Would You If You Could?
 

I think this is something that could bring around some discussion, though this is something where the answer is your own opinion =^-^= so...

If you could go back to the time when you first saw Avatar (or even a little back if it was a progression to the first viewing, for example I'd go back a week before I first saw it) and live the whole thing again would you?

If so would you want to change anything? Or leave it the way it all happened? If you would want to change something, what would it be?

Or would you not want to go back then and not live it all again?

Tell us your answers and why! =^-^=

Me personally (started a new post so it wouldn't fill up original question post) I would go back a week when i first first heard about Avatar, and only saw the poster for it, looked up a picture of Neytiri (whom I did not know at the time because I promised myself I wouldn't research anything on the movie so the whole experience would be a surprise, because I felt in my heart this movie would be special). How her face filled my dreams, my whole thought process, I was so curious about the movie I sometimes wouldn't sleep because I dreamed different scenarios that would play out with her, or my imaginary far away lands... I even failed my last test for the class I was taking at my automotive school because I couldn't concentrate because I was seeing the movie that night.

All in all I would give anything to go back to that first moment I saw the poster for Avatar, and I would live everything over again, and I wouldn't change a thing... All the heartaches, sleepless nights, the tears shed... I'd live it all again without a second thought. It lead me to have one of the greatest experiences of my life

Your answer may as well be my own :D

I most definitely would. As it happens I have just 5 minutes ago finished watching Avatar, now here I am on this forum again thinking about all it has done for me. I would not change ANYTHING about my first viewing, the things I felt.

My soul was garbage back then, if I met a person today like the guy I was back then, I'd want to slap him :P I'm sure I speak for many here when I say Avatar was the wake up I needed, I could not have asked any more from it. The story and characters and most importantly the messages behind it. Without doubt the most positive thing that has happened in my life :)

Damn I love you all <3

Honestly I dont remember who I was before then... kinda sad maybe? Maybe not :P

I would not go back in time to the first time I watched Avatar, because back then I didn't know anything about the language and all the background details on the Na'vi I read on Pandorapedia and so on... plus I would have to draw all my Avatar fanart (again), including my comic, which was quite some work to do. ^^

But what about the experience in doing so?

I would not change a thing. It validated, from a corner of humanity that I thought would always "POO-POO" the ways that many indigenous peoples from all over this planet believe as either "out of touch with reality" or perhaps "Soft core Satanic". When I saw the movie, I thought that "SOME of these people are FINALLY GETTING IT", and it made me happy that SOME people COULD "Be taught to SEE". NOW, hopefully, THEY will teach others, before it is far too late.
Niri Te

^ I can completely understand that Unil.


I really like this thread, great Idea for putting it forward Stanley.

I personally would love to have a deja-vu and relive the exhileration and wonder in the week prior to watching Avatar and watching the trailers over and over, just to feel the crazy rush and eye opening wonder of it all. The only thing I would change would be to try to go in there and watch the movie without looking up wikipedia and experiance everything fresh. :D

I agree with Niri Te, honestly I had no hope or faith for humanity before the movie, then after seeing the movie, then hearing about everyone's experiences with it, i had hope =^_^=

This is a particularly thorny question for me. If only to experience the first-time feels, I most definitely would. PAD and all. My first and second times seeing Avatar were simply amazing, I'd love to experience that again so I could really remember it. At the time I didn't really know how much it would impact me. However, if I would have to relive the years since then, maybe not. I'm not saying I'm positive I wouldn't, but some of the other stuff that's happened in my life since then has made me glad that it's in the past. Reliving two and a half years of living with my parents, high school, going to work, and in general hating everything about my life would not be fun.

I totally understand you there... along with some of the most eye opening greatest times of my life were equally some of the hardest and most painful... but I'd live through it again to see Avatar for the first time and experience everything I did again <3

I would definitely go back to the 1st time again BUT with a few minor changes (maybe major). When I first experienced Avatar, it was the dvd version on a small 32" old-tech flattie tv that weighed almost 100 lbs! I felt what everyone else felt but didn't experience Avatar like it should've been until it came out in theaters the 2nd time around. I eventually ended up getting a 50" plasma 3D tv just for this movie. So basically I'd hold off watching it till I had the proper equipment to experience it. But then going back to that time would be when I had no interest in big tv's, 3D, etc and knew nothing about em. Avatar changed my life and everything around it.

No.
It's a movie and I watched, I don't think anything would need to be changed to make the experience different.

To be honest... I don't think I would go back. Such a wealth of knowledge I gained after seeing the movie. Iron_Jones pretty much answered it for me too.

Cheers -- Tey'Kan ;)

But you would still pretty much gain it after watching it again for the 1st time......

If I could go back and experience it again for the first time, I would...but then I would want to jump straight back to the present day.

