TRR movie review

So I saw Avatar-3D on Saturday night and I have to say that I'm glad people are going back to 3D. It's really immersive feeling and if audiences don't mind wearing the glasses, I predict that most movies will be 3D unless it would just be pointless. Romantic comedies for instance, are just a lot of sitting around examining each other feelings so there's not much to gain from 3D but, action flicks have everything to gain. I found myself wondering what a Jason Bourne movie would be like in 3D....awesome I imagine!

Anyway, the richness and depth of the fantasy planet of Pandora was well worth the movie ticket. Visually, it was as good or better than Lord of the Rings. That said, you couldn't enjoy the story for being distracted by the obvious allegorical slap at our ancestors' mistreatment of native-Americans(Pandorans ride horses, shoot bows and arrows, wear war paint, are barely clothed, and literally commune with nature) and then at the Bush Iraq policy. James Cameron seems to believe that Bush went into Iraq, not to liberate millions of Muslims from a murdering, brutal dictatorship, but to kill the indigenous people and steal their one natural resource that they have in abundance and we desperately need, oil. On Pandora, that resource was not-so-cleverly named Unobtainium. The bad guys on Pandora, the US Marines, used terms such as "shock and awe" and "fighting terror with terror" to describe their brutality toward the peaceful, doe-eyed, native Pandorans. They also made a point of saying how, "There is no green left on the human planet. They've killed their mother." Clearly an environmental cautionary tale.

If you can put aside Cameron's misguided allegory, Avatar is a rich, wonderful fantasy with predictably-rewarding, good-overcomes-evil ending. So pay your $9, check your brain at the door, and enjoy 2hours-40minutes of really fun fantasy.