I have to say Avatar may just possibly be my favorite movie of all time. I saw it in the theatre in December of 2009 and I loved it the moment it started. It's really nothing new, I mean, the story has been many times before. For example, The Last of the Mohicans, Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, Atlantis, John Carter (Notice a lot of these have some sort of native tribe or alien culture in it. Weird right?) Well. The movie is done really well though, I mean the CGI is incredible. The actors were covered in what they call tracking dots that the special effects guys use to follow their gestures and expressions and whatnot that's why the actors look remotely close to their avatar or alien equivalent.
Basically the storyline is about a guy named Jake Sully
(played by Aussie, Sam Worthington) who happens to be a soldier, is also handicapped but that doesn't stop him from being a really hot Australian (Uses American accent in the movie) badass.
is sent to another planet named Pandora after the death of his twin brother who was a scientist. He goes to Pandora, taking his place and is linked to what they call an Avatar (hence, the name of the movie). The Avatar is a copy of the native aliens called Na'vi that live there on Pandora. They're basically the same, except Avatar's are made to look like their human host and they have five fingers and other certain small details that are different from the natives. So anyways, Jake Sully is placed inside his brother's avatar and sent out into the forest along with two other scientists Grace Augustine (played by Sigourney Weaver) and Norm Spellman (played by Joel David Moore) and befriends them and a rebellious female soldier named Trudy Chacon (played by Michelle Rodriguez)
He's basically spying for the asshole's, the hotheaded colonel (played by Stephen Lang) and the power hungry monster Parker Selfridge (played by Giovanni Ribisi) who came to Pandora for money. From the start of the movie, when Jake, Grace, and Norm head out to the forest to explore you see that they're being watched by a native named Neytiri
(played by the stunning and oh so gorgeous Zoe Saldana) She almost shoots them with her handy dandy bow and arrow but she notices that what the natives call a spirit (looks a lot like a glowing floating seed thing) lands on her bow and she sees it as a sign and holds back.
On their little adventure, Jake wanders off and pisses off an animal and gets it to chase him away from the other two and so they have no choice but to abandon him and wait till later to save him. During his night he gets lost and goes through hell trying to survive in a place that is so foreign to him. Neytiri finds him fighting off a pack of dogs and she has no choice but to kill them which only pisses her off more about him. He's intrigued with her from the start and follows her after she runs away. She tries to ward him off but he refuses and asks her to teach him about the forest, and learn how to understand it and how it's all connected. She insists that he's stupid and won't be able to learn but then he's like attacked by a bunch of tree spirits and he's just like what the hell and tries swatting them away
but she stops in her tracks and insists he come with her to her 'home tree'
At first her family is like
And they all kinda hate him because they know he's human and they don't like humans. but then they let him stay as long as Neytiri teaches him "their ways." She doesn't want to at first but then she agrees and they take a rest. When he wakes up he's back in his human body and the colonel and Parker both discuss with him about how good it would be to learn the Na'vi ways and get inside and try to get them to leave the home tree because the humans want to destroy the home tree. He agrees and wakes up and then things get interesting. Neytiri teaches him everything about being a Na'vi. Their culture, the way they live, the animals
what they eat, how to survive
how the forest and the they are all connected and can be one when they link these little hairs within their tails to the hairs on certain living things. Which can get really creepy. I mean. What the hell.
When I first saw that, I was like... uh... Okay this is weird.
But you get used to it.
I did.
Eventually.
So anyways, she teaches him so much he eventually becomes a Na'vi and gets his own Banshee which is like a horse/dragon. He loses sight of his mission and getting the Na'vi out of their home tree.
He falls in love with Neytiri and they do the nasty and make It official.
Which is also a really kinda awkward sex scene considering they use their tails... Do they have genitals? You just kind watch and you're like.
DO THEY???
I have no idea.
And you're like is this really happening?
With their tails?
I feel like it was a sentimental and really sweet scene but at the same time I'm just like
I saw it with my parents and after that we just kind looked at each other and agreed to pretend that it hadn't happened but we were like
Alright, no.
So anyway. The next day, the humans decide to take initiative and they start destroying the forest and Neytiri kind of has a meltdown.
Little does she know, Jake is sort of behind the whole thing and then he later admits to her the whole thing and she's like "I hate you!" and I was like wait what no you can't hate him. You guys are supposed to love each other. But she pretty much breaks up with him.
So he tries to save the day and protect them and fight the humans and such but then Grace AND Tracy both die and it's terrible and I was like
But then Jake comes back and makes amends with Neytiri and her family and they fight the humans and show them who's boss and everythings amazing and they're like "yeuh we won!"
And it really is a great but really long movie. In the end you'll be in tears of joy and you'll need a hug. (At least I was) like:
Ah that was so great.
Don't listen to anyone! it's a good movie. So watch it if you haven't.
Kirsten Bird Signing Off
And here's Sam in a Call of Duty commercial.
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