Avatarded
Warren Sanchez is a 3-D animator. A damn good one at that. Warren Sanchez and I used to work together at an advertising/animation studio. He knows I like to read a lot of comics and watch a lot of effects-heavy films.
Warren Sanchez knows I like to curse a lot.
Warren Sanchez has never heard me curse out of sheer awe of a movie’s visuals.
And then we saw Avatar.
2009 in Film is a closed book as far as I’m concerned. Thanks, Jim. After the Star Wars prequels, Transformers, and G.I. fucking Joe… I badly needed that.
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On the other side of the bowl of awesome sauce, I was at first worried about a project Jad and I were working on that was superficially similar. HARBINGER WAR is a sci-fi tale pivoting on the premise of cavemen battling an extra-terrestrial threat. The parallels are all there, but then I thankfully unclenched when I realized Lucas had beat Cameron to the punch with Phantom Menace, and Burroughs spanked them both with the Barsoom books decades before.
So yes, I’m good. This, as they say, is fuel for a hopeful and mighty fire. A movie hasn’t thrilled me like that in a long time, and if nothing else… it felt amazing being a wide-eyed kid again.
