avatar review

i guess you could say that i rarely go to the theater these days. we use to go a lot. now that baby is in the picture a lot has been largely reduced. do i miss the sticky floors, squeaky seats, obnoxious kids sitting behind us, smell of greasy day old popcorn? not at all. but i do miss seeing great movies on a big screen. so we finally buckled up and went to avatar. avatar in 3d that is. i don't think you should see this movie any other way. it was amazing.

usually i go through and say what i liked about the movie and then what i didn't like. but to be honest there was only one thing i didn't like about this movie. that i didn't see it sooner.

so let's just get down to the things that stood out...

i love it when a new world is created (lord of the rings, harry potter, narnia etc). sometimes ideas seem to be repeated a lot (dragons, magic, etc). this was totally out of left field. something we'd never seen before. it was really neat to be introduced literally to a whole new world. and it was a pretty cool one too.

the animation was fantastic. looking into the faces of the avatars and the na'vi wasn't some cheesy representation of digital effects. it's amazing how far they've come. impressive.

neytiri (the girl na'vi) was my favorite character. you could probably make a good argument that i feel this way because i am a girl. and i'll even help you out. if i lived on pandora and was a na'vi, i'd want to be just like neytiri. smart, adventurous, brave, strong, passionate, loving. i love her, she's awesome.

it was interesting how the avatars went brain dead if their human wasn't in the machine. that gave a cool element to the idea of going into this world. reminded me of the matrix, but way cooler in my opinion. the avatars were actual physical beings ~ in the matrix they were digital.

pandora was amazing (besides the viperwolves). i loved how everything went neon at night. i loved the floating mountains. i loved the flying lizards. i loved that they connected with the animals (physically and mentally). i just love pandora.

i hear that cameron's caught the 3d bug. he's coming out with an extended version of avatar in 3d. can you get anymore extended than 3 hours? AND he's decided to come out with a 3d version of titanic. but seriously, who wants to watch fifteen hundred people die painfully and horribly in 3d? i'm not sure i do.

so in ending my totally lop-sided review of avatar, my only comment is ~ i'll have to go see the hurt locker. it's got to be a good movie if it beat out avatar for best picture, right? we'll see...