From no expectation to hugely impressed

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2009)

I knew that James Cameron was making a new movie. I knew it had blue people in it. I knew it was going to be at the IMAX in 3D. This much was as much as I wanted to know about it. I went to see it, and I absolutely loved this movie! I've never written a comment on IMDb before, I barely rate movies I see. This movie I felt obliged to, the action and scenery shots were beautiful with some frames from this movie being true masterpieces.
The story was fine, a classic good versus evil with no pretensions or straining, it was pitched at the viewer as an engagement with the viewer, like the main character becoming comfortable and acquainted with the natives.
This movie held me right until the end, and I have since seen it another two times - in Real3D which on a nice Odeon DIGITAL screen is pretty much as engaging as the IMAX 3D, just a slightly different aspect ratio.
This is the only movie I can remember seeing 3 times in 4 days at the cinema and didn't feel at any moment that I was less than thrilled to be seeing every scene again :)