Thank you TCM......

I love old movies. I can't believe it took me this long to get into them but now I am catching up on all he movies I've heard my mother talk about and as is the usual epiphany with her......she was right. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" rocked my world and as ashamed as I am to say it I just this year saw "Singing in the Rain" and it was brilliant. "The Graduate" was a little creepy for me but "Under the Yum Yum Tree" was quite delightful. It is true I judge a good movie by how fabulous the clothes are and the gowns are so fantastic in classic films I am constantly engaged to see what they will wear next. Also the social decorum is so foreign that it's a thrill to watch. The dialogue is almost as hard to follow as a European film but the insults are incredibly more creative which makes it all the more entertaining. Since I'm a history buff I love watching films from these amazing time periods as they are happening, I find it....for lack of a better word...COOL! Plus classic films are such a breath of fresh air from the usual daily programming.

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.