Inevitable Post

If you've managed to take anything away from any previous posts I may have made, it is that I am a tremendous nerd. With each day I grow closer to becoming that stereotypical nerd - shunning any sense of uniqueness for the sake of entertaining myself. I have no problem with this, so tell your brain to shut up before you post about how "CONFORMITY ISN'T COOL!" because I'm short, dweeby, weak, into sci-fi, video games, good at math and science, and study way too much.
That being said, my reasons for making the late-night trek to see the midnight premiere of James Cameron's new movie, "Avatar", are understandable. It's my impression that many people were actually turned off by the trailer and shortened premise of the movie before it came out - it appeared to be a fairly standard sci-fi action flick, but the fact that it mostly starred giant blue people over humans seemed to be a bit off-putting. For nerds like me, though, who are familiar with Cameron's work (that doesn't include Titanic), the background is a total turn-on. When I went to see it, I hadn't done as much research on it as one would expect - at that point in time, I didn't know that Avatar was the most expensive movie ever made at that point, or that the technology behind the movie was as unique as it was.

So when I first laid eyes upon the Earth-like jungle-covered moon of Pandora, I was absolutely blown away. I really can't describe this movie visually in words. Perhaps the most accurate description would be that while most of the movie is entirely computer generated, it is all completely real. The blue-skinned Na'vi which inhabit the land are so detailed that you can easily tell them apart with the same level of ease with which you could distinguish any number of film actors. Every single organism on the planet is so detailed that you frequently have to remind yourself that the movie is indeed animated, and is not actually filmed footage of the strange creatures on some actual distant planet. It is completely unlike anything I've ever seen - and that's what makes the film worth viewing more than anything.

That being said, there have been frequent complaints about the simplicity and unoriginality of the script. I'm not going to deny that both are quite dull, but the visuals make up for this flaw. By far. And they aren't really that bad - just not quite as believable or inspired as the environment where the film takes place. Nobody goes to this movie to see a romance between giant blue warriors blossom, anyway.

In short, if you don't see this movie, I will fucking find you and kill you.