Movie Review 1 - UCO 1200

Rating: 9/10 (28 August 2010)

Avatar is a one of a kind film with all of the animation built into it. I enjoyed this movie a lot mainly because I am a graphic design major in college and there was so much work put into Avatar to make bring out the detail in the animation to make it look as realistic as possible. Though this film was almost three hours, I did not find myself restless and ready to leave. The movie kept me tuned in and focused on the plot, which is one of the key factors in developing a successful movie. The plot of Avatar was very good and I towards the end of the movie, I actually wanted the humans to lose. When I think about it, it seems weird because I am human, but James Cameron did a wonderful job with the plot to make my emotions and thoughts turned against my own race. As much as I loved this film there was a few things I did not like about it.
I felt that some of the scenes in Avatar were a little too long. The movie overall was not too long, it just seemed that some of the scenes dragged out longer than they should have. For example, the scene before the sex scene, where they are walking around the secret trees, I think they walk around the talk about the trees for too long. Beside that I cannot think of anything else I disliked about the film. Avatar is also similar to the movie Dances with Wolves.
Dances with Wolves has a similar plot to Avatar's. They are both about a white man who finds a native culture and eventually learns the ways of that culture. The man starts to become part of the natives so much that he is willing to turn against his own kind in order to defend the natives. Avatar is just a more sci-fi type movie, with advanced technology. Avatar was one of the great movies that people will always refer to.