I've finally seen this movie and it was three hours long. I also watched it in 3D (no 2D version availabe at IMAX theatres) and it was the most expensive movie I have ever paid for in my life - $18.50! Also the first long movie I've ever sat through that got me bored out of my mind by the last hour and wishing it would just finish already!

Boredom and expensive theatre tickets aside, did I find this movie entertaining overall? Yes, it was entertaining... for the first two hours. There were lots - no, hundreds, of pretty things to look at. Everything was pretty, even the night time jungle forest. Those floating jelly seed-things were pretty. The blue cat people were pretty. Naked and pretty. They reminded me of tree-hugging, crack sniffing hippies from the 60's tripping out on tree roots. All naked and frollicking, and mating, and dancing around butt naked.

There were lots of animals, with weird designs like spiracles, two sets of forearms, and fancy little head-dress things. Very nicely presented, and very pretty to look at.

There were so many pretty things, all beautifully presented to the audience, that the ugliest things in the movie were the humans. They were shown to us as technology-whoring Orcs with Sauron as their warlord leader, and once Sauron is defeated, these Goblins, Trolls and Orcs are sent packing back to their "Dying and polluted Planet". (Rolls eyes). By about this predictable time my attention started wandering, because as the story became more and more cliche-ridden, and its moments became cheesier - When Pandora Animals Attack - and successfully defeat the evil Goblin Troll Humans for the beautiful Elven Cat People, my attention span had just about dried right up. Yeah, okay, I KNOW the human race are nothing more than technology-whoring Cave Trolls - but do we need to be reminded of this every five seconds?

I haven't seen a movie in a while that presented technology as being pure evil. Its all very Amish.

The technology looked cool though

I also had the feeling, whilst watching the first two hours of Avatar, that all this pretty Computer Generated Imagery was being thrown in my face to disguise a really dumb story. In fact, as the story progressed, it started getting in the way of all the pretty SFX. There were so many of these moments I found them dumb, predictable and brain dead. Like the predictable Love Scene. At least the Cat People go down on one another the same way we do. They even suck face the same. Yeah right. That's just Too Perfect.

I do like how they hiss like house cats when they wanna get real mean. Even the human blue cat hippie does it to his own species before he betrays his own race. Always easy to betray your species when you've got some nice piece of tail to go down on. :rollseyes:

I entered a competition today [link] just for fun! It's a video game based on the end of the world (Wow, 2012 the video game!) and I used some of my OC Halo characters, just for fun though! I created my own background for this pic since I didn't want to use the resource material backgrounds they've got.



And the two characters were drawn and coloured with the tablet. Only one attempt was used for the Flood, but I had to roughly sketch the Sentinel, then redraw the Sentinel on a new layer. Sentinels are miiiighty hard to draw. Both characters equated to about three hours of drawing and colouring each, and the background another two-three hours.