Ok, so i saw Avatar yesterday and I'm happy to report it is so fucking awesome I left the cinema thinking, "right, I think I have a new favourite film of all time, Holy crap!, I never thought I would see the day that a new film could actually eclipse every other classic film in my memory" Its truly a masterpiece in almost every way. A few very slight concerns to do with the design of the Nav'i and maybe the very beginning of the film could have been a tiny bit slower to ease you into the world. but yeah, Go see it immediately!. I can't wait for a blueray version with some sort of extended cut. Right in the beginning of the leaked "scriptment" that I read around a year ago there are scenes of earth all polluted and fucked up with mega corporations running the government and you get a description of the ship that goes to the neighboring star system and how expensive it is to fuel it for such intense speeds, using the amount of energy the whole earth uses in a year just to achieve the acceleration needed for interstellar travel. All that info really helps to set the scene but its cut from the film, apparently it was shot though so it will probably be there on the special edition disc, there are some creatures missing too, like one thats like a weird panther that can shoot its head off to attack its prey, but its head is really the female or its young or something. There was also an absence of these huge flying jellyfish creatures too but really you cant blame them, there is just so much going on that anymore awesome would probably cause peoples brains to implode

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