Cameron comes back big

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2009)

Wow. The immediate reaction every single viewer of this movie must have upon seeing it. This movie is a stunning visual masterpiece that you must see. I can't accurately describe what I saw a couple of hours ago, simply because words fail to describe this movie, but I'll try. Think back to a day when perhaps you wore your sunglasses for an extended period of time, or maybe ski goggles, and try to imagine what it was like when you finally took them off. Everything was clearer and looked somehow 'right' again, and you know that before while you had them on you thought that that was how everything was supposed to look, but now when you can suddenly see so much clearer, you are marvelled at how you could have once thought that. That is what seeing this movie is like. Seeing this movie is like taking off the sunglasses, you are completely amazed. All other movies pale in comparison. And usually I'm sceptical about 3D movies, not many have truly deserved or needed to be 3D. This movie deserves it. I almost felt that when I walked out of the theatre and took off the 3D glasses, everything around me seemed 'less real' and looked worse than the movie I had just seen. Other people have said it and I'll say it too, the plot isn't an original one. Advanced race meets primitive race and chaos ensues. It's been used a lot before, and the second half of the movie was very predictable. Despite that, this movie still gets a 10 from me. I found the life on the planet fascinating, all of the creatures and plants. How this world developed to be so big, and although most of the creatures were regular animals (dogs, horses) with slight tweaks (note: when I say slight, that does not apply to appearance, they look very different - very cool!), they were still very stunning to see because of the detail that each and every creature had. The Navi especially, their faces, slight twitches, everything was there, it was incredible. The creative minds that put this all together are unparallelled. I wonder at how this group of people sat down and actually created this, it's mind boggling. Excellent work James Cameron, excellent work.