I got me up way too early the day after Christmas, all worked up about going to see Avatar.  My son has been harping at me for a couple months saying this is THE movie to go see at the cinema for the decade.  So I finally watched some trailers.  Wow, this IS gonna be good!   I knew it would be immersive beyond anything CG before it.  Why?  Cause in the trailers, you just can't separate the actor from the avatar.  THAT kind of "motion tracking" and interpretation is new.   Meaning the kind that works!    NO film I've ever seen has done such a perfect job of this as I saw in the slew of trailers.  OK, so I was up too early, took a nap.  Got up just in time to catch the first matinee.  Got ready, ran out the door, buzzed over to the cinema, got me ticket, bag of popcorn, box of raisinettes and a Coca Cola and sat exactly in the theater where I wanted (2D screening for me).  Watched the last 2 minutes of the previews and then started AVATAR.    From beginning to end credits, I LOVED IT!   While the story was predictable, it is quite workable with great individualization the characters give it.  I thoroughly enjoyed it, WILL go see it again, and WILL buy the DVD.  THIS may well be the film that has me buy into BluRay.  I'll get a decent BluRay drive for the PC first though. :)

The flying machinery Jim Cameron created was cool.  But the articulated contained twin rototors are impossible.  No visible means of power transmission TO the rotor heads.  Given, they looked really good, there just isn't any way of getting the power from the twin turboshafts to those heads.  That IS fixable, they just didn't do it.

The world of Pandora is absolutely believable, and totally wonderful!   I installed the game demo just to enjoy a bit of that.  

Say whatever you want about fanbois, simple classic predictable story lines, financial matters of the film, Cameron himself or any other trite elements surrounding  this film.  One thing you ain't getting is just how good the film IS, if you don't see it in some form at a cinema.  It was definitely worth far more than the paltry $4.00 I paid to see it!

My 66th Birthday PC Build (July 1, 2020) :  named BadMoonRYZEN!, W10Pro x64, Octal Core RYZEN7 X3700 4.05 GHz, 64GB DDR4 RAM, GeForce RTX 3060 - 12GB GDDR6, PP2014, PP 11, P12, PS-CS4 Extended & Vue 2024.

McG.