Thread: whats the verdict on Avatar??

so it was discussed in a couple different threads but since it came out i haven't talked to anyone about it, nor seen any reviews. (if there is another thread out there please delete this one mods)

so was it good? too long? worth seeing in the theater? poor story line?

what the scoop

My family loved it. Enough action for the boys, enough of a love story type line for the ladies. Here are a couple of reviews that I pulled up online. It really is worth seeing

Avatar Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes

Avatar :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews

Review: 'Avatar' delivers on the hype - CNN.com

Avatar -- Film Review

Excellent movie, but a touch too long (around 3 hours)

IT's one of those scenarios where removing scenes would make the movie worse/more obscure/less interesting, but if you don't remove them it's too long...

Lesser of two evils, leaving the movie long

It was still AWESOME though.

Saw it in 3D and loved it. 3 hours? Come on. It feels like 1.

Thoroughly enchanting. The closest any movie has got to making me feel like I've been transported to another world. See it in 3D, ideally on an Imax screen.

Wonderful!My 16 yr old son and I liked it immensely.Intend to watch it again someday.

I went with my girlfriend and saw it at the IMAX in London, and we both thought it was great!

The storyline is certainly not as poor as the critics would have you believe, in fact I rather enjoyed it.

Its kind of a modern day Pocahontas, where the soldier joins the tribal girl in the forest and she teaches him how the tribe lives and so on. I didnt think it was a bad story line at all.

The effects are awesome and its definately worth seeing in the cinema. It is quite long as well, so make sure you go to the bathroom before it starts...!

I dont think its too long though, and with the 3D you get so into it that you dont notice the length at all.

Absolutely brilliant I thought, and I'd go and see it again in a flash.

Hee hee hee...Pocahontas.

(FYI, I WILL be seeing it, haven't yet.)

Really beautiful work, ground breaking cinamatography, very simplistic story line that actually desends to charicature in some places. Don't expect great art or you will be disapointed. I didn't and I like it a lot.

well i am now pumped to see it and yet i will probably wait as i don't have an Imax anywhere near me so my 37 inch screen at home will do just fine. plus my local cinema 6 is really uncomfortable so to sit for 3 hours is just wrong. the closest alternative is an hour away so waiting seems inevitable.

its a shame too as i have never been to an Imax nor seen a movie in 3D.