The fantastic thing about seeing Avatar for the first time is that you're truly in Jake's shoes - he's seeing Pandora for the first time as well, and the awe of discovery and exploration is completely fresh. That's what I would want to re-experience, and that's what I look forward to the most regarding the sequel (provided there will indeed be new environments).

What I wouldn't want to do is re-face the question "Where do I go from here?" that I asked myself in the initial shake-up. Who knows if the journey from there 'til now would be the same for me? It hasn't been a smooth one, but I've gained many valuable experiences, lessons, and friendships nonetheless (and a significant amount of those things have come through this site).

Yes, I would go back, although I wouldn't change anything.

I went to watch Avatar with no knowledge of it or its content apart from vague media hints about an unparalleled technical achievement. My word but did I ever get a shock... a cinematographic experience that reawakened a part of myself that I had thought modern society had killed, buried and covered with a generic concrete monstrosity. I came out of the theatre having laughed, cried and Seen.

But I would also go back for other, more selfish and less enlightened reasons. Considering the events that have taken place since that day? I would go back to before their advent. Happily. These last couple of years have seen the deaths of at least one dear friend (who died far too early and left a young husband and two young boys) as well as family members as well as (seemingly) my last hope of achieving my dream career after 12 years of striving for it.

It isn't a healthy thing to say, but if I could return to that day in a time machine and maybe just stay there for a while.... I would like that. :shy:

i would have stayed and watched it instead of going with my dad to the restroom:P

I agree, I mean if we had to relive everything from our first viewing of Avatar to now, some of us would be looking at going back to the end of 2009 and then getting through almost 3 years. That could mean redoing assignments, projects, and work as well as going through any ups and downs again. I'd prefer a return trip rather than a one way trip back in time.

I hope that too, especially if we see underwater environments and such in the next movie. I think living the experience through Jake in the first film and being able to relate to him in a way as he explores Pandora and meet the Omaticaya is what helped to give Avatar such an impact on us.

Sounds like dear old dad needs to be catheterized when he goes out in public. THAT way, HE doesn't miss half of a movie either,

Exactly, on both of those things. I wouldn't want to go back to all those school assignments either. :stare:

I can see what you're saying with the whole, 'experience then jump back thing'. I say I'd live it all again to show how much it means to me and what i'm willing to go through to go through it all again =^-^= everyone has awesome answers!

I wouldn't because I've gained so much as a result of it that I don't want to lose :). Also, I was in a bad situation with myself at the time and something of an emotional mess even without Avatar, which brought all that to the front.

i definitely would go back and i don't think i would change anything. the feeling i had after walking out of the cinema after seeing it for the first time was something incredible

Are you ****ed?

lolwut

If I could go back in time and do it all over again, I would see Avatar for the first time in a different theater. The first time I saw Avatar, it was from a seat with a partially obstructed view. That was the last time I went to that theater and from then on I went to a..... I'd like to say much nicer, but in truth I'll say a slightly nicer theater that isn't as heavily traffic'd and charge a full dollar less for 3d tickets.

When I have thought about this, it's usually because I wished I could go back and decide to do something else that day. I know I would've eventually ended up seeing it though, so there's no point in thinking that way when wishing it never happened. Most of the time, I wouldn't change anything about it, so as a final answer, "no, I would not change anything" :) Theater was good, liked everything I ate that day, and I like the way things are now.

no he just drank a large soda before he went into the theater , my dad is fairly young

Yeah, this is very true... I always planned to see it at some point, the day wouldn't have mattered so much. Honestly, the second time was more powerful emotionally, I think, as I was needing it before seeing it, which wasn't true for the first :P

I just kept hearing all the hipster jerks at school whine about it, and then alternatively, everyone else going nuts over it, so it was pretty irresistible to me. That said, I didn't see it until late January, so I'd have probably missed it if it hadn't run for so long and I'd waited until another day.

Given the chance, I'd go back to 2009 and forcibly drag my younger butt to the theater so that I wouldn't have to see it for the first time on a 22" TV in my bedroom :D

I would have went to see it in the theaters, still kicking myself for not doing it all this time later. Other than that I am glad I did watch it and got to know my fav. movie of all time.

i'm sure they will bring it back to cinemas (maybe IMAX) in the future so you can get the chance to experience it on the big screen :)

Speaking of which Tm20, they have Avatar in the IMAX right now. :D
IMAX Sydney | Avatar 3D

Shame that I don't have the funds to see it at the moment...

If they can screen Avatar again in the IMAX then I'm sure other cinemas around the world might screen it again in the near future. We just need to keep our eyes open for any news.

I do about anything to have the incredible emotional experience that was my fist viewing. It was as if I had awoken after years of sleep. I fear that I have slowly fallen back into that less desirable state.

How to get it back I wonder...