Avatar

Dear readers of my weblog.

The film that broke several box office records during its release and became the highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. and Canada and also worldwide, surpassing Titanic, which had held the records for the previous 12 years. It became the first film to gross more than $2 billion. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director and won three, for Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction. I’m talking about the film Avatar.

Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi (a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora). The film's title refers to the genetically engineered Na'vi-human hybrid bodies used by a team of researchers to interact with the natives of Pandora.

I went to Avatar myself and I think it’s a very beautiful film. I saw it in 3D which made it a little more real. I found the film very touching and it amazed me how real it actually looks. You can definitely see that it took a long time to make this movie. The only thing I found a bit unfortunate was that it’s a very long film. But if you haven’t seen it yet, you definitely should see it!