Ok, I really didn't want to go to the movies and I certainly didn't want to sit through an animated feature film. Can you find a friend to go with, I pleaded to my 12 year old daughter. No mom, everyone's busy and I want to see Avatar. I'm furiously thinking how long can I keep her at bay? You can rent it when it comes out, but then it's not in 3D she whines. Yeah, but those 3D glasses give me a headache! After much fussing, I say, ok, then it's a matinee for us, you know matinee prices and all that. We get to the theater and buy the tickets, $21.00 the clerk says. I'm like thinking, what did the prices go up? Grumbling, I reluctantly pay for the tickets, get in and of course we can't pass up the refreshment counter, medium popcorn, yes with butter, and a medium soda, setting us back another $12.00, ouch! This better be good, prices like these I could of had a nice dinner out.
We enter in the already darken theater screen rolling trailers. There's about 5 people in the theater, we head for the top. I sit back put the 3D glasses on and let out a small yelp as a dragon comes flying at me. Mom, it's just the screen why did you scream? I'm not used to these fan dangled 3D glasses making everything so up close and personal. My 3D has certainly changed! The movie starts, pass the popcorn please. The popcorn bag is so large it's like passing a small trash can between us, this should last the whole movie and the drink for a medium is more like jumbo size. Well at least they try to give you the money's worth.
Avatar starts out promising, I love love love Sigourney Weaver, never mind that she really hasn't put out anything good after Aliens. I move the glasses up and down to see what the movie looks like without the glasses, fuzzy clear, fuzzy clear. My daughter whispers they make 3D movies in layers, gee how did you get so smart? Pretty soon I forget that I'm wearing glasses mesmerized by all the beauty. One word for this movie, amazing, astonishing, fantastic, incredible, oh that was four. I have never seen anything like it. The story's not new, your typical pillaging and raping of someone else's land, but told in the most amazing way. Who thinks of these things? What an imagination, what talent. If you haven't seen Avatar and are still old school like myself, I can tell you will enjoy it, it will take you on a fantastical journey and you will be surprised, hard to believe surprises at the movies still can happen. Take the kids, it's worth spending the time and Money on it, just remember not to hold the butter popcorn in your lap or you'll do what I did, walk out of the theater with greasy butter stained jeans!
