Avatar is this year’s most anticipated film. Boasting a $500M price tag, Avatar now holds the record for the most expensive movie ever produced in the history of film. James Cameron held the previously held record when he directed the movie “Titanic” which until recently was the most expensive film. Cameron breaks his own record with this film. Should we even call these movies films anymore? As time goes on, they are using less and less film, and moving more and more toward digital. Just a thought. Anyway, Cameron hasn’t made a film for 12 years, since “Titanic” was debuted. All this time goes by and he is now given half a billion dollars to make his next movie, this sends up a bit if speculation.

After seeing the trailer, I was a little skeptical about how this movie would turn out. It seemed to me more like a Sci-fi flick that wouldn’t have the audience it deserved. Interviews with some people coming out of the movies, showed that the trailer didn’t really send the right message. It didn’t make the movie appeal to the audiences like it should have.

Walking into the movie theater I received a pair of 3D Glasses, Usually I try to stay away from seeing a movie in 3D because I am usually distracted by the uncomfortable glasses or the fact that the movie tries my eyes to the point that I have to take the glasses off every now and then to rest them. For this movie, all of that didn’t happen. I completely forgot about the glasses and just enjoyed the movie. I was sucked into it and didn’t want to leave. From the first 10 minutes, it caught my attention. Maybe it’s just my weakness for inner character narrating, I don’t know.

So the movie began. The entire time I was watching this 163 minute movie I was in no way bored. Cameron focused on such small details that made the story interesting till the end. My only negative thought throughout the entire experience was wondering when it was going to end. That’s only because I had to pee and didn’t want to leave. At some points I didn’t want the movie to end. I always wanted to know what was going to happen next.

Every thing in this movie fit. The action, the romance, the conflicts, the music! The music in this film was very good and helped with the overall feeling of the movie, however I did hear glimpses of “Titanic” melodies and I may be mistaken but for some reason there were some melodies that reminded me of the movie “Troy.”

Some of the things that were going to happen in the story were kind of predictable, but what movies aren’t predictable these days. Just like Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings, Cameron created a brand new world, and even a brand new language.This movie is somewhat like a modern day Pocahontas.

Throughout the movie, something would happen and I would think to myself that the plot has just reached its climax, then the movie would push more and more conflict and tension in the story. To me, it was a good thing. The move as interesting from the beginning to the end. You learn about these people as the main character does too. I didn’t fell like I was in the dark when I left the movie. Avatar features some very good actors from movies I have always enjoyed such as Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, and one of my new favorites, Sam Worthington (Main Character Jake).

I very much enjoyed this movie. I think it has something for everyone. It is NOT what most people think when they see the trailer. I say disregard the trailers and just go SEE it! Trust me. It’s worth seeing.