Story. Pacing. Action. All of these things we’ve seen before. Every great action movie has them. But with
Avatar, we’re seeing them all through a new lens. A computer-generated world that is photoreal. Photoreal not in that we have seen it before, but in that we believe it could exist. The quality of the Na’vi is so detailed and natural that when placed next to humans, we can believe that if these creatures were real, that is exactly how they would look to the naked eye. As visual effects go, this is an achievement like no other. No uncanny valley issues here. The Na’vi, for all we know, are very real.
