Plea from Pandora

Ok, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: If you haven't seen Avatar yet, now is the time.

Lets look at the facts. It's been out for 8 weeks and is still making a stupid amount of money, stupid in this case meaning a huge amount, over 2 Billion, an amount so monumental that James Cameron is, at this very moment, building a mountain of one dollar bills so high that it requires breathing gear to survive on top of. We're talking Olympus Mons huge. It's so massive that this mountain is actually beginning to actively draw more money in to itself because of it's own intense gravitational force. This is a large amount that we are talking about here. And it has managed to make this amount of money because it has continued to draw huge sell out crowds into the 3D and 3D IMAX screens, where tickets cost anywhere from $10 to upwards of $20. For reference, here in Utah we've been paying $13.5o a pop. Not cheap. I have personally funded the north face of Mt. Cameron on my own, and I hope to one day have a small plaque erected there saying, "Here lies Dick's money. It could have gone to food. It did not. Amen." However, I digress. The point of all this is that the big screen version of Avatar is an extravaganza for the eyes which has seldom been attempted, let alone achieved on this scale of breath taking beauty and wonderment. And sure, the writing is a bit... predictable. And to be blunt, the dialouge leaves much to be desired. To be honest, if you took the plots of "The Last Samurai", "Dances with Wolves", "Fern Gully", "Pocahontas", and "Dune", threw them in a blender, added a cat and some blue dye (see? not making a smurf joke...) for spice (that, however, was a Dune reference... Bu-dum-cha), you would get something quite like Avatar, with about the same quality of writing. However. HOWEVER! Despite these liabilities (or rather, in spite of them) this movie will suck you in and make you it's bitch for two hours and fourty five of the most amazing minutes you will ever have the option to pay for. Unless, you know, you're into the whole WINK WINK MONEY EXCHANGE thing. Then, well, whatever. My point is that this movie will not, CAN NOT, be the same on the small screen. Seeing that friggin huge tree crushing me to death, the amazing flying scenes, the FRIGGIN AMAZING battle scenes, the spectacle, the breathtak-aweso-majest-supe-sweet-ness that is this movie. And by this movie, I mean 300 MILLION IN SPECIAL EFFECTS. Trust me. Go see this movie, before IT'S TOO LATE. Small screen? F THAT.