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Avatar – Cool Scenes

I’m not sure that the cool scenes in this movie have anything to do with the bible, except maybe in the principle that excellence in artistry is one way we glorify our Creator. But I have to comment on them because they are just that – cool, and I have to justify my comment that it is a great movie. The technology of the movie has been commented upon by critics ad infinitum and is the first thing that captures the viewer’s attention.

The creatures and their movement are very real and life-like. Especially entrancing are the flying dino-bird, Ikron (sp?), scenes. Very realistic and believable.

Consider also the scene in which the Colonel is in a robot suit fighting the huge, Panther-like predator which Neytyri rides. Again, the Colonel almost out-acts the technology. He’s a warrior, even when fighting virtually in the suit. Also, effective is the scene just prior, where Dragon, the Colonel’s flying fortress, explodes after Jake throws a missile into one of its helicopter blades. The explosion and the Colonel being flung back, then in his quick thinking, going into the ship to get into a robot suit, is realistic and very exciting.

Jake’s jumping off his dino-bird, Turuk, and onto the shuttle carrying the daisy-cutter bombs then back onto Turuk is cool. As I stated in the Jake post, his earlier landing amongst “the people” flying Turuk is like a 747 landing on a local airfield. Combined with the fact that he redeems himself in Neytyri’s and the peoples’ eyes and demonstrates some type of “divine” choice as the savior of the Pandorans, followed by the touching scene of reconciliation with and support from Tsu-Tey, combine to make it very effective.

The fall and explosion of the shuttle carrying the Daisy-Cutter bombs is awesome. The airfield full of futuristic aircraft is very realistic. The final battle contains one scene after another of great artistry and realism.

When Jake, the wheelchair-ridden cripple, first uses his Avatar body and can run, we are with him and his exhilarating use of legs, something he had not done since the loss of use of his human legs.

There are many more cool scenes, particularly of the wildlife on Pandora. In spite of the false nature-worshipping religion promoted in the movie, it is very well worth watching for the cool scenes, action, interplay of conflicting loyalties, & multiple themes about humans’ understanding of the meaning of what they do.