Wow, Great in 3-D or 2-D.

Rating: 9/10 (20 December 2009)

Saw it in 3-D on Friday and went back again on Saturday to see it in 2-D. Both work, but 3-D is REALLY intense (even though the glasses are highly annoying.) Can't wait to get the DVD to see the "How it was made vignettes." So, go see it, and have fun!
Now, for the spoiler part. Read no further if you haven't see the movie and don't want to know how it ends.
Just curious... did anyone else think of it as a cross between Matrix (the linking in) and the book Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler (the connection between the people and the planet)?
The standard formula aspect of the movie didn't bother me. It all held together, and was crafted beautifully. But I didn't think it had a happy ending. Pandora is doomed. There is no way that the "aliens" (i.e. earthlings) would go away from that world of wealth with their tails tucked between their legs, never to return again. They will come back armed to destroy, or with missionaries to convert, or with diseases to plague. Or maybe all the technology they left behind (guns, machines, ...) will infiltrate into the Pandora way of life and the Na'vi will destroy themselves from within. The ending of this movie was analogous to the Native Americans winning a battle ... the real ending was that they lost the war and everything they had with it.
But that will all be in the sequel.