Not the Last Airbender…

Well, i finally saw it. It took three attempts to see it, but we finally made it in. The whole show sold out by the time we arrived  (with our tickets already in hand) and we ended up in the backrow with all the teenagers.

One girl, seated just to my left spent the whole film texting, and as near as I can tell half of the texts were to the girl just on the other side of her. At the end of the film she looked at her friend and said, “I didn’t understand any of that”, to which her friend responded, “I didn’t either till I saw it the second time.”

What the hell? 1) Avatar was a good movie, but it was hardly rocket science. Just take Pocahontas and add a little Robotech and you are halfway there! What’s not to understand?!?! get off the damn phone!!!! 2) Again, get off the damn phone . . . though I guess I should be at least glad they weren’t talking but that glowing light beside me was driving me nuts, I swear I almost grabbed it and threw it forward into the audience.

The movie though I enjoyed. I won’t go on and on about the plot, I hear the same thing from everyone. Good film, stunning visuals, basic plot, yadda yadda yadda….

Back to those teens beside me again for a second . . . why would you go see a film you don’t understand repeatedly? Is Avatar breaking 500 million dollars tonight because it’s visually that good, or as my nine year old wailed when she found out she might not get to go, “…but it’s the hottest movie in the world!” Is that really the motivation? Said nine year old isn’t even all that interested in Sci-Fi (blasphemy though it is she can take or leave Star Wars), she just wanted to see what everyone else was going to see. In the immortal words of Joss Whedon, “Grrrrr, Arrgh.”

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