AVATAR James Cameron's Magic.

[Bala (Karthik)]

Booked at Inox 3D for Saturday

P.S: Padam puriyuma nu bayama irukku...

[NOV]

minimum rendu thadava paarkkanum

I will see 3D version next week

[Nerd]

What's with this Star Wars fixation? Ivanga ellam 2001 paathadhe illiya? 2001 wallops the behind of every sci-fi movie released till now in every department. Star Wars is a Chutti TV cartoon, in comparison. Naansanssss

Yeh, star wars asingam. And 2001 was in the 60s for Gods sake

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/ - The consensus seems to be visually spectacular but indha character development, emotional kOsant ellAm kammiyA irukkaam..

[P_R]

What's with this Star Wars fixation? Ivanga ellam 2001 paathadhe illiya? 2001 wallops the behind of every sci-fi movie released till now in every department.

Star Wars was so not "ennada solla vareenga", which IMO is important for the 'dazzlement' of a sci-fi

[tamizharasan]

Star wars was way ahead of its times when it was released. I am not really sure how many of us are qualified to talk about that. My american colleagues said that they were stunned when they watched the movie for first time on theatres. It is not fair to compare star wars with recent movies.

[Nerd]

But the thing is 2001: A Space Odessey is one hundred times better in terms of being visually spectacular / shockingly good for the time it released, and a thousand times better in terms of other cinematic aspects.

[kid-glove]

Stuff in 2001 was put together by years of background work done by Kubrick with NASA experts. He employed real engineers to experiment and recreate the backdrop with some sense of plausibility. Speculations are American govt, & Nasa had funded Kubrick to do this film as a propaganda machine for people believing into their moon/space travel which would later be staged by Kubrick in film studios.

Some of the mechanical sets, or authentic makeup for the Apes, for example, were designed to perfection. He outdid everything prior to this and IMO, will stand the test of time as the pinnacle of the genre. Revamped the genre when it was going through a phase of shoddy production values, plastic aliens and parodies of themes. He made something that works on one unassuming simplification - visual images accompanied with music that works like a silent musical. The film could be seen and experienced solely like a symphony.

Then there is a question of authenticity in this experience, the logical step was to not show the Alien. This, IMO, is sheer genius. We talk about genre subversions, like Reservoir dogs being a heist film without heist, and so on. But this is something else. The idea of far-evolved superior species watching, guiding, and monitoring our cosmical-evolution is a potent one. Yet, you are not allowed to fixate aliens into fixed dimensions, an image that would ultimately be World-ly when it could be anything but that. Thus arrived the "Monolith", as mysteriously bland as a visualized simulacrum of an 'Alien'. The implanting of Monolith at various evolutionary junctions of Humans is to be seen (& is shown in the film) from bird's eye view and not from a human standpoint POV (Kubrick never shows the "Monolith" through eyes of primitive apes or the fully developed human but placed among the vicinage.). The lack of first-person perspective and the resulting emotional insulation/detachment is absolutely vital IMO, to speculate on a wider, interesting and 'grander' concept. So, "Enna solla vareenga" I think not. Although the suggestions and subliminal interpretations had feigned such an image.

Sticking to innovativeness(most of which remains discreet) and proportionate quality, it out scales almost all digial recreations since then. CGI with green screen was developed by Lucas, which to be honest is a big innovation and changed cinema forever. With limitless potential to provide 'grandness'. But then, as Bowman encounters the Jupiter monolith which triggers a Stargate sequence that eventually ports him into another side of universe. Entrapped by the human prison or zoo if you will, & guarded by Alien (who we still don't see) till his death. The talent in canvassing this, without much distortion, into images is cinematic genius.

Lucas had been inspired by 2001 as a kid. Spielberg as well. Such genre masters, Sci-Fi revolutionists concede 2001 to be mind-blowingly put together, improbable & inconceivable without a genius. A landmark moment that redefined and expanded the genre. As was "Paths of Glory" to War, "Barry Lyndon" to Period piece, "Lolita" to romance, "Dr,Strangelove" to cold-war, "Shining" to horror, "A clockwork Orange" to ultraviolence.

[MADDY]

I hate him for making all us so-called filmmakers in the world feel like ants. (Read chooths)

they are not meant for reading, mr.RGV :P .....

Avatars promos look visually stunning and a kickass indianised title......ive liked all Cameron's movies including Titanic - must watch ya......

[ajithfederer]

Padam kandippa odirum adhu matter-ae illa. But how big is the deal. Great idea to release it at christmas time and at the end of fall school season. Some records are set to stumble i guess.

[P_R]

All very well kig-glove.
As always, my only complaints about certain artists are that they are not like some other artists whom I like better