After the long wait for Avatar the first thing most people ask about it is “Did it live up to the hype?” In my personal opinion: It did, and then some.
Watching Avatar, I felt (pardon the expression) like a kid again. It reminded me how wonderful movies can be. Mike said that when a kid stood up in front of him in the theater it startled him, he had forgotten he was in a theater watching a movie he was so immersed.
Such has been my experience with James Cameron all through my childhood. To me, Cameron movies are similar to Pixar movies in that i don’t personally think there is a bad one. Some are better than others in my opinion, but all of them are great. Let me try to countdown his majors:
6. Titanic A movie’s success isn’t necessarily a judge of it’s quality, but Titanic is actually a dang good movie. It has awesome elements of action, adventure, romance and even some darker more frightening moments.
5. True Lies Outside of the Terminator films, True Lies has got to be not just the ultimate Arnold movie, but the quintessential shoot ‘em up, explosion action movie.
4. The Abyss Watch the director’s cut. It’s an amazingly unique and ambitious movie (most of it takes place under water).
3. The Terminator The one that started it all is darker and scarier than the rest of them.
2. Aliens Instead of trying to recreate what Ridley Scott did with his claustrophobic and horrifying original, Jim turns the sequel into a densely layered horror adventure with marines, big guns, lots of Xenomorphs, and of course: the queen!
1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day One of the greatest movie experiences of my life so far and arguably the greatest movie sequel ever made.
Having only seen it once and all the other movies a whole mess of times, I’m not sure where Avatar fits into the countdown yet. My first impression is that it could very well be right in the front, maybe even number 2? Time will tell. But it was certainly one of the best experiences i’ve had at the movies. Seeing it in imax 3D made it the most awe inspiring and immersive time i’ve had at the movies for sure.
go see it.
-Josh Dies
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Saw it. Loved it. Was awed by it. How do you think it would hold up in 2D after seeing it in 3D?
Barely. Avatar is entirely a 3D movie, that’s its whole point.