are sent packing back to the earth they destroyed.  Serves them right.

I also couldn’t help notice the parallels with a recent presidential administration (that this movie was in development during).  One of the characters mentions that the military is going for a “shock and awe” campaign against the Navi.  Hmmmm.  I wonder where that came from?  And the whole point of the humans being there was about a natural resource (Unobtainium) they wanted Trazodone 100 mg to control.   Are there Ceftin 125 mg parallels there?  I think so.

To sum Synthroid 50mcg - 200 pills up my rant, this movie Clozaril 100 mg stank of political and social commentary.  It was so drenched in it that it was very hard for me to enjoy the movie on its own merits.  I get it.  Humans are evil and we need to change.  At the end of the movie that does happen.  The main character becomes Navi.  He has seen the error of his ways and changes. Completely.  And the evil humans?  Well they are send packing back to their ruined planet.  The end.

Now, I understand that there is evil in the world and in the current system.  I don’t disagree with the writers premise that the world needs change.  But there is no magical “back to nature” change that could occur that would relieve us of our evilness.  Sin would rear its ugly head and we would end up back where we started.  What the world needs is a change that only Jesus can bring. (True change.  Not just attending church and acting morally.)  I don’t really expect Hollywood to key in on this change but it is the truth that people need to hear.  There are so many “answers” to our ills out there but there is only one true answer.  Jesus.  Seek Him and you won’t be let down because He satisfies eternally.

Brian

Update:  I watched this movie again after it came out on DVD.  Pretty much the same reaction.  Beautiful effects and in your face social and political commentary which yanked me out of the story several times.  When I watch a science fiction or fantasy film I enjoy going to another world for a little while.  Putting  in lines like “shock and awe” pulled me out of the movie and reminded me of real life.  I watch documentaries for things like that, not movies.  Oh well.