Comments on: avatar http://sciblogs.co.nz/bioblog/2010/01/29/avatar/ Biology, science education, general science Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:23:00 +1200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Darcy Cowan http://sciblogs.co.nz/bioblog/2010/01/29/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Darcy Cowan Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:41:07 +0000 tag:sci.waikato.ac.nz,2010:/bioblog//3.1881#comment-54 Your pedantism is mild compared to my reaction after coming out of the film. Loved the cinematography, how could you not, but yep the whole unrealism of the Na'vi bugged me. For some reason the kissing scene really got under my skin. Not even all human cultures kiss (IIRC) but aliens do? Ideally I'd like to see an Avatar prequel explaining all the Mcguffins of the film, I suspect that wouldn't be of particularly wide appeal though. Your pedantism is mild compared to my reaction after coming out of the film.
Loved the cinematography, how could you not, but yep the whole unrealism of the Na’vi bugged me. For some reason the kissing scene really got under my skin. Not even all human cultures kiss (IIRC) but aliens do?

Ideally I’d like to see an Avatar prequel explaining all the Mcguffins of the film, I suspect that wouldn’t be of particularly wide appeal though.

]]> By: wainscotting http://sciblogs.co.nz/bioblog/2010/01/29/avatar/comment-page-1/#comment-53 wainscotting Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:03:34 +0000 tag:sci.waikato.ac.nz,2010:/bioblog//3.1881#comment-53 Yes, The Na'vi seemed a little conveniently humanesque, but you're always going to get that from Hollywood - the more the audience needs to sympathize with an alien race, the more human they look. They could have found ways of explaining it, but instead just relied on the miracle clause. Yes, The Na’vi seemed a little conveniently humanesque, but you’re always going to get that from Hollywood – the more the audience needs to sympathize with an alien race, the more human they look. They could have found ways of explaining it, but instead just relied on the miracle clause.

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