I haven't, but everyone tells me it has no original story whatsoever, but lots of good graphics.

Kinda like Crysis.

It releases January the 1st here in Arg.

yeah, I'm plan on going a second time, taking my wife as an excuse to watch it again lol. What i liked was that you could not tell what was going to happen and it wasn't all fast action it was also slow action. Sometimes fast action has me up against my seat all stressed but this movie was kinda laid back action at times. 

Movie was visually stunning.  Plot was decent.  The Acting was good.  I give it an A-

From having seen trailers only it reminds me a lot of The last Samurai, District 9 and maybe Lost Planet, lol.

It looks like the kind of movie that takes a bit from many movies and puts them together.

Does anyone else see the similarities between Avatar and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Gully?

Avatar was easily the most visually stunning thing I've ever seen in a film, good acting, good storyline, it was just awesome. And Camel, I agree, Clash of the Titans looks awesome, my little sister wants me to take her to it when it comes out.

I want to go see it so bad in 3D

I saw it last night in 3D and thought it was visually stunning. The detail of the CGI is amazing, every inch is finely detailed and I would go see it again.

haven't seen it yet. hope to see it soon!

i1984

Hanni

I haven't, but everyone tells me it has no original story whatsoever, but lots of good graphics.

Kinda like Crysis.

It releases January the 1st here in Arg.

Ok I know they have cinemas in Argentina, but what you dont have is ImaX! Take that you Argentinian!

http://www.todoshowcase.c...nes.php?cod_cine=11027
http://www.facebook.com/p...ARGENTINA/138855743916 (just in case the other wasn't clear enough)

Sir Loin

Yeah saw it in 3D. Excellent visuals. Was definitely one of the better movies of 2009. Very predictable story though imo. Was not surprised at all with the plot. That was it's biggest drawback. Everything unfolded like you would expect. I would still go see it in the theater again though.

bighairycamel

I saw it too.  Probably the best movie I've seen in 2009, up there with District 9. 

The plot was very predictable though.  I pretty much guessed the whole plotline before I ever stepped foot in the theatre.  That said though, the story was still engaging, the acting was top notch, and I felt a real emotional attachment to the characters.  I would see it again if I wasn't so cheap.

I have to echo the sentiments here. Anyone who is familiar with american history with the western expansion era can basically take a test on what the story is going to be about and how it will end (with a certain assumed bias) and score nearly 100% easily enough. The elements that wouldn't be included are the science fiction aspects and overal spiritual outlook assumed from the indigenous population, which was interesting on its own. The CGI was done well, although i think they over did it on the making the natives look "human". Granted the overal structure and character design wasn't bad, but well, instead of "redskins" we have "blueskins" (please forgive the derogatory analogy).
 
How the movie was portrayed and the elements it captured was done well though. I was interested in the political whys of where they were more than the overarching backstory introducing the main character though. The 3 line explanation of "we want to make money from x resource" was a little overly brief in my opinion, but it does convey the point well enough.
 
My girlfriend geeked out over it though. She didn't want to see it at first, since it was sci-fi and she loves fantasy settings, but she really got into it. She went on and on about WoW afterwards and made several paritys in both visual effects and overal settings with character designs. I saw it in 3d as well. The actual 3d elements were rather minimal and somewhat underwhelming. What was done well with them, were the moving through crowd sequences, the holographic projections for computer screens and the floating fauna/seed sequences.
 
Overal it is worth watching and it doesn't get bogged down with too much plot to get those with shorter attention spans bored with the movie.

i1984

Hanni

I haven't, but everyone tells me it has no original story whatsoever, but lots of good graphics.

Kinda like Crysis.

It releases January the 1st here in Arg.

Ok I know they have cinemas in Argentina, but what you dont have is ImaX! Take that you Argentinian!

I'm german.

I'd like some advice. I've never watched a movie on IMAX. Do you think I should go to IMAX for this one?

Halo_003

Hanni

I'd like some advice. I've never watched a movie on IMAX. Do you think I should go to IMAX for this one?

Yes. I saw it in regular.. But after seeing how stunning it looked in just the regular.. Then remembering Transformers in IMAX compared to regular.. It should be absolutely amazing. 

Cool, thanks.

Nice sig btw.

is anyone hoping for a second and third movie? I hope  he makes it.