I saw Avatar on Christmas Eve. I now know that I was probably feverish and in the midst of contracting walking pneumonia when I saw it so my recollections are a bit hazy. I did geek out on the science aspects of the movie though. The creation of an entirely novel world must be exhilarating given today's CGI technology.
In many ways, the organisms of Pandora exhibit the kind of shared genetic ancestry that I have been thinking a lot about while working my way through Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale. Lots of blue organisms, organisms that light up, flighted reptilian thingys, animals breathing through their chests, predator/prey relationships, etc. Most of this fictitious biology seems well thought out. Somehow the Na'vi are bipedal humanoids that breath through their flattened noses, though. Somehow, a hexapedal blue cat woman that breathes through her chest would not be as cool, I guess
The physics of the movie seem a little less believable, however. What's up with the floating rock islands?
Sooo coolio
ReplyDeleteAvatar was the best movie in the world!!!!!! [Of course other than the Simpsons Movie :)] I think its really cool that you applied the Na'vi structures to real life. Did you know that thy also actually wrote out a Na'vi language and are in the process of making dictionaries for it? Kinda like Star Trek... By the way, did you see Avatar in Imax 3-D, regualr, or 3-D?
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