[Hack&Lube]

I disagree with 3 Justin 3 on basically everything he says (who sits in the front row for a 3D movie? Even the theatre staff advised me not to do that and come back for the later show since the one I went to was full except for front rows).

I watched this tonight and it was the first movie in years to ever affect me emotionally, to make me hold my breath, and feel genuinely moved and motivated. I sat there and I was shaking in a state of euphoria, near tears but happy instead. I am a very visual person though. When they showed the shot of that mountain city in the South American episode of Top Gear, I felt a sliver of what I felt watching Avatar.

Of course the story is predictable but I am a visual and musical aesthetic person. That is the most important thing to me in many aspects of life. It's also classic Cameron sci-fi with his specific anime-influnced style that he's been using very recognizably since Aliens. Think about all Cameron films. They are about human emotion, they are about visuals, they are about style. The actual background story is never an important point (Terminator, the Aliens, the Abyss, Terminator 2, Titanic, Avatar), it simply drives you to involve yourself emotionally in the characters.

You have to imagine at some point, that the marines of Avatar and the environmentally ruined earth and it's mega-corporations are related to the Colonial Marines and Weyland-Yutani corporation of Aliens. Cameron always creates these worlds where the backstory is left to your imagination and it's very powerful that way.

This is why movies like Blade Runner are my favorites, if you think about it, there is no real story there. What it is is art, it's creating a universe in your imagination.