Movie Review: Avatar
Last night Lauren and I attended the opening night of Avatar in 3D with our friends Johnny and Heather. I must admit, both our wives were hesitant to agree to watch this movie with us since it is an action/sc-fi movie. At least on the surface, going by just the previews on TV that is how they felt. After spending 30 minutes Thursday night showing Lauren the behind the scenes creation of the movie as well as several fantastic reviews she was convinced to come with me. I was so confident she would enjoy the movie I made a deal. If she did not enjoy Avatar she had a free pass to drag me along to see two movies of her choice. A bold proclamation in ordinary circumstances but I knew Avatar was going to be anything but ordinary.
Lately you can’t watch anything on TV or visit many websites without being blasted with some type of ad or trailer for the movie Avatar. In fact I have mostly ignored all the hype and noise surrounding this movie since I first saw the trailer last summer. I remember thinking to myself in the theater “here we go again. another CGI action fest”. The only thing that made it stand out a little was its release date of Christmas instead of summer when most of these type films are released. I was also confused because I first thought this movie Avatar was somehow related to the Japanese anime series by the same name. After seeing more trailers that theory never matched up. Finally, last week I broke down and decided to do more research. The results of which I will share with you now.
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