I wonder as I wander, or the other way round?

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2009)

I would like to ask a question: is there someone in the audience who witnessed the first coming of 3D in the sixties? I would really like to read some reactions from adults back then.
(Not just for the sake of comparisons, technological or others. I am not even sure if it is cultural the same way, cultural differences aside.)
It surely is sweeping.
It is mind-numbing in a way, or more ways if you will.
Yet the audience reacted in a strange way, I mean the audience from Athens, Greece, where I saw the film, 3D and all, and this is what I would like to share, since everybody will make his own experience on watching the film, and then will react to the reviews.
So, this is it: let's say that the film risks to get short-circuited into an allegory of a choice between the "real" and a virtual reality, with the hero switching between "bodies", like in a game, as some detractors would probably say.
My question was: when the point comes, for it was galloping towards us in the climax, will the hero choose his invalid body and thus validate his existence as a hero, or regress to the virtual realm and as such deliver us to the deadlock of a fantasy world?
Although this remains unresolved in a way at the end, even titillating us with the promise of a sequel, and here I go back to the bizarre reaction from the audience, are we sure we want to go to the end of our fantasy world? It surely is entertaining, but is it all the way?
When Neytiri saves Jake Sully from suffocation, and they, then, just before the end, meet for the first time "as they really are", the audience burst out laughing, as if this was gruesome and incongruous for the sake of the love story. As if everything else in the story could be awesome, or agenda-ridden, but not what happens between a male and a female, even though, well, they are of a different species.
It reminded me of a TV ad that appeared some years now - girl wanders in the woods, encounters a frog, kisses frog, frog becomes prince, prince looks somewhat dubiously girl, kisses girl, girl becomes beer, he drinks beer. You guessed it, the ad was for a beer.
So, the question I would like to pose is: what does a beer taste like on Pandora, is the gist of the film?
Please tell me.
Open my eyes.