watching avatar was SO satisfying.
but before i begin my usual overly long spiel, i'd just like to mention:
shopping.
i went today and stepped into 313 for the first time and I LIKE IT!! i love the shops. it has mango zara forever21 aldo i.e. i can die happy. i become more and more fashion-conscious with every passing day. but i like it.
also to all the homies at.. home. in singapore, haha i HAVE to say this: shopping at forever21 (which i love ps) for me is like walking through a live catalogue. you see the clothes in real life, you ogle, you maybe try them on, but then you ONLY buy them in the states where it's like 30% cheaper hahahahahahah. in my head i sing na nee na nee poo poo LOL. i saw a dress i bought for USD 15, selling for i think 26 or 28 SGD. hahah awesome =)
YES so i just wanted to say that to spite people.
now.
AVATAR.
i LOVE sci fi, i LOVE fantasy, and i LOVE epic films and this had all of it.
it made me feel the way i feel when i see the epicness of a movie like lord of the rings. when i cry not cuz it's sad but cuz it's overwhelming. or i cry for an Ideal, for a Heroic something. that sense of nobility and selflessness and there-is-something-greater-out-there and we-live-for-a-reason / we-live-for-a-greater-purpose
i mean i guess we could be fooling ourselves when we feel like that, but i love it when i feel it. it's kinda silly and idealistic, but coming out of the movie and being in touch again with this sense of heroism and greater-than-yourself-ness (again the last time was lord of the rings, maybe slightly in the dark knight but that's a very different sort) made me think for a moment "see, this is why we Live. this, things like this, is why we continue." the should be.
soundtrack
ijust got this and i love it and am looping it nonstop. it has that epic quality to it, infused with the whole tribal/native/indigenous thing cuz of the film. I LOVE IT i need to find a good word to describe it. epic/tribal?cuz it's the kind of music mr dan uses too in his choreo and i've ALWAYS loved his kinda music/style it's aalwys been something i wanted to do and he's one of the first to REALLY put it on with the energy and all. but i never found a word.
but yeah. i love movie instrumentals i don't know why. james horner is amazing. and he also did the titanic, which was also directed by james cameron who clearly has an insane talent for epic films. i say it again - I LOVE EPIC FILMS, i love the soudntrack. ughhhhh it makes me feel it makes me aliveeeeeeee. that's why. it's hard to explain, but i can draw the association.
visuals/creativity/novelty
and also images-wise i love fantasy, i love otherworlds, i love entirely new constructed creative worlds with great Novelty. all the images were so new, the film was just very Visually stimulating. i was a little disappointed that they didnt' play around with the Alien idea more -- cuz they were essentially humanoid people that had very human traits inside and out. it was very different coming off a film like District 9 which i just saw on a plane -- which TOTALLY fucks aroudn with your idea of human/alien. THAT was intellectully/emotionally extremeeeeely stimulating in that sense. so much so that it was disturbing.
but still that doesn't take away from the visual beauty and stimulation of this film. ughh. i'm gonna set it as a wallpaper.
visuals/cinematography/presentation
also the way it was filmed/SHOWN. the cinematography, was very jap/anime-film inspired i feel. like it was the Final Fantasy-esque alien world, and there are those huge panning scenes where its basically ART SHOWCASE for the creative designers. like a huge zoom-out perspective/scene where you see everything, adn there's the familiar strange cool helicopter/technology-thing at the side. that is SO final fantasy, and SO hayao miyazaki. i could be wrong about the srouce but it was cool that they paid homage to this kinda film -- this wholeTYPE of fantasy film/imagery is omething you don't see as often in western film.
the MESSAGE
and lastly the message is obviously for me something i really papreciate. all this while in my life i've had these ideas of pantheism or somethingineverything or everythingineverything and everythignisconnected and LIFE and NATURE and youarepartoftheworld and ai was so glad that message was put into film again. and the whole idea tht humans have destroyed their god and blala i juts can identify with it. i'm not as naive/idealistic about it as i was some years ago (ie we should go back to those times!) i see the good in both now, but it's just nice seeing THIS side of things represented.
wrt to the quality of the film though of course it's kinda like.. rehash of themes in other films. it reminded me a lot of Princess Mononoke and Pocahontas etc. so yeah it's not the most novel thing. but i mean.. it's a good message. i've no qualms about it being done up again.
i swear though, Cameron watched Miyazaki films. earth-ey theme? Princess Mononoke. the whole floating mountains thing? very cool, love it, but def inspired by Castle in the Sky!
anyway i loved the film. it cld've been even MORE amazing in a "WTF HOW DID THEY THINK OF THAT THAT IS GENIUS" way. but beyond that it hits a very solid A for me with A pluses in images, fantasy, soundtrack.. and that's good enoguh for me.
end.
okay so this turned out to be like amovie review but i was just trying to type more calmly instead of gushing like OMGFG OI THAT PART WAS SOOOOO FKING GOOD cuz ishould learn to be more calm. lol. so it turned out like a movie review. i get too affected by art. or not TOO. but. yeah. i like it though. it's.. good. i think.
on a lighter note. the most disturbing part of Avatar was DEFINITELY the alien sex part. i was like wow (1) they're blue aliens (2) my dad and sis are next to me. umumumum awkward.
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