Kate and I finally decided to see Avatar this past weekend at Tysons Corner. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have at least heard about this movie. When describing the movie, Kate made a very keen observation. She said, “Avatar: A fun film, sort of Pocahontas meets Ferngully meets The Matrix, with a dash of BattleTech thrown in for spice.” Yeah, I think that sums it up quite well and you can read her full review here.
Being a 3D graphic artist myself, I’m always interested to see technology pushed to new heights. There really aren’t many movies in my memory that have mixed live actors with character generated creations. While the natives in the film, the Na’vi, look to be about twice as tall as a human, it never seemed out of place when the new races stood next to each other. In my opinion, that is the sign of a job well done.
While we did see the movie in all it’s glorious 3d, I’m not exactly sure that a film like this needed it. Honestly, 3D films are nothing more than a gimmick to me. They’re fine for some of those short films at Disney World but I really don’t feel that I need to see a full length film that way. Avatar had enough visual eye candy going on that it could have easily done without it.
Now that 3D televisions are starting to come out in Japan, it seems that some of their broadcast programs are going to be done in 3D. There’s already a station in Korea that’s putting out 3D content. Will it catch on? More importantly, will it catch on here in the States? I just can’t see it as being the future of visual media considering the fact that the technology has been around for so long. You think it would have caught on by now if it was ever going to grow that popular. Personally, I’m waiting for movies to go hologram!
They did a good job with the 3D in Avatar. Not cheesy 3D at all, it just added depth to the movie, while I’ll agree that it’s not needed, it is cool.
No, it wasn’t cheesy but it really didn’t do much in the way of enhancing the film for me.