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22 May

James Cameron returns and shows these wannabe rookie directors of recent times how it’s done.

Finally a good “old school” film that is worth remembering.

Last year was one of the weakest years in film-making that we can think of, even when extremely low quality films like Transformers 2, New Moon, and Wolverine are some of the biggest hits of the year, you know something is wrong.

Leave it up to Cameron to save the day with this fresh and unique cinematic experience. :P

The CGI makes the world of Pandora come alive, with lots of breathtaking scenery in the film.

The actors were good in their roles with Sam Worthington as Sully is effective in the leading role, we especially liked Stephen Lang in the role of Quaritch.

Thankfully the many millions of dollars spent on making Avatar were spent wisely – it is so much better than, hmm let’s say, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.

Overall Avatar is a good and entertaining science fiction epic. We recommend it. :)

Please excuse the trailer, it’s all that was available.

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When Jake’s brother is killed in a robbery, he decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora.

There Jake learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland.

In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity.

While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.

this is your popcorn hour ;) magic

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Yes we included goofs, click below

Goofs

  • Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The human Avatars in the movie all have 5 fingers and toes while the natives only have 4.The reason for this is to show subtle differences in the Avatars due to the mixing of human and native DNA.
  • Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Though it would seem Norm is standing next to his Avatar near the end of the movie (which would be physically impossible) we see multiple avatars with trousers and guns in the background.These are likely the other avatars we saw at the beginning of the movie.
  • Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene where Jake is looking at the photographs of the Na’vi on the refrigerator, the photographs themselves are 3D.This is not a mistake, however – in Avatar’s world, 3D photographs exist in 2154.
  • Plot holes: During the breakout scene at the bridge, Max uses an access badge to free Jake and the others, raising the question of why he is not identified as the inside man from the access log.(It’s not the guard’s access badge – Max reaches into his own back pocket as he goes straight to the ID scanner.)
  • Continuity: Jake Sully pulls a blanket over Grace Augustine in the scene where they are flying north in the mobile link-up trailer after Grace is shot and leaves it folded at the top.The next shots alternate showing the blanket flat with no folds and the blanket with folds.
  • Continuity: During the shot where Quaritch says to Jake “That’s called taking an initiative son”, Jake’s hands are rested up on the hologram table.In the next shot where Quaritch says “I wish I had ten more like you”, Jake’s hands are down at his sides.
  • Factual errors: A large mining machine, a bucket wheel excavator [BWE], is seen during the shuttle landing sequence.It is shown operating incorrectly, with the descending part of the wheel against the rock.A BWE operates with the ascending part of the wheel against the rock, so the spoil can fall into the buckets.
  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During one of Jake’s video logs, Grace can be seen working on an experiment in the background.In the process, she draws up some liquid in an Eppendorf pipette.However, in the process of transferring the liquid to its intended vessel, she inverts the pipette, which would severely damage it.
  • Revealing mistakes: The first part of the credits are shown over panoramic views of Pandora.Most of these shots are recycled from the movie, and reversed left to right to make it a bit less obvious.One in particular was taken from Jake’s ikran first flight sequence, but with Jake and the ikran removed.But you can still the ikran’s shadow pass over the rocks.
  • Continuity: In the scene where Parker is shown playing golf on the indoor golf course in RDA, the first time he hits the ball, there are two other balls lying on the course side by side.In the next shot, two are distant from each other and in the shot after that, they are in their original position.
  • Continuity: Jake is reviewing the structure of the home tree with Quaritch and Selfridge around the rotating 3-D map.When Jake makes a comment about the Na’vi studying him, his watch reads 2:19.Selfridge makes a comment about how the tree is sitting right over the richest Unobtanium deposit.When the camera cuts back to Jake his watch now displays 2:57.
  • Continuity: Before the bad guys bomb the tree-village, Jake is inside his bed.When the lid is being closed he has a plastic tube all across his forehead.Later on, when the lid is opened, the tube is gone.He was unconscious and his hands were by his side, so there was no way for him to move it.
  • Continuity: In the colonel’s robot there is a rear-view mirror.When we see the robot from the outside, it is very close to his head.But when we see shots from inside the robot, there is plenty of room around his head and we don’t see the mirror.
  • Continuity: When Quaritch is scolding Jake for making out with a Na’vi, Jake moves his head to the right.In the immediate next angle, his head is straight.
  • Continuity: In the scene where Jake wakes up from his link and Grace asks him, “Is the avatar safe?” and he replies, “Yeah Doc, and you are not gonna believe where I am,” her hand is on top of his shoulder.But as the camera angle changes back and forth her hand switches to the side of his upper arm and back to the shoulder without time to have made the move.
  • Continuity: When Jake is recording his first video log entry, he moves the recording camera around a little to get a better view of his face, and is looking directly at a screen to his right to see if he’s centered his face correctly.In the very next shot, he is staring straight forward at the camera.
  • Revealing mistakes: In the scene where the Na’vi are attempting to move Grace from her human body to her Avatar body, after she has died and one of the Na’vi moves to check for life in her Avatar, you can see her eyes twitch even though she is supposed to be dead.
  • Revealing mistakes: When Jake’s dead brother, Tom, is uncovered, he’s played by Sam Worthington.In the next shot of Tom being covered again it’s clearly someone else.
  • Continuity: When connecting with the Mountain Banshee for the first time, Jake’s hair switches from being over his left shoulder to being over his right between shots.(His hands are on the Banshee the whole time so he had no chance to change it.)
  • Continuity: When Seze first comes out of the tree, if the viewer watches carefully, he/she can see Neytiri’s ponytail being flung over her left shoulder, but in the next shot it was hanging down her back again.
  • Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Jake lands on Pandora for the first time, when all other personnel have gotten off the transport ship it is revealed that Jake is paraplegic.When he gets up from his seat into his wheelchair, after lifting his legs from the seat with his arms and putting them in place on the wheelchair, you can see him moving his left leg a bit backwards (without touching it).
  • Continuity: When the colonel is in the robot asking Jake to report to him, in one scene a red disconnect flag is hanging off the robot’s leg, but when the colonel starts to walk, the flag is gone.
  • Continuity: When Jake first tries to convince the Na’vi not to fight, and Tsu’tey shoves him, Tsu’tey’s eyes are colorless and gray.In the scenes before and after this, however, his eyes are clearly yellow.
  • Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Jake jumps off the cliff to avoid the Pandora cat the height of the cliff is obviously higher than when he looks back up at the cat from the bottom.
  • Plot holes: In the final air battle the guidance for missiles and guns works just fine although there are several times in the movie where it is stated that they do not work at all.

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