Avatar 3D Digital Deep Thoughts

Magical...might be the best way to describe the experience of seeing Avatar in Digital 3D. It would have been a great Sci-Fi flick in 2D, but in 3D it's out of this world. I've literally never seen anything quite like this (must be the equivalent of what is was like for our parents & grandparents when they saw the Wizard of Oz) & I'm a pretty big movie buff. Star Trek was awesome..but that was like watching a great movie...Avatar in 3D is like being immersed within the world of Pandora(the planet in the movie) while riding on a roller-coaster. I think it's safe to say that with this movie & the technology created to make it (he wrote the story 15 years ago & spent over 4yrs developing the technology to film it...something to be said for taking ones one to do something right vs just rolling out garbage ...P.S. this applies to the Financial community & Government (both parties) to appease the masses) will both save & revitalize the theater going experience. While more & more people are watching movies on their 50+ plasma via netflixed blu-ray tech...a movie like this really needs to be seen on the big screen...so kudos Mr. Cameron. Kudos as well to Zoe Saldana as the female lead(between this & Uhura in Star Trek she's the new Sci-Fi action hottie..& she can act) Sam Worthington as Jack Scully who seems to be the hero in every other film out now, Michelle Rodriguez playing like no other a mean latina chica Michelle Rodriguez (is she our female Tom Cruise?!?even though Ben Stiller does do Tom better then Tom in all fairness) & of course the Grandmother of action sci-fi heroines Sigouney Weaver.

I think it's safe to say that you don't even need to like Sci-Fi to enjoy this movie. With the exception of very young children, Sci-Fi haters, & English Lit majors who become critics who think movie's like Antichrist are fine art & are what the movie experience is about...this movie should appeal to most everyone else.

Now one thing I do feel I need to point out is that there is a fairly heavy handed Liberal "air" to this film. While I agree with the Eco spin that we shouldn't be destroying the forests to rip open the earth to mine it's resources for monetary gain...trying to allude that this is like America's adventure/misadventure in Iraq by representing Humanity as a bunch of greedy smarmy Haliburton employees backed up by Blackwater muscle (portrayed as mean, roided-out retards...led by a misguided gung-ho psycho {played brilliantly by Steven Lang...he's turning into the new Robert Duvall/Clint Eastwood old school harda$$ these days}) with some tree hugging scientists who "just don't get it" out to rape resources from the humanoid inhabitants of Pandora the Navi(think what if we evolved from Felines, were blue,very tall, lean supermodels & lived liked the American Indians of the Plains) who inhabit a rain-forest like lush gorgeous vibrant biologically diverse world with the deserts of the Middle East & it's local residents (the House of Saud, ex-house of Saddam, & the Mullahs of Iran don't seem to mind pumping their precious black gold out of the ground & selling it to various multi-nationals to refine for them to fund their various "causes) & using phrases like "terror for terror" & shock & awe tactics as utterly ridiculous & ludicrous. Better examples would be what the Europeans did all over the world, what China is doing in Africa today & what we, the USA did via United Fruit to Latin America. Actually the best analogy would be what if the Russia of today's Gazprom(Russia largest company & worlds largest extractor of natural gas) & it's private Army(yes it actually does have it's own) backed up by mercenaries comprised primarily of ex-Spetnaz (Russia's Special Forces) troops looking for new blood after Chechnya traveled through time (shockingly...no time travel in a Cameron Sci-Fi flick) back to the North America of the 16-1700's & tore up the countryside for it's natural resources while slaughtering American Indians might be a somewhat more accurate analogy. Next time Jim...either be a bit more subtle & thought provoking with your political messages or save them for dinner party conversations with your fellow travellers at your 20,000 square "carbon foot-printed" compounds that you arrive at in your Hummer "gas-guzzling" Limos to drink Jeroboams of imported French wines while being served gourmet imported delicacies vs. locally sourced food...reality really is a b.....ain't it just?!?

OK...now that I got that out of my system...absolutely amazing movie experience that not only has mind numbing crazy awesome special effects but a good story as well. The movie just keeps getting better & better the whole time as more of the world of Pandora is revealed...enjoy...& then go & see it again! As a very special holiday gift to my readers here's the link to the first scenes from the sequel (it's actually Spoiler Free... http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/comedy/69494/Best-of-Olivia-09-Avatar-Parody-Trailer.html)

Dudette...where's my 89th Air Wings Boeing 737?!?

