Avatar was one hell of an experience. Over the weekend, I got together with Hemal and Bo. I suggested we eat at dieci, which Don had taken Christina and I to earlier in the year. It’s a cute, small place with delicious food, by the way, and they swap out their menu frequently so it’s fun to go back. Anyway, afterwards, after a lot of trekking around in something resembling a blizzard and multiple attempts to find a showing of Avatar that was not sold out, we ended up playing Street Fighter on xbox and, later, watching a late showing of the movie.

So, I thought it was amazing. I actually managed to cry in this movie during the final action sequence, which is bizarre, both because it’s an action sequence and because I tend not to get very emotional when it comes to sci-fi flicks.

While I am neither a sci-fi person nor a fx junkie, anyone who likes science fiction and special effects stuff should, without a doubt, see it. In 3D. The world that they’ve created in this movie is just so intricate and well-thought out that anyone who is even remotely interested in it should go just for that experience. And I loved that it was in 3D – it made everything seem much more immersive – even though I was originally extremely skeptical and for the first 15 minutes or so my eyes had difficulty adjusting (it’s hard to know what to focus on visually at first, but eventally it’ll stop seeming that way), so, I could see how if you don’t have the patience with that sort of thing, you might want to avoid it.

As for anyone else, I’d say the action component is solid — it is pretty non-stop, so this is not a movie where you’ll be likely to feel “bored”. There’s romance, drama, solid acting, etc. The plot line I thought was good, but it bears some obvious resemblances to a Sci-Fi rendition of Pocahontas when it first starts, and it’s more or less what you’d expect. And yeah, the movie takes itself a wee bit seriously. All in all, yes, you could find things to dislike or criticize about it, but there’s so many good things about it and it’s so well made that, for most people, it’s worth the cost of admission to give it a shot.

Oh, also, I watched Julie and Julia with Amy, which was fortunate because the charater/real person Julie Powell lives along the water in Queens, which is where Amy lives, and a lot of the shots in the movie were the views that we had from Amy’s apartment, haha. Pepsi-Cola!