James Cameron's new sci-fi CGI epic was pretty amazing. I've told several people that about 80-85% of the movie is CGI, and it all looks spectacular. From my frame of reference, in terms of the way that Avatar seems to represent something truly new in moviemaking, I would compare it to Jurassic Park. Those dinosaurs - both the robots and the CGI ones - were like nothing I had ever seen before. Older people might compare it to Star Wars, Blade Runner, or 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The "creatures" (for lack of a better word) and the fictional planet of Pandora on which Avatar takes place are remarkable. The plants, animals, and topographic features in Avatar all look other-worldly, and yet, at the same time, they are completely believable. Cameron imagined a fantastical world that was vastly different from ours and then proceeded to make it feel like a world that was somehow also real. Avatar, like all of those other groundbreaking movies, aims high, and it hits its mark. And with Avatar, the mark is really, really high.
See it in theaters.
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