Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:47:03 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Avatar
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> 1/6/2010 7:34 PM >>>
>
>Saw Avatar over the weekend.  If you haven't seen it, go see it ASAP.  =
Watching
>it on TV won't be the same...this one is a real looker, even the non-3D =
version.
>
>Whether you like incredible scenery (much of which is bio-luminescent at =
night),
>hardware (mech walkers and giant mining machines for instance), the next =
advance
>in state of the art computer animation, really cool aliens and alien =
ecology,
>battle scenes (in the air and on the ground), primitive (?) meets =
high-tech
>conflicts, respect the environment messages, or what terrain might look =
like on
>a planet with a large amount of room temperature super-conductor in its =
crust,
>you'll find something to like about this movie.  It's real SF stuff, done =
really
>well.  I expect to see it in a bunch of award categories next year.

Over at MakingLight,  Patrick describes this review : http://www.strangehor=
izons.com/reviews/2010/01/avatar.shtml as "magisterial"  with a roll-over =
text on the link "Which makes me a lot more likely to see it, and soon." =

And yes ... there spoilers in the review.  Really. Don't act surprised.

A friend has seen it twice in Imax 3-D.  He says he has seen the future of =
film making .... to paraphrase an old quote.

mjw