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Am I a film snob or simply more discerning than I used to be?
I loved the creativity of this film, the plant life and animals. The colours and the beautiful serenity of living in tune with the planet. Peace.
I am sure in 3D it would have been a delight to watch. Splendid in fact. However, the film itself did not really get deep inside.
All the messages were there I know but it was all superficial to me. It was a story of the invasion of territory told in many a Western. There was evil and obsession and destruction in the name of greed. There was mindlessness in ambition. There was personal rage. There was bad comes good in the name of love. There was community spirit and in desperation people trying to defend by having to go into battle. And how this was used as an excuse to go in even more heavy-handed - the good Ol's American way. Cause havoc and then use that as the excuse! Vietnam, Middle East, etc.
Uhmmm I expect there was more that I've already forgotten. But to be honest it's all be done before.
There was The Matrix in it too - with the One who was the savour, the high-tech baddie battle machine was eve the same as the ones used by the goodies in the Matrix. There was the one who just forgot the overall cause and started to make it personl. There was the idea of going from body experience to mind experience - the virtual world and the question about which in the end is real.
Hmmmmmm - I wasn't overly taken tiwh it at all and yet sat and watched all the way through and somehow enjoyed the escapism.

It did remind me of some of the amazing beautifully imaginative "lands" in Secndlife. And for a couple of days I have had a hankering to go back. I think it may have contributed to my sense of something missing. Or maybe something is awry and hence the desire to return to Secondlife was calling. Then again thinking back to it there was so much that now leaves e feeling sad. Sd that I would get muddled up in the sex kerfuffles. From the moent I arrived allowing myself to be taken by a somebody who probably gets kicks out of grabbing virgin Secondlifers.
And then endlessly getting attached to veritale strangers, all the intensity of the getting to know a probable lie. And then such agony with the detachment. And then delving deeper into sexual antics. That makes it sound all light hearted. Sexual behavour that is dark and negative and destructive. It is dangerous somehow to get involved in such things, even with a man who was not violent in anyway. It could just have easily been violent. He was controlling in a charming way. But nonetheless it tapped into something deeper within me. I am not sure about him and I don't need to try and delve into his mind. That caused me even more agony and there was no way in. Just as disturbed as me.
I am sad that I could involve myself like that and not simply enjoy the lightness of creativity and encoutnering people without taing it all so seriously. My problem was the hours and hours that I invested into Secondlife and how it took over real life. Every waking hour and even then hours when I needed to be sleeping. Sometimes awake all night and day without sleep. What a crazy world it became.
And in the end quite boring. The same old same old and the joys all disappearing being replaced with agony. Phew what a journey. Briefly exciting and exhilirating but shore lived really. Wow it's goo to remember the bad times and the end result.
What a kerfuffle!!

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Empires - description
Plot
When his twin brother is killed, disabled ex-Marine Jake Sully is recruited to aid a mining expedition on the distant jungle moon of Pandora as only his DNA will bond with the alien hybrid body, known as an Avatar, that allows humans to breathe the toxic air. With orders to infiltrate the Na’vi, Jake finds himself falling in love with native girl, Neytiri, and complications soon ensue…

Cast Sam Worthington Zoe Saldana Sigourney Weaver Lola Herrera Stephen Lang Michelle Rodriguez Matt Gerald Giovanni Ribisi

Directors James Cameron

Screenwriters James Cameron Bliss XX