2010 is here!!

Here's hoping for a great new year!  I was also granted the chance to see Avatar in the first few days of 2010, and like Pastrami I also found it predictable.  It was still good fun, though!  Some of the imagery is truly awe-inspiring, even if it is almost all CGI.  Ignoring, for a moment, that it was pretty easy to know what was coming next - it was non-stop fast-moving action almost all the way through.  Since I was there primarily for the entertainment of my 8 year old son, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!  :)
    For 3 hours, my son accomplished what he can normally only manage for a few minutes at a time: undivided attention.  His tics (Tourette Syndrome) disappeared for the duration of the movie, and he was even engrossed enough to take off the ear protectors that go with us to every event that's conducted with noise stimulation.  Watching him, I was able to forget the fact that "yep, here comes the next expected event"  feeling and just enjoy the immersion in sight & sound.  I thought it was a pretty good laugh to see Sigourney Weaver comp'ed into a tailed, overstretched smurf!!  I also like the way the movie kept most of the "advanced technology" within the realm of the theoretically possible based on extrapolations of what's going on right now - after all, it is supposed to be SCIENCE-fiction!!

Happy 2010 all!