Great Movies

So the other day I went with my Pawpaw and two of my younger brothers to the theater to see the movie Avatar, and it was the most amazing movie I've ever seen! There are so many things I love about it, I don't even know where to start!
First of all, the fact that the main character, Jake Sully, is a marine immediately drew me in to the story, completely aside from the fact that it's a science fiction (my favourite genre).
The plot is also interesting and unique, unlike any movie I've ever seen before. I loved the idea that the Na'vi, who are blue cat-people that live on a moon called Pandora, connect to every living thing in the forest, although I think it's strange how it's done. They all have long braided hair which actually turns out to be these tentacle thingies that grow out the backs of their heads, and they intertwine them with similar structures on the animals that they ride, causing the minds of the two to meld together.
The romance between the human man and Na'vi woman was unusual but still rather sweet, even though realistically there would have been too many complications for it to work out. I never really did understand how the avatar bodies, being made partially of human DNA, could still survive and function exactly like full Na'vi, but I guess that's okay, since it's just a movie and I need to quit being so overanalytical.
The special effects dazzled, delighted, and overall fascinated me in a way I have never been amazed by any other movie before. Most of the jungle scenery and Na'vi characters were completely computer animated, but at the same time, they looked so real. If I didn't know any better, I would have thought they were real people, real animals, real plants. It was really that good!
My favourite scene out of the whole movie was after Jake catches the red banshee and goes to the spirit tree where all of his people have gone to hide from the humans, and they suddenly realize that he really does care about them.
My favourite thing about the story overall is the fact that all the alien stuff seems so familiar, even though there's absolutely no way it could be real. You can see a lot of Native American culture in the Na'vi culture too, which is cool to me because I've always had this great respect for the Indians. I also really like the little seed things that keep appearing throughout the movie. I guess what's so cool about them is that you can't really tell whether they're supposed to be animals or plants, and it really doesn't matter either way.
As soon as this movie comes out on DVD, I plan to buy it. [for MYSELF and NOT for the whole family to share! No way am I going to let any child under the age of 12 even touch that disk, because I do know that they will scratch it. ~(>___<)~ ]

I also got to watch part of Where the Wild Things Are, which is also a very good movie. Unfortunately, the site I was watching it on not only produced really poor picture quality (very, very pixelated) but also turned out to contain illegally downloaded material. (Of course, I should have known...) Needless to say, after finding out that bit of information, I didn't watch the remaining part of the movie.
You may have heard it said that this movie is not for children, and I will agree, it wasn't really intended for young audiences, but what I did get to see of it wasn't actually that bad. I think mainly the reason people say it's not for kids is because of the mood of the story and not actually due to inappropirate content. All of the main characters are really emotionally screwed up.
The main character, Max, is a little boy who feels like no one loves him, and one night he gets into a fight with his mother, bites her, steals someone's sailboat, and sails away to an island that just happens to be inhabited by a really messed up family of emotionally challenged monsters.
The main monster, Carol, is really dissappointed with life and gets violent and destructive when he thinks things are going wrong. The girl monster that Carol likes, KW, has left her family to go hang out with two owls named Bob and Terry all the time. Ira is the one that likes making holes in stuff and doesn't seem to be able to make his own decisions. He just always goes along with his girlfriend, Judith, who always sees the negative side of things and tries to pick fights with anyone she thinks might be opposing her. There's a goat man named Alexander who is always doing stupid stuff trying to get attention because no one ever listenst to what he has to say and a bird man named Douglass who does whatever Carol wants because he doesn't want to put up with one of his tantrums. A nameless bull creature has not spoken in any of the parts I've seen so far.
The most disturbing part of the movie is when Carol realizes Max isn't really a king and tries to destroy their fortress, and then KW swallows Max whole to hide him from Carol. Those two things might possibly scare kids, but other than that, it's not a scary movie, just really sad.
Really, the story is just a little bit depressing, but I'm pretty sure it must have a happy ending, or else all the movie trailers wouldn't have portrayed it the way they did. I really want to finish watching it (the REAL version this time, and not the horribly pixelated way) and most likely will add it to my movie shelf as well.
So that's it for this movie review. I hope everyone else who watched either of these two movies liked them as much as I did.

Pax, y'all!
~Sunshine W.