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I'm not a film critic but I can only say that this an epic. I usually enjoy James Cameron's films...for the most part. However, I'm not falling all over myself to watch them. I went into this film excited though, because it IS James Cameron's big "comeback" into cinema.

The story was fantastic. Even if it's a little simple, it follows the "feel good" formula:

An unlikely hero+a love story+a shit ton of action= Success

Anyway, I was reading the IMDb boards for this film (yes I read them) and I found a lot of criticism about the CGI in the film. People complained that the effects were too "cartoon-like" and the aliens look unrealistic. I don't agree...but here is something a poster wrote in rebuttal to someone else that made it all make sense:

"I was really impressed with the CGI. The N'avi aliens were excellently portrayed. By the end of the movie, I wasn't even thinking about how they looked. They blended in after the first hour of the film. And honestly, they're aliens. How can you make something look true to life and realistic if it doesn't even exist? In any case, the performances by the actors in their CGI bodies were so convincing.

As for the scenery, this is James Cameron's VISION of a whole different planet with a completely new biological atmosphere, not the Amazon rainforest. It's FANTASY, and everything in this film was fantastical. I'll bet if all the scenery was shot realistically in South America somewhere, critics will complain that Pandora wasn't anything special enough for humans to WANT to extensively study and invade.

This was an epic film. Open your eyes a little wider to imagination."

It's hard to imagine what life would be like if things were different. I guess I have the case of the firsts.

Of course, I want everything I do with someone else to be special. There's something about being FIRST that makes everything seem warm and glittery. It's sharing an experience that you have never shared with anyone before. How does it feel to put effort and love into something, only to realize later that it has been done before? Not only has it already been done, it has been done BETTER. And that will always be the case wouldn't it? Things will always be better the first time around.

Suddenly, the movies I thought were special to us have lost their lustre, the notes, the gifts are not unique or creative and the times we spent just being together always poses a question: Am I good enough?

I can argue that every experience you share with someone is new. Even if it is repetitive, the fact that it is with someone else becomes an entirely new experience.

I've been feeling a bit down lately. I don't have little quirks or inside jokes from which I can generate a beautiful set of memories, like the one before me. The lovely moments I thought we shared had already been shared with someone else.

It's not a matter of competition. I just feel like a knock off version of someone better.