James Cameron's Avatar

I anticipated this movie for a very long time since the production began in 2004. I am extremely glad that I waited this long for I did not go home dissapointed. The CGI quality was at it's height of technology, the story completely original and solid with superb acting to go with it.

The story is set in a futuristic world where some greedy rich bastards found a new mineral that would make them richer than they already are. The only glitch is, the local people called the Na'vi's hated the fact that the "Sky People" destroys their forest(they refer to the forest as Mother). The scientist then decided to create artificial Na'vi's so that later on these puppets would blend in with the real Na'vis and gain their trust. Our hero, Jake Sully is an injured Marine paralysed from the waist down was chosen to be one of the host identity to be incorporated into the Na'vi puppets. The hosts' consciousness is transfered to the Na'vi bodies that were genetically enginereed for some time. When they are transfered into their Na'Vi bodies they are called Avatars. When Jake Sully was on a mission, he accidently got left behind and spent the night in a forest he had only set foot for a few hours. Trying to survive from the creatures that thought he might make a good dinner, he was saved by a (real) Na'Vi girl who knew he wasn't one of them. Neytiri(as she later was known) brings Jake to her people and the elders(who are her parents, which makes her the princess of some sort) decides that he shall be trained to be one of them. Guess ho was in charge of babysitting him?
It's so obvious.
Much to Neytiri's chagrin, she deems Jake as 'fool' and 'ignorant child' but he eventually falls in love with their way of life and of course, Neytiri.
A ruthless soldier Captain Quatrich approached Jake proposing that he becomes one of Na'vis and find out the main site of the precious
mineral I mentioned earlier. In exchange for that information, he promised Jake a spine surgery that will enable him to walk again. Tempted by this offer, Jake agrees to be the underdog. Thorn between his great need to walk again and his newfound love for the Na'Vis, what will jake do?
I will stop here as it will ruin the rest of the story for those who haven't watched it. ^^

Characters:

Jake Sully as a Na'Vi and as himself.


Zoe Saldana as Neytiri.



Fun Facts:

James Cameron intended to release Avatar after Titanic but the CGI quality was not advanced so he had to put off this project for 10 years. He decided it was ready to make after seeing Gollum from Lord of the Rings.
The Na'Vis are called ThunderSmurfs affectionately buy fans.
Na'Vis are catlike people whose average height is about 10-12 feet. Yes, that's two humans put on top of one another. They are tall, lanky beautiful creatures.
Only 40% is real acting. The rest is CGI. The beads, headdresses and the very being of Na'vis are all computer generated.
You could see the ethereal creatures in Avatar that were based on our world animals. Horses with two pairs of frontal legs, monkeys two pairs of arms, hammerhead rhinocerous, dragons, and luminescent jellyfishes that glides about beautifully in the air, dogs with three claws and giant spiral fungis.