Finally, Someone Giving Credit...

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2009)

I suppose what you expect from a movie-going experience has a lot to do with what you eventually get out of it. This holiday season, I suppose I wanted to feel like a child again. In that sense, Avatar delivered. Not since Jurassic Park, have I been so mesmerized by the big screen. Of course, the intellectual bar was set low, both in my expectations and in the spectacular product. However, call me silly, but when I want to be intellectually stimulated I tend to pick up a book. When I want to connect with my spiritual, environmental and existential angst, I tend to go for a walk in the woods. Movies can inspire deep thoughts, of course, but movies can also have a very simple elegance when we see beauty in what hasn't been seen before. While the script is boilerplate, Pandora is like no place you've ever dreamed of. It is a vision worth seeing.