Avatar

Jesus christ.

Reviews are coming in on the new james cameron movie. I think it's going to be spectacular, fun, rollercoaster with substance.

Cameron's my hero. Even though I've read horry stories about how much of a tyrant he is as a director and indeed he comes off as a smug know it all asshole in some of his interviews, he's earned it. He's not some jj abrams clown or nolan who basically finds a formula and sticks to it and pumps out a quantified hollywood product. He's an actual motherfucking artist. Straight out of the days when cinema aspired to be works of art and not merely yet another mass produced product like so many other art forms have turned into these days.

That's why the movie will succeed, I feel. It will have fucking tried HARD to push the film medium forward into unexplored territory, I hope.

Film's always changing. It started silent, black and white, then someone discovered sound and people thought it actually ruined movies, but now you can't imagine one without it, then color came about, and it was actually a selling point for films and tv shows. IN COLOR. Then special fx movies came along that for the first time made the impossible seem possible. I was there as a kid seeing jurrasic park for the first time. It's amazing to think back and remember just how in awe I was of what they could accomplish with computers back then. Now a kid today would be like, dude my ps3 has better graphics. Wow man... But hey, that's life. The older I get, the more trivial my past experiences start to seem.

Avatar could do it though, be the next leap in film though we already have 3d movies and realistic cgi isn't really amazing anyone anymore. So what's so special about Avatar? It seems like one of those obscure 80s movies they used to make about weird shit someone must have thought of while taking a shit one day, weird science ya know. But whatever. I'm hoping the movie is not only good to watch but does something new we've yet to see.