Avatar = Amazing!!

Theatre, theatre, theatre!!!!!  Wow.  This movie was so visually amazing that I'm going back to see it in theatres while I still can.  Please don't even waste your time asking if I saw in 3-D or not. . . why would anyone go see that movie not in 3-D when it's offered??  3-D.  Always 3-D.  I know that it cost an exorbitant amount of money to make this movie (even more than the Waterworld flop), but great googily-moogily, it was worth it!  Now, I don't generally rave about movies. . . yes I get obsessed with certain things occasionally and talk incessantly about them, but this isn't one of those situations.  I'm not obsessed with the movie, I'm just that impressed. 

 

Every single creature in the world that Cameron created was obviously thought through in its entirety.  At a certain point in the beginning of the movie, the main character is being chased by pantheresque creatures.  The movie showed them close-up and slowly to give you the opportunity to see the tiny details given to the animal.  And everything was like that.  From the trees to the flying pinwheel-type things.  The other part that amazed me was the colors.  There were such brilliant and beautiful colors throughout the world of Pandora.  The first scene with the flying dragon things, I couldn't even take notice of the scenery they flew by because I was so captivated by the colors of the dragony creatures.  My basic point here is that they did such an amazing job creating this world, I think everyone should go see their technological achievement. 

 

Now that I've gone off a bit on the visual stimuli, I can now tell you that the storyline was also pretty interesting.  Now, I get that this comment doesn't seem nearly as exhuberant as my description of the technological aspects, and I don't mean to downplay it.  It really was an interesting storyline, it's just that the visuals leave such an impression that everything else seems secondary, although in this case secondary is not a bad place to be either.  At a certain point you realize that something has to happen to merge the aspects of the main character and you can't really see how that can happen, until they attempt the feat on another character first.  Then you think "oh, so that's how they're going to do that." 

 

I don't want to give too much away, so I'll leave it at that.  Go.  See this movie.  In the theatre, in 3-D.  I promise you it will be worth it.  I want to hope that even non-sci-fi fans will like it, if they can appreciate what this movie has to offer beyond its genre.