Avatar

     If you haven't seen Avatar yet, I suggest you go see it before it leaves theaters! (I highly recommend seeing it in 3-D and/or IMAX, if possible.)  I have seen it 4 times and will see it at least once more before it leaves theaters.  James Cameron did an absolutely AMAZING job with this.  The cinematography is amazing, the cast perfect, story imaginative, the score (by James Horner) is beautiful.  The scenery created in the movie is amazingly beautiful, the native people, animals and plant life are unique.  The ways of the people remind me of both Native American and African tribes.  This is definitely one of those times where I wish the fictional land actually existed.  I would really love to see the jungle and wildlife that exist on the planet Pandora.  Each time I've seen this movie I love it more and more (and it even took me 4 times of seeing the movie to notice something that I'd thought I'd have noticed sooner...).  I can't wait until the movie comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray (and until I get myself a Blu-Ray player and HD TV...)!!
     Short synopsis:  Jake Sully is a former Marine who suffered an injury and is now wheelchair bound.  He takes the place of his murdered twin brother on a scientific mission on the planet Pandora.  He initially takes on the mission as if it were just another military operation, but once he begins to know and understand the people better, that changes.  When the military destroys a sacred place of the people because of a certain element buried beneath it (something worth millions of dollars a kilo), Jake takes the side of the people and helps eliminate the American military presence on the planet.  And, of course, he falls in love with one of the natives.  A happy ending.

~E