This movie was done with a lot of craft and finesse because it made far fetched plot points seem very plausible and realistic; with the way they were set up and executed so smoothly. What could have been a very hokey and painful movie to watch, was not because of the great tact by James Cameron. I would compare it to Iron Man in this way: Both movies have all the makings to be really corny, but were done so well that it managed to escape such a fateful outcome.
I was very affected by the green message of the movie. The people of the planet Pandora co-exist with nature and work with it not against it. The humans in this movie were trying to destroy nature for the sake of profit and greed. Jake Sulley said that where the sky people (humans) are from, there is no more green. That is true in much of the world today. I also noticed a lot of the humans in this movie were often inside a plane or a robot. In many scenes they were busy controlling some sort of machinery.
I got into my car when the movie was over, I drove the "machinery" like the humans in the movie did, all the way home in my barren land where they tore down most of nature to make room for man, I never felt more like a human than at this time and I didn't like it. I never saw it that way before until this movie. This movie opened my eyes to the disturbing revelation to my life as a human.
It made me see as if for the first time, the way that we really live. No matter how green we become, it won't matter because we destroyed great chunks of it to make room for us. But, we live in climates that is too cold or too hot. If it were perfect year round, we would never have needed houses to begin with. We could not walk around almost naked like the blue people in this movie and not suffer from exposure. I would have liked living like them better than the way we live if we had nice weather. Oh well.
I saw Avatar in 3D and that was amazing. I guess I'm a 3D virgin. I had no idea how spectacular 3D was. All movies should be in 3D. Seeing in 3D is like seeing it as I would in real life, as if I were there. Despite that being said, when I saw the planet Pandora, it seems so fake at times. It was all digital. The trees did not even look real. The backgrounds on this alien planet looked so fake!! In that way, I wish the special effects were better.
The blue people were done really well. I enjoyed their characters a lot. I was taken by surprise by the spunk and personality of the blue aliens. They are a big part of what made the movie entertaining. Some people complained that the movie did not have developed characters. I could see that, but I really thought they were developed enough for me to get emotionally involved and care what their outcomes would be.
