...AVATAR

After nearly 15 years of waiting, Avatar has finally hit the screen.

Mostly, yes. If you look at it from the point of view that the film has been in development for that long, it may tarnish the accomplishments of Cameron and company a bit, but taken out of context, Avatar is an impressive achievement.

For the first time, I was sucked into another world. The effect was so convincing that I never doubted Pandora existed. I saw the Comic-Con footage, and wasn't that impressed, but that was probably because I was only seeing snippets of the film on a sub-standard screen that wasn't designed for optimal 3-D viewing. in IMAX 3-D, the effects are perhaps the most convincing committed to film thus far.

The monsters of Pandora, from the dogs to the horses to the rhino-like beasts and the flying lizards, all are executed with such realistic detail and believable articulation that you completely accept that they're real. It's like watching Jurassic Park for the first time all over again.

Either way, Avatar is definitely worth the wait, even though it's got some flaws. I'll probably see it again, if anything to just absorb the experience of going to Pandor.

:D