Avatar (semi-analytical) 9.5/10

I just have to lay this on the line before we do this: 1. Avatar is worth all the hype. 2. I'm not going into the political stuff because in reality that's your job as a viewer. So let's dig into this movie in a semi-analytical way. I'm basically going to roughly go over a couple things in terms of IMAX vs. Regular and Good and Bad 3D.

Basically the story of Avatar goes as such: bad guy humans go into a new planet cause Earth sucks. They find really really nice minerals on this new planet. The inhabitants live on a nice patch of minerals. The humans are made of stupid and try to move the natives by force. Sound familiar? If you haven't, it screams "NATIVE AMERICANS" I mean one of the scenes literally is a picture of the Trail of Tears. The mis en scene was great but it shoved that point down the audiences' throats. Anyways, I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about those two aspects cause of course you've heard that Avatar is great and most of the people are right. So let's go to the first topic IMAX vs. Regular Theater. I didn't know what the difference was and is it worth the extra four dollars to see avatar (or any other movie for that matter).

To start off with a more funny point, the first thing I noticed about the IMAX theater were the seats that it had. They were very comfortable, and I remember sinking into the seat and leaning back almost like it was a recliner. Although this is a good perk, it obviously doesn't make a great mark. Let's just say this makes fifty cents of the four dollar difference. The next part is the movie screen, the screen makes it so that even while immersed within the movie, there is more going on within the person's peripherals (this is assuming you're smart and took center seats). This part makes up maybe two dollars and fifty cents because it allows the viewer to HAVE to pay attention to everything! Scenic views are more expansive and the action scenes take more than just a passive view of things. IMAX makes everything not bigger but wider. The last part is the sound (this makes immersion complete in Avatar). The sound boxes are bigger--much bigger. Sometimes action scenes would literally make the fabric on my clothes quake because of the sound. The immersion here makes the viewing so much better. The surround sound and everything makes everything complete. So IMAX sort of wins over regular if you're viewing a movie that lends itself up to it (like Avatar and maybe Lord of the Rings). Watch it for GREAT movies because it is fourteen dollars to see it.

The next topic is more subjective than objective. My past with 3D isn't much but from what I know 3D has been basically these cheap gimmicks where things from the movie either pop out at the audience or they're cheap gimmicks where things basically "poke" the audience. I don't know--I don't really enjoy it because it's not the story that matters at that point but rather just the 3D. The three dimensional part isn't what interests me at all when it came to Avatar. There is an immersion factor that is played within the movie. The three dimensions makes the person almost a character within the story. To make a "better" comparison, the 3D in Avatar accomplished what Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield could not do. The experience doesn't make you nauseous and they fully immerse you within the movie. The 3D makes it so that you and the screen are not separated at all but rather that the screen comes to the audience and the pans aren't pans but rather just the audience looking around. The zooms aren't zooms but the audience looking closer. The 3D in this film is both revolutionary and phenominal. The CGI is fantastic the Na'avi are SUPREMELY lifelike. They seem almost like real people! Man has movie making come a long ways since the 90s.

Quick thing before I end: I'm giving it a 9.5 because there isn't much to look at other than the stunning visuals and well written story. This is what true Hollywood style filming is all about.