For a film ostensibly about acceptance and tolerance, Avatar lacked diversity in a pretty big way. While the strong female characters in Avatar were nice, the movie didn’t make any huge leaps in overcoming Hollywood’s habitual lack of minorities in significant roles. There’s always a lot going on, but the storylines intersect in overly simple, predictable ways. The storytelling in the movie was equally weak, with no subtlety whatsoever. There’s no real depth to the dialogue in Avatar– everyone says what they mean and what they think in the simplest way possible. Though you might need some other stuff to make a pretty film into a good film.

How could the journey between Earth and Pandora be possible? How could those mountains float? How could evolutionary processes produce organisms remotely similar to Earth’s? Let alone a society of intelligent two-leggers in a land of trees that are for the most part just a black light acid-trip version of ours.īut hey, oh yeah, it’s a movie! And an action movie, at that! You don’t need even vaguely accurate science. I knew that I’d spend almost the whole movie being annoyed by any number of logically improbable things. Avatar does have its high points, but I’ll admit that I went in as a skeptic.

For a sci-fi/action movie, Avatar gives female characters like Chacon more screen time than most other films in the genre.

Her skin shines too: she’s glistening with sweat and sexiness in almost every scene. Rodriguez shines in her role as military helicopter pilot Trudy Chacon. Michelle Rodriguez provides at least one part of Avatar that’s effortless to love. The world is full of pulsing lights, beautiful greens and blues (the Na’vi color palette) and a menagerie of fantastical animals, all of which are intimately connected. The Na’vi are able to interact directly with their surroundings: the plants glow with bioluminescence in their presence, lighting their way at night and creating fiberoptic light shows. Not to mention its occupants the Na’vi, a race of super tall, super skinny, super strong cat-people. Not having to think during the film gives you more time to appreciate the beautiful visual detail of Pandora’s environment. In a way, the weak script is kind of a benefit.

But you really can ignore all of Avatar‘s faults-the movie just that pretty. You’ll also have to ignore science, because Avatar pushes the laws of physics, evolution and just about everything else out of mind. James Cameron’s Avatar is such a visually beautiful film that if you want to like it, you’ll be able to ignore the badly written script and the overly predictable plot. Either way, you’ll probably get what you want. You can walk into the theatre to see Avatar in two ways: You’ll either go in wanting to like it or wanting to hate it. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.

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