Avatar - my humble review

I'm drawing a blank on personal stuff right now. So instead I'll tell you about watching the movie Avatar for the first time last night.

First of all I have always liked James Cameron's movies. His female characters are always strong-willed, often strong physically, and generally don't take shit from anybody... even back before that was cool. Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, Linda Hamilton in the Terminator films, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Abyss, Kate Winslet in Titanic... all bad asses really. So I have no idea why it took me so long to see Avatar. I think maybe there was just too much hype. I needed to see it with no expectations.

I have to say I still love Sigourney Weaver. Not sure why they needed to make her a smoker in the film. I don't think it really added much to the story or her character. But she's still awesome. I loved the main guy... Jake Sully... I loved how he ran the first time he woke up in his Avatar. Really I loved the movie... even though it reminded me a lot of the Disney version of Pocahontas... but without the now annoying presence of Mel Gibson.

The movie was just stunningly beautiful to watch. I got to watch it on a nice TV and on Blu-Ray so it was pretty great. I am sure it was better in the theater, though. Maybe they'll bring it back to Imax someday.

Also, I thought that all of the special effects were awesome, but the best had to be Jake Sully's legs as a human. They actually made him look paralyzed. It was quite amazing.

I did have to wonder why every single one of the Na'vi were super skinny with small boobs. I mean... where was the variety? It just didn't seem realistic that the entire species had one body type.  Also, couldn't they have come up with a less ridiculous name for the mineral they were searching for... I mean "unobtanium?" Silly. :)

Anyway, that's this girls opinion on the movie. I felt the need to write something, but the mood is still a bit on the dark side, and I don't need to write about that all the time.