It is always easy to criticize

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 2010)

Until I see Avatar, I was not a big fan of CGI in movies. Actually I always believed in war scenes without any computers, any digital effects, we can compare war scenes in Braveheart and Lord of the Rings trilogy, former was pure human, latter was pure fabrication, I am sure of Peter Jackson said "Come on guys, let the computers do the dirty work. Who is going to deal with this mess." But, Avatar and eventually James Cameron who does not have a lot of good movies, has just started a fresh method which involving both digital effects and human beings. This technology was never used like that. But I do not want to talk about Pandora's beauties, enhanced 3D stuff. I want to talk about the screenplay.
I heard lots of things about Avatar. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. Critics about this movie emphasized on lack of originality and human factors. They treat this movie like it was made by only computers. They treat like there is no any human factor involved. And after I see this movie, I understand that those critics are terribly wrong.
First, this is a Hollywood movie. So, you cannot expect a very original script, guys come on, this is a movie made by James Cameron, not Charlie Kaufman. Of course it is gonna be a little bit the same we see before. Second, you can see determination in Pandora's creation process. I have never seen such 3D things that close to reality. This cannot be just built through entering some numbers to a computer.
Third, let us keep examining screenplay. I expected only jumping fighting big blue guys, gunships, bombs, guns and lots of stuff like this and I did not care about the screenplay. But after I watched Avatar, you can see there are many harsh and righteous criticism about way we live. When you see Na'vi people who witnessed the destruction of their home, you say to yourself "Wait a second. I have seen this on the news. For a dozen of times maybe!!!". And of course, there are some environmentalist messages which we see more than rare recently. But I am not used to see such criticisms on American strategies about foreign countries in such a pure Hollywood movie.
Avatar is not just some guys fighting, jumping, flying on a planet which created by computers. James Cameron, surprisingly, gives a message to us, to politicians: Now can you see where we are going, where the world is going?