(As posted as a response to a thread about the movie on Gaiaonline.com's Entertainment Forums

Definitely going to be on my shelf as soon as it hits DVD (because I think Blue Ray is an unnecessary extravagance when I can't fucking see with my own eyes well anyway)

But oh, my, god. I really did enjoy this movie a lot. I couldn't help thinking about the line, "I had a dream I was flying" about something or other, in the real real beginning, before you even see what Jack Sully looks like.

I mean - just - even if the plot has the same time honored cliches, and there aren't very many twists at all (and it could have used a few), really, the movie was more about the people, the Na'vi, and another slap in the face by tree-hugging movie producers about the dangers of using up our limited natural resources. As if we didn't already know that.

And yet we're completely willing to expend ridiculous amounts of resources to drive to a theatre and go see a movie about it.... HRM.

At any rate, the visual aesthetic was definitely there. I intended to go in with "oh god I hope this doesn't suck or I'm gonna be REAAAAALLY pissed", but I went with my bf, so we enjoyed it together. It was the first movie we'd gone to in awhile where neither of had gone to see it before. So it was feckin' awesome. I wasn't really disappointed, once I went in knowing what the movie was and wasn't going to be.

It was not:

A blow-up smash-all deathfest involving blue aliens. A blow-up, smash-up deathfest involving giant blue smurfs in a giant jungle. It is not a thrill ride from end to finish.
You must allow yourself to be immersed from the very start, or you'll sit there staring at the bits barely covered by little loin cloths and blue alien boobies barely covered by VINES
I'm telling you though. Shit DOES blow up, but you'll feel like SHIT.
And they really try... TOO HARD - to make the villains evil. It's like they're pointing a giant "BASTARDS" sign at them, like we didn't exactly get it that they were bad from the start.. what are we, toddlers? we've never seen a movie with bad guys in it before?? It was almost completely juvenile, the way they portrayed the bad guys.

All in all, I liked it.
But everyone's entitled to their opinions.

Kir's left again to go to his own place. I feel abysmally lonely already...

*Sighs...thinking about making Christmas cards... but can't be bothered. Just... too tired and sad already*

So this drunk guy comes in all the time and gets two doubles and a value fry. No biggie. He's a paying customer too. So we let him sit. Sometimes he'll fall asleep in his own half-eaten food and drool, stinking cheap liquor. Except the other day, the men's room door was strangely locked and no one inside was answering. We thought it was broken, except when we discovered it stank of booze. So we figured Mr. Alky had paid us a visit to use our restroom and fell asleep with a bottle in his hand. It wasn't so funny, since half our customers had to use the ladies' room that day. Can't remember which it was. An ambulance came and removed the man from the premises. It was funny but at the same time, it was not.

When the man came to install my internet, he stank of marijuana.

Does everyone in this fucking world do some kind of drug or another? I'm *really* not pleased.

He did a good job. But he came half an hour early, around 10:30 (I was in a compromising situation with my bf over and all, was not expecting him till 11), got the job done around 11, and took my money with a happy smile. I was pissed off because I had to go into work anyway, late, and ..uggghhhh.... yesterday was a nice day for me, though, 'cause Kir stayed and hung out and it was great.

I MISSED HOUSE. WHY? DONT ASK.

I WAS WEARING MY "IT'S LUPUS." SHIRT AND EVERYTHING.

NGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

it was a xmas special

YAY! This really neat guy came over and installed internet with cash. He smelled like marijuana. >_> But I'm not complaining. I'm here, at my own place, and doing my internet thing.

I'm just annoyed 'cause it's eleven and I could still go to work if I want to... I'll just call and ask, 'cause I don't want to miss a day.
Umm, I called in, so now I gotta go. Okay? Bye.

Ninja Assassin.

The final boss fight (which is the only way I can describe it as such) is epic.

GO SEE.