That's the one, Warrior. It stars Kevin Costner as a post-US Civil War officer in the Old West. I've heard the same description for Avatar, and I'm planning on seeing it tomorrow so I should have more to say then.

Today I saw The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock (another familiar name is Kathy Bates as Michael's tutor). It's inspired by the true story of Michael Oher, who is a rookie this year in the US National Football League, who was adopted by Leigh Anne (Bullock) and Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw).

It helps to be a football fan (the movie title is a reference to the game), but it's mostly about his adoption by the Tuohy family. I've a soft spot for adoption, with nieces and nephews from China and Korea, but while this movie was enjoyable enough it just didn't jump out and grab me.

Ah, Avatar...... I've been wondering when a discussion about this would start up. I'm planning on waiting and watching the film on DVD (if I even watch it at all). The only two things that have interested me about the film are 1. the score and 2. the special effects.

@ Warrior. Yes, Dances with Wolves was 1990.

Speaking of that comparison, I mentioned to my Mom that the plot of Avatar sounded like "Dances with Wolves with aliens instead of Indians" a few weeks before everyone started making that comparison. *yes, a little pride in making that comparison ahead of people*

I'm not sure Avatar will have the same impact on DVD as it would in the cinema. It's really made for 3D screens.

PrinceCor, to reiterate what W4J just said, if your interested at all in seeing Avatar I really would recommend seeing it on the big screen. In my opinion the real reason the movie is so amazing is the special effects and the 3D technology, neither of which can really be fully realized through watching on DVD. As others have said, and I mentioned briefly, the plot is not anything groundbreaking or revolutionary (you've probably seen the story dozens of times) but the effects and technology truly are.

Unless one has a 60" Plasma screen Home Theatre TV system, I don't know why one would wait for the DVD. Special Effects Action/Sci Fi/Fantasy Extravaganzas are made for the Big Screen .

And why is comparing Avatar to Dances with Wolves a bad thing? That was a great film with a great message that we could frankly have a little more of these days.

GB

And why is comparing Avatar to Dances with Wolves a bad thing? That was a great film with a great message that we could frankly have a little more of these days.

It wasn't intended to be a bad thing, just a means of summarizing the movie with as little wording as possible. A lot of plots tend to get recycled in Hollywood and so one tends to see the "same movie" repeatedly over the course of years. Alien was described as "Jaws in Space" while Under Siege was termed as "Die Hard on a battleship". They run out of ideas and just scrub up old plots lines or premises, change some characters around, and you end up with a movie very similar to its "root material". The only real detraction from such films is that they're not wholly original because they borrowed so much of their plots from other movies. Still many of them are done so well that one doesn't really mind if they don't look into it too deeply.

I get you Shadow . I guess I'm responding to all the "Dances with Smurfs" jokes people have been making, which implies some sort of Negative Connotations .

GB{/b]