Avatar

Alright, alright. Everyone is either going to see Avatar or not this holiday season. I however, got lucky enough to watch it in 3-D over the weekend, I was just too lazy to write a review. Any who, here goes:

Avatar is a sci-fi action movie that sucks you in, moreso if you see it in 3-D (I can't watch McDonalds commercials with it anymore). The basis is that you follow a cripple marine's life on Pandora, a moon near Jupiter. As white as the guy is (no offfense), his name is John, who is a twin of his brother Bill.
Bill is a scientist who has been genetically researching the native people on Pandora, and has created a hybrid between human and alien. He got rich, being a doctor in 2154. On the five year journey to Pandora, he was killed, so the marine has to take over.
How in the hell does a marine do such a thing? Well, as the name mentions, and as we're mostly all gamers, the hybrid is just a lifeless character. They're put on a military base looking for a rare ore, and a kilo is a quarter billion on Earth.
This brings us back to the marine, who makes a couple friends, and is put into a foamy coffin of sorts, where he is actively playing his brother's creation, a 10', blue semi-human with a long ponytail. Insanity partly, but you know that something's bound to happen.
Now, the movie goes on for about 3 hours, but it sucks you in with CGI, tons and tons. Basically, you end up with more CGI than you do the crew to make the movie. How this is balanced out is the high-quality of the animation, great story line, and the fact that if it wasn't CGI, we'd have actors in outfits that would make the $300 million movie a waste. It's a thrill ride, but we should all hope and pray natives don't fight our military with arrows, because they can pierce through bullet-proof vests faster than bullets. Many people die, and you'd cheer for the natives with arrows, not the guys with the guns.
For Gundam fans, you will see a lot of robots, people in oxygen support masks, and things getting blown up. There's also a lot of fantasy scenes, flight scenes, three to four battle scenes, and also see how corrupt the military is over nothing.
Overall, it's worth going to see, and worth the extra couple bucks to see it in 3-D, considering the guy who directed it also did Terminator 2 and Titanic. The music was able to set a good mood, the characters mostly to practically realistic, and the storyline was good up to the end, which you knew was coming. There isn't blood flying everywhere, but you can get attached to the characters until they die, where you feel bad for anyone who gets hit. Hope you change your mind about your holiday plans, as you go ditch your family and go watch a movie. Seriously, in high school, who wants to listen to your brother's annoying game, and your parent's banter when you can go view an enjoyable film with your friends.