Story is not very original, dull even, lots of clichés. True story, the person sitting next to me in the cinema fell asleep, well I almost did too. I really didn’t get all the hype around it. After re-watching it, some scenes are nonetheless great.
3D was ok, but if I remember correctly mostly a window into the world and not many scenes where the elements jump out of the screen into the our side of the room.
Released around the same time, A Christmas Carol was a great film in that regard - spectacular 3D experience.
Edit: The font looks great, really liked the article.
Yeah, I think it was mostly the 3D hype (and great marketing) that made Avatar a success. The movie itself is more or less just the sci-fi version of Pocahontas.
When Films&Stuff on Youtube did a 10-years-later video on Avatar [1], they said that it was not just about "the 3D hype". It was that Avatar was the first (and maybe still only) movie to use 3D effectively because they emphasized Positive Space (creating depth through 3D to strengthen immersion) over Negative Space (the popping-out-of-the-screen effect that's more commonly used because it's way more noticeable, but also gets old fast because it's fundamentally a gimmick).
I too have quickly grown tired of 3D movies and actively avoided them for the last 10 years, but when Avatar 2 comes out, I will definitely see it in 3D.
3D was ok, but if I remember correctly mostly a window into the world and not many scenes where the elements jump out of the screen into the our side of the room.
Released around the same time, A Christmas Carol was a great film in that regard - spectacular 3D experience.
Edit: The font looks great, really liked the article.