Finally made it to a showing this afternoon---cheated a bit and watched it, blurrily, on a bootleg site yesterday and knew I just had to see it BIG and IN FOCUS.
Storyline held up to a second viewing. Yes, it's clearly been done many, many times before, "Dances With Wolves" being the obvious example, but . . . it's a
timeless and
resonant storyline. And this is a nice take on it, with some fresh layers and twists.
Saw it in regular ol' 2D after a bit of online research. I wear bifocals and have red-green color vision deficencies, and wasn't sure 3D would work for me. Didn't matter, movie's awe-inspiring in 2D, and although you can tell which bits were meant to blow you away in 3D, they still blow you away in 2D. Literally cannot tell, in any frame, where CGI stops and live action begins. Seamless, and the CGI world of Pandora, where the story takes place, is insanely detailed, hyper-realistic, and utterly alien.
Didn't even notice how long the movie was until I checked my watch on the way out. Sucked me into its world that completely.
Next weekend I'm probably going to give the 3D version a shot, just to see if it WILL work for me. Some of those aerial scenes are going to be more than worth the price of admission if it works.
~Boar
My kids and I are waiting for the real Avatar movie to come out in 2010 that has M. Night Shyamalan as its director
I saw the trailer for that recently. Can't wait either, and I don't even
have kids. :blush:
~Boar