At 11:59 pm last night, I was one of the few female grownups in a theater awaiting the midnight showing of Avatar 3D. The room was packed largely with over-caffeinated, rowdy adolescent males, who were throwing things, screaming obscenities, playing music, and using laser pointers. I was starting to regret my decision to see the first showing...but then the film started, and it was magic. Simply magic.
No one moved, except to flinch. No one spoke, except to gasp. The entire room sat spellbound for over 2.5 hours, lost in a new technology and a new world. The plot is nothing special. But the feeling of BEING THERE was overwhelming and undeniable. 3D has finally been perfected. And it is amazing.