I went into this movie with some high expectations. I knew it was going to be good. But I didn’t expect it to be this good. Absolutely incredible.

If I had to sum it up in a phrase, I’d say that this isn’t a movie, its a whole experience. The 3D was absolutely incredible, the world so rich and fleshed out that I feel like over the course of those 3 hours I got to know this amazing place called Pandora.  As the movie takes you around this luscious, beautiful, stunningly (I’m running out of adjectives) incredibly rendered world, you feel as if you are there. I think I could watch it again and again just so I can be there again. Literally be there. It was like something from my dreams, a world I’ve always wanted to see but never could.  It takes “comes to life” to a whole new level.

I honestly hope more movies can be like this in the future, but for now this is insane. I don’t think I can find a single flaw. The actors were brilliant; they were so believable both as humans and as the Na’vi (the name of the natives).

And the plot. Its like the Matrix meets Princess Mononoke–if thats even possible.  A classic colonial story/Native American story with a strong Nature theme. Yet somehow the movie made it all feel so new and fresh. Even the predictable stuff seemed appropriate, like it couldn’t have been any other way–from first moment to last.

I want to see it again now. I want to be back on Pandora. Dammit, James Cameron, my only complaint is that you made this so real that I want to be there. I want to be a  Na’vi and I feel like its there, like I could be. Why isn’t this actually real? Thats my only complaint.

The themes and intricacies of this movie are too great for one showing. I think I’ll see it at least 3 times before it gets out of theaters. The world alone is enough to see it several times and still get more from it each time. But also the themes and the complexity of the story and its metaphors and parallels–I feel like they are creeping below the surface and I still haven’t even begun to touch on them. I’ll be seeing this again soon. Thank you James Cameron. Brilliant.

–No–That is not even dramatic enough. I have always had an obsession with forests and with living in a symbiosis between technology and nature. The two have simultaneously fascinated me. To pull them together this wonderfully…it is consuming.  If I could make anything exist right now it is this. I would live in this world, gladly. Gladly…