http://kibblemania.com/2010/02/02/the-ridiculous-avatar-situation/ The home of a disenfranchised geek with a virtual pedestal Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://kibblemania.com/2010/02/02/the-ridiculous-avatar-situation/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Captain Kibble Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:11:33 +0000 http://kibblemania.com/?p=455#comment-43 <p>District 9 is just in a different league to Avatar. It is superior in nearly every way. I'd say it loses out in the special effects area purely because the scope of what Avatar did is much larger. However in District 9 the effects serve the plot, not the other way around.</p> District 9 is just in a different league to Avatar. It is superior in nearly every way. I’d say it loses out in the special effects area purely because the scope of what Avatar did is much larger. However in District 9 the effects serve the plot, not the other way around.

]]> http://kibblemania.com/2010/02/02/the-ridiculous-avatar-situation/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Daveb Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:36:11 +0000 http://kibblemania.com/?p=455#comment-42 I watched District 9 again on BluRay the other evening - I noticed more this time how actually the story isn't a million miles away from Avatar, about a human gradually coming to sympathise with aliens and then become one.  Difference was it was FAR better acted and directed, had much more character development and journey, and IMHO for the $30m budget the special effects were possibly more impressive than Avatar - virtually seamless CG creatures (and far more complex in design) interacting with the actual real world, whereas Avatar is basically a motion-captured Pixar movie for most of its length.  And the power armour design is better too! I watched District 9 again on BluRay the other evening – I noticed more this time how actually the story isn’t a million miles away from Avatar, about a human gradually coming to sympathise with aliens and then become one.  Difference was it was FAR better acted and directed, had much more character development and journey, and IMHO for the $30m budget the special effects were possibly more impressive than Avatar – virtually seamless CG creatures (and far more complex in design) interacting with the actual real world, whereas Avatar is basically a motion-captured Pixar movie for most of its length.  And the power armour design is better too!

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