It’s been a few days since I’ve posted. Sorry for that. This last week was crazy in both work and life. Wednesday night was our office meeting (everyone loved the cookie tins that I made!) and Thursday night, James and I took some time to just relax.
Friday night, my parents came up and we went to the movies. Both James and my dad were super-psyched to see Avatar, James Cameron’s latest box-office phenomenon. Luckily, we are close to an Imax theater, so we got to see the movie in 3D Imax.
As the wife of a Nerd, I have come to terms with the fact that we will be at the movie theater at least an hour before any movie starts. James will start to get antsy if he thinks we’re cutting it too close.
After almost three years with him, I just kind of go with it. (Thanks Mom & Dad for being so understanding, and laughing with us as we stood in line for an hour…)
Let me tell you, it was worth it. Avatar has to be *the* coolest movie I’ve ever seen. Not the best, but definitely the coolest.
The story takes place on another planet, Pandora, where humans are trying to mine an ore called “Unobtainium.” The air is toxic for humans, and there is an indigenous population of blue aliens who reside on the planet. In an effort to co-exist with these aliens, scientists have used DNA from a few select humans to clone alien-human hybrids that are controlled by their human creators.
The whole time, I knew I was watching a movie about aliens and spaceships. But it looked *so* *real.* I caught myself believing that the aliens were real and wondering if the government has secretly been working on flying spaceships without our knowledge.
When I’m watching a movie, especially a three-hour epic, there usually comes a point when I think, “Okay, it’s about time to wrap things up.” That never happened during Avatar. I was so mesmerized by the beauty of the world and all the little details that went into the experience (at one point, 3D ash fell from the sky and I thought it was going to hit me in the face) that I was prepared for the ending, but never wished for it.
I guess I should state a disclaimer — I am not one of those people who goes to the movies to think. I don’t enjoy provocative movies. I want to be entertained. I like love stories and explosions and characters who tell a good story.
The plot of Avatar is fairly predictable, but that never bothered me. It was a good story (no matter how many other times it’s been told) and it was set on a beautiful landscape. And that was enough for me.
(I’m sure that the realistic space ships, robotics and lots of explosions didn’t hurt things in The Nerd’s opinion).
I made sure to document the occasion — be sure to laugh at us all in our super-cool 3D glasses:
