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Avatar (2009)

⭐ 7.8 | PG-13 | 162 minutes
DVD (1 discs ) Blu-ray (3 discs + 2 features ) Digital ✓
Genre: Science Fiction
Aspect Ratio: Wide
Sound: DD 5.1
Academy Awards: 3 Wins , 9 Nominations

Synopsis

After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na'vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he's supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na'vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron's complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na'vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D technology to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron's crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery.

Cast

Giovanni Ribisi
Sigourney Weaver
Zoe Saldana
Stephen Lang
Michelle Rodriguez
Joel David Moor
Sam Worthington

Director

James Cameron

Awards & Nominations

  • Oscar Nominee: Best Achievement in Sound Editing
  • Oscar Nominee: Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
  • Oscar Nominee: Best Director
  • Oscar Nominee: Best Film Editing
  • Oscar Nominee: Best Music, Original Music Score
  • Oscar Nominee: Best Picture
  • Oscar Winner: Best Achievement in Visual Effects
  • Oscar Winner: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
  • Oscar Winner: Best Cinematography

Keywords

Academy Award Winners Action Adventure Epics Science Fiction

Technical Specifications

Audio Languages

English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Subtitle Languages

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Special Features

  • Deleted/extended scenes
  • Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
  • Family Audio Track
  • Documentary: Capturing Avatar
  • 17 Featurettes
  • 3 Hour Collector's Extended Cut
  • Exclusive Alternate Opening On Earth
  • 45 Minutes Of Never Before Seen Deleted Scenes
  • Interactive Scene Deconstruction
  • The Art Of Avatar
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