Avatar (DVD + Blu-ray) [2017]

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All in all, it’s a great package, but you have to question how many copies of a movie like Avatar you want in your collection. They also offer up some keen directionality, where appropriate: the gunships making their natural transition across your living room.

Now if we are to believe him, then there surely isn’t any room to accommodate a further 16 minutes of re-mastered Deleted Footage (each minute apparently cost a million Dollars to render and integrate), as is present on the Extended Cut. Both Weaver and Joel Moore had Avatar counterparts as well (the vessels used to integrate with the Na’vi) but I have to say that some of the best performances – I’m looking at you Zoe – came from the Na’vi CG creatures. A lot of classic films (think Lawrence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind) were split in two with an Intermission. Many CG animators – like Pixar – took note of this theory, particularly after the initial, negative response of some of their test animations (check out the extra on the Toy Story release – ‘Tin Toy’ – whose ‘realistic’ baby looked just plain creepy).Across the movie we get more background into what happened to the school that Sigourney Weaver’s doctor set up, and a revelation about Neytiri’s personal involvement in the slaughter. this is my interior graphic designer speaking—the font connotes a superficial attempt to appear profound.

For the week that ended on June 24th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment and 20th Century Studios' Avatar: The Way of Water unsurprisingly topped both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts in its debut week. But when the more elaborate Blu-ray special edition of Avatar comes out later this year (and when the 3D version appears on the format a couple years from now), I hope Cameron splits the film onto two BD-50 discs. It’s a blunt and grating approach to passing social commentary on the US and its ‘ Team America’-style approach to policing the world, and, this somewhat pretentious preaching, coupled with the Braveheart-styled clichéd dialogue and ‘rousing’ speeches did not work on any level. However, the cheap shot at the US’s warmongering tactics is thinly veiled, and ultimately this is a production that will never stand up alongside the likes of Cameron’s Aliens or Terminator 2, except in one respect: effects. There’s also a removed subplot where she is revealed to be feeding information back to the Colonel as well.Some of the footage originally presented as a flashback in the theatrical cut is arranged linearly here. Whether or not you like it is another thing, but at least you will have the option to look at it all. DTS-HD MA lossless mix doesn’t so much dazzle you with surround sound gimmickry as it does with just how completely natural it sounds.

All in all I know fans will want to trawl through it all, but you’d be better off skipping and watching the second half, and – even then – be prepared for the fact that there’s nothing amazing here, just a few watchable extra moments. All of the individual Featurettes run at between about 5 and 10 minutes in length, the longer ones going into enough detail to make them worth checking out. It’s particularly interesting to see how they used colours and motifs in nature to create the alien life, and of course a great deal of time is spent looking at the Na’vi themselves. But for anyone out there during the format war who claimed that a studio would never need all the added room a BD-50 disc can provide, here’s the proof you were incorrect.The journey of Jake Sully, portrayed with depth and sincerity by Sam Worthington, is both exhilarating and poignant. so to speak) and just stays there, a certain amount of sensory overload kicks in and all that's left is the running time. Cameron says the film’s basis is in his childhood ideas, the fact that they had to wait for technology to be at a level where the film was capable of being shot, and explains the massive undertaking that it was, looking at the concept art, the script variations, the effects progressions and the motion capture work.