Avatar

Went and saw Avatar last week in 3d IMAX and I have to say that I was just blown away. Sure the story is only ok, but it was good enough for me. What was so amazing about the movie to me was that it really transported you to another world. The feeling that I got while watching it was the same as when I watched Lord of the Rings, read Harry Potter, or even when I played WoW. It's the details of the world that are the amazing part that bring it to life. In each of those three examples it felt like I was experiencing a part of that world, not where everything I saw was it, like in most action movies where the events of the movie are basically it, nothing happens beyond the story itself. And that I think was what made Avatar so great for me. The world in the movie existed before the movie started and it will continue after the movie ended, there is more story than just the story that was told. I guess that would be where a critic would say, "Well show me the rest of the story." But you just simply can't, it's the subtility that makes the movie and the world what it is. If you jammed a bunch of story and plot into the movie then you'd lose the wonder of what was really going on.

I don't know maybe it's just me, but the movie worked, it was fun and I really enjoyed watching it, I'd say it was the shortest three hours I have ever sat through. Go see it.

Oh and only another month until Lost is back