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Avatar I saw on Monday (December 14) and the shock still takes me at the time of writing this post. The film is spectacular and revolutionary, a visual phenomenon in itself. Some have criticized the script, no doubt Further improvement of the film, but I think the staging is so great and the action is so achieved that compensates for any weakness argument. Avatar makes you enjoy the movie like when I was a child. See her again now and it lasts more than two hours.

After Titanic, Terminator and Aliens, James Cameron returned to his most ambitious project backed by $ 300 million and which employed more than four years of work exclusively, colossal figures even for Hollywood. The money and time spent are the results on the screen.

A priori it might seem a film for an audience fond of special effects, explosions and science fiction, mostly male (statistics Advance ticket sales in the U.S. indicate that 75 percent of buyers are men), but Avatar is a work to be studied in film history and it is a must for any fan of cinema. I went to see it with my wife, not suspected of excited about films of this style, and left happy. We both want to go on holiday next year to Pandora.

Best of Avatar is the universe that moves the viewer, the innermost planet (Pandora) it took two years to design and where everything is connected like a single living organism. Cameron skillfully uses all the technology at your fingertips (3D performance capture, etc.). To guide the audience on a journey of initiation through places from another galaxy in minutes. Gloria blessed that compensates spend a little more money to enjoy the show in IMAX screen.

The detail of the blue characters, natives of Na'vi called Pandora, and its seamless interaction with the characters of flesh and bone is memorable.

Admittedly, the plot is not very demanding. Poses challenges not plot or twists that will surprise the audience, you probably already be quite amazed with everything else.

Basic speaking, human beings in our desire to exploit natural resources to make millions of us stand in the year 2154 with an army of mercenaries to extract a mineral Pandora very profitable. Of course, this idea goes against the principles of respect for the environment and natural harmony of Na'vi, a primitive-looking people who come to be a photocopy of a tribe of Sioux and Apaches of the American West but oversized and blue whose local language is the work of linguists at the University of Southern California (USC) Paul Frommer.

I'll spare you the details, but no lack of love and a fierce and unequal arms colossal battle in which "sitting bull" fire arrows at a "Terminator." That said, I repeat. Old and well worth the script, despite being simple and superficially define the characters, is at the height of an average production of science fiction in the U.S. and well above stories like Transformers.

Moralizing that have to be good people and save the environment is welcome in these times.

Cameron unearthed a gold mine with Avatar, a film that Spielberg himself perplexed, as U.S. media reported. We'll see how long it takes to recover investment and unleash sequels or prequels, in this case it seems as interesting as what happens after what existed before the arrival of man on this planet.

The cast Sam Worthington HEAD (Terminator Salvation), Zoë Saldana (Star Trek) and Sigourney Weaver, who returns to work with Cameron but with another character like Dr. Dian Fosey of Gorillas in the Mist that Ellen Ripley Aliens.

A tip to the end: id in before you enter the room you keep your bladder from playing tricks in the final minutes of projection.