Whatever happened to "practice what you preach" & leading by example?!? Maybe...just maybe if we followed these simple basic principles we wouldn't be in the mess we are in. Regardless the great leaders of the world both elected & not have descended upon Denmark to save us all (or at least one poor little Dutch girl being attacked by ever form of extreme weather simultaneously...I guess her brother Hans Brinker's fingers are stuck in the wall so he couldn't get to her) from total & imminent disaster. Oh my!!! Will this lead to the 4th+ Ice Age & then on to the 6th+ major extinction?!? I have an idea to help solve "Climate Change". I'm nowhere near as mensa-level intelligent as many of the geniuses that gathered in Copenhagen but let me throw it out there...

Let's put an end to these summits until our great leaders figure out a way to do it without flying on Military (yes you Nancy) & private aircraft that burn loads of oil while polluting the skies, getting driven around in gas guzzling carbon emission spewing Limousines from their grand "carbon footprinted"suites & eating gourmet food shipped, flown, driven in from all over the world. My radical suggestions are below

• Fly commercial in economy(P.S. don't call stewardesses bI-atches...yes you Schumer)
  
• Use shuttle van service
• Stay in a standard size room
• Eat locally sourced & produced food(drink water...non-bottled)
  
• Stop burning hundreds of $$$$$$millions$$$$$$ in taxpayer dollars when we are in a recession
• Have Mugabe present his speech from his leopard skinned gold plated throne room using PowerPoint
  
• Fund America's Da Vinci the one & only Al Gore to create & develop new technologies where people can communicate from afar using both voice & video in radical new ways( Yes they already exist...but so did the Internet & Ice Ages before he "discovered"them & gave us world peace).
• Have some real plans & ideas that might actually work
  

Again my ideas are very radical & to even fantasise, perchance to dream that our Solomon like world leaders (much less the elected ones) would subjugate themselves to such grueling & inhuman conditions just to save Gaia(mother-earth) or Hans sister is just crazy talk...but if they don't...

The First Layoff...

Lately the topics of the recession, the economy, & unemployment (10+% is the number reported, but the real number is closer to 20% (after a year out...you are no longer counted, which means 1 in 5 of you are un/fun-employed) come up all the time...so it made me wonder what ever happened to working for the same firm for all if not most of your career like our fathers & their father before them...when it hit me just who the first poor slob to get Fired, Riffed, Downsized, Laid-off, Pink-Slipped, etc., was ...none other then Lucifer. That's right, the first guy to lose his job was Jack Scratch, The Devil, Satan! As legend would have it the first guy to lose his job was due to a disagreement with Senior Management in the form of the sole proprietor of the firm...God. The story of why seems to vary between Lucifer wanting God's job, to him being jealous of God's love of man to he wanted to force man to be good while someone else (another Angel? JC?, his brother JC?!?) wanted man to have free will. Regardless of why, he was God's favorite...his right hand man. Unlike the Senior Management of firms like Bear & Lehman who fell from grace Lucifer was truly a "Master of the Universe".

Now this is where it gets tricky. While on the one hand Lucifer lost his job...with no chance of EVER being rehired...much less a reference (Yes...he worked here. Start date?...creation. Termination date?...a long, long time ago) he started his own firm from the ground on...down. He hired his own staff, developed his own marketing strategy & created his own business plan. George Costanza was obviously not the first guy to "do the opposite of everything!" Which for better or for worse(depending on your point of view) has been fairly successful throughout recorded history. So whether or not you believe in a divine being, if he has a son, if there is a counterpart to said divine being, take comfort from this story at least in the form of an allegory...that no matter how bad or high you fall...no matter how much you thought you were "a Master of the Universe" you very well may end up landing an even better job then you had...you may even start your own business that may give your previous employer a run for his money. And by chance if you ever run into your previous employer & he asks.."hey did you really need to compete directly against me after all I did for you!?! You can always reply(with a smile on your face) ..."the devil made me do it"...