I know I'm two or so months behind, but I finally seen Avatar. I've wanted to see it, but paying $3 extra dollars for an already expensive movie ticket irritates me. I don't understand why I can't keep the 3D glasses from previous movies, bring them, and pay the normal ticket price. I'm not a 3d nerd so I can't say that 3D movies excite me. In fact I have some issues with my inner ears and I'm constantly afraid I'll be sick at 3D movies, thankfully that hasn't happened yet. Personally, I think the movie could have been just as good without 3D...my fiance thinks the 3D was amazing and partially made the movie. I really did like this movie. It's been a while since I've seen a movie that was really engaging and thoughtful. The story was good, the visuals were good too, but I really enjoyed the story. If this is one of those movies based of a book I'd go out and buy it immediately...I don't think it is though. I thought the characters were well developed...though the main guy's dialogue was a little dull from time to time. I'm not sure if that was on purpose to reflect the whole trained brain of the military that was exemplified at other points of the movie....or if it was just poor writing for his dialogue.
My friend told me a lot of people were leaving the movie depressed, and I can't understand why. The good guys win, everyone lives happy ever after. People don't like having their culture and morals slapped in their face I guess. People have been taking it as a crack against America, and I didn't see it that way. I saw it as a crack at what we are doing as a race globally. Honestly, if you haven't thought of the issues presented in that movie before I don't know where you've been. I don't know. Maybe it's just my perspective. I have native american heritage and follow an...older religion...lets say. I've thought about much of the issues presented before...a lot. Breaking down the issues would be another 20 blog posts, but I liked the issues being presented and we all should think about how we treat our mother earth and what having faith in something really means. I also thought it was funny that the Vatican had to comment about the movie saying it misrepresents religion and earth based religions aren't valid. blah blah. I really don't want to throw a religious debate on the floor here, but it's all rather interesting!
"I don't understand why I can't keep the 3D glasses from previous movies, bring them, and pay the normal ticket price."
ReplyDeleteOooh I can answer this, having managed a movie theater =)
It's because you're not paying for the glasses, you're paying for the 3D technology since the 3D effects costs more than a normal movie. Lame, I know, but that's the "official" answer we were given by the studios. You can bring your old pair of glasses with, but they'll still charge you the extra fee to see it in 3D.
To be honest, I haven't seen a movie in 3D since I left the theater - fortunately the theater out here where I live now offers both 3D and normal format for a film, so we saw the non-3D version of Avatar. While I'm sure the 3D would have been neat to see with this one, it was still pretty cool in 2D =)
I enjoyed it though too, despite it obviously having an agenda, lol...