Start with a fabulous spiritual concept, like spirituality verses greed.

Write the story about wonderful Aliens, who are all inter-connected to each other as well as every other living thing on their planet. And the evil greedy Earthlings must lose the ensuing battle.

Hire Sigourney Weaver. Remind people of Aliens just a little bit.

Include 3-D effects that are out of this world AWESOME.

Take 10 years to make the film, wait for technology to be advanced enough to make the director’s vision SHINE.

Make it longer than 2 hours, so people really feel like they’re getting their money’s worth.

AVATAR the film, is absolutely stunning and has made it to my personal favorite list of top 5 films I’ve ever seen, as well as the top 5 spiritual films I’ve ever enjoyed.

Please comment and tell us what you thought of it.

There was nothing about it I didn’t like. My most vivid image / memory of it is, watching the Avatar’s pony tails connecting with the animals, the trees and especially the tree of souls. Connecting an reading each others minds and memories. Whoa!

We went to a 3-D flatscreen. You can see it in 3-D IMAX or regular flat as well.

I REALLY noticed the opening 3-D titles jumping out of the screen right away. There were quite a few moments we had with the kids where we reached out to touch something pretty, floating around a foot in front of us. Loved that. It (3-D) seemed better than I’d ever noticed before. I wasn’t that much into watching with the glasses, maybe I think I’m too cool for that now… But the glasses were different and the 3-D FX were awesome. So I ended up being very thankful we saw that version.

It was longer than 2 hours. But every moment was fabulous, so I actually appreciated that it was longer. The story was wicked to me too. I love stories about the status quo getting smashed like that. I kept imagining the tough GI Joe guy as Dick Cheney, and I was happy to seem him offed. The name of the mineral… Unobtainium, was a little corny… they could’ve just called it oil… or UnobCheneyum..

Being a fan of all things supernatural, I absolutely loved the connection the Avatars had to everything around them. I loved that they could feel each others memories, thoughts and that they also exchanged them with trees and every living thing on the planet. When the hair/tails connected, I was pleasantly reminded of the Utopias I have imagined for this world.

So yeah, best movie ever made, IMHO.

Steve