Avatar.......

I finally made the pilgrimage to see Avatar, and in IMAX 3-D for that matter, which was a super choice on my part since I fair so well when overstimulated. I nearly jumped out of my seat when the fancy theater speaker promo came on which got laughs from everyone I came with including my husband. "Shut up and drink your gallon of icee," I told him. After a few previews I concluded that this was NOT like at the zoo when we saw the whales in 3-D, this was an attack on my senses. I don't watch action movies because they send my anxiety into overdrive, I am way too empathic and feel every character and very quickly get emotionally exhausted. Half way through the film I have already given Ricky hand cramps from squeezing so hard so he takes it back, at which time I begin to attack his thigh. There was one point when the soldiers were invading my lap at the end that I thought..."I wonder what I would look like in 3-D?" "No wait, that's real life you idiot." When the movie ended I just went limp in my chair. I was exhausted, I had been tense for the last 3 hours....scared ****less by alien dinosaurs, cried, ached....the whole nine yards. And for a genre I don't care for the film was AMAZING. I so wanted to hate it because I had heard all the hype. Spending $500 million on a movie....who did James Cameron think he was? A friggen genius that's what! The alien world he created was like I was watching the best dream I ever had but not in the back of my head, in front of my eyes taking in every color and detail. It essentially was a historical documentary just set in the future, and since we are in Oklahoma,"The Native State," I couldn't help but think there were Indians somewhere in that theater just exploding inside during the war at the end. The actress who played the lead alien girl was A-MAZ-ING. Her performance was purely voice, you never saw her face and the emotion she delivered for that character was incredible. I also thought that the soldier guy's avatar looked like Justin Timberlake when he smiled. I wish the whole movie could have been glow in the dark night scenes, jellyfish butterflies and flying scenes through the floating mountains. That's when the 3-D was good, most other scenes having the 3-D was evil. It makes me tired to think that James Cameron had to create that world from scratch, it makes perfect sense that it took years to create that movie. I wish I could have been at the premiere, after the film there must have been an uproar of thunderous standing ovation applause and no one does that anymore at the movies. I clapped though.....cause the film deserved it.