Now that I'm not sick... Avatar!
It's kind of amazing at how time doesn't fly when you're sick. It drags on and on and yet somehow sort of meshes into this weird amalgamation of days where you aren't really aware of the time passing. This is the thing I probably hate most about being sick.
My pregnancy has been rather mean to me up until tuesday, when I finally got to see a doctor and was prescribed something to help me keep my food down. Now that I've been able to recover my eating habits, I should be able to recover my drawing habits and get crankin on some of those last minute gifts that I've otherwise been unable to do.
You'd think then that with this workload ahead of me I wouldn't have taken the time to see a movie... but I did.
Like millions of other's I went and saw James Cameron's Avatar over the weekend and was impressed by the graphics... but that was about it.
SPOILER ALERT!
If you havn't seen it and don't want anything spoiled for you, stop reading here.
Aside from how well everything was rendered, I felt that I saw this movie before... which kind of sucks because with space epics like that you really can go nuts with the creative aspect of things and give people unique stories and characters.
Instead this movie took the main character from "The Last Samurai" (or any other whitey save the day movie), broke his spine/legs and threw him into the future version of "FernGully" where he used a "Surrogate" to pork "Pocahontas" and then save the Native Americans Na'vi from the evil coporate version of the "Starship Troopers."
I guess it was a good movie as all of the movies it pulled elements from were good movies, but I really didn't like the fact that everything in it was something I've seen before.
Now... I did enjoy watching the movie, but it does not live up to it's claim that it "will change how you experience movies."
To me, it was just another pretty movie.
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