I just got back from seeing Avatar at Cinetopia. Holy crap. Serious. The movie was so beautiful to behold. It was really, really long, but it didn't feel long. Know what I mean? Anyway, I'm looking forward to all the SIGGRAPH papers about the rendering techniques developed for the movie.

I really like the juxtaposition of the way the Na'vi connected with the trees, pa'li (horses), and ikran (flying creatures) with the way the humans connected with their mechanized walkers and avatar connection machines.

My single nit is that native peoples with bows and arrows never win. The Zulu came close, but pretty much everyone else just got slaughtered.

I also saw Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend. Oh man... so many lols. Jason Schwartzman seriously made that movie. "I can't go to school. I'm sick." "No you're not." "I have a fever." "No you don't." "Okay."