Death From Above

I saw Avatar last night. Avatar is the kind of movie that I typically have not heard of and pay no attention to until friends invite me to go see it--which is what happened last night. After watching it for three hours, I understand what the big deal was supposed to be. In case you are interested in watching the movie, let me tell you exactly what it is:

Avatar is an expensive and lenthy remake of Fern Gully.

At first I thought only the first half was like Fern Gully because I hadn't seen that since I was little, but then I read the wikipedia page and the two movies are basically the same. I've heard that some people think Avatar is Teh BEST MOviE EVAR!!! But it is not. It does not compare to Star Wars: A New Hope, or Firefly, or The Lord of the Rings. If you think Avatar is awesome, you are ignorant, and will find all of your favorite movies in the next paragraph.

Avatar can be more compared to the Harry Potter movies, the Halo video games, fan fiction taking place in the Warhammer universe, and, most definitely, the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest. One nice improvement over the animated version that Avatar makes is that it throws in a lot of military toys, including mechs. Mechs are like dumb toy versions of Gundams, so I enjoy them by association, the same way someone who loves tigers would appreciate house cats, or the way someone who likes enormous slimy fecal-generating monsters would like dogs.

My favorite thing about Avatar is that someone uses the phrase "Death from Above." I'm curious as to the origin of this phrase, if it is something anyone in a real military has ever said, or if it comes from video games, or what. I first heard the phrase playing Dawn of War, an excellent real time strategy game with a gripping story, decent writing and superb voice acting. It is something the Assault Marines say when you click on them or make them attack or something. Wikipedia says "Death from Above" is also a video game maneuver. I don't know what its talking about; the closest thing I can come up with is when you are playing classic UT and you jump on top of someone from high up, raining six rockets on their head. Someone did that to me when we were playing UT in physics class in high school, and the a girl watching me play actually shrieked out loud.

So, in summary, Avatar is not very original but I like it because it reminds me of better fiction that I enjoy.

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Lego Gundams!!!