Avatar

It was touted to be one of the best films in CG which James Cameron (director of Titanic) took 10 years to make as he was waiting for the technology to catch-up with his conceptualisation. After watching the more mainstream movies recently (including romance genre's New Moon and family animation's Planet 51), a little science fiction should be a nice change.

Avatar talked about a separate life in another planet. A group of scientists and military people originally tried to integrate into the indigenous tribe to understand their culture and lives betters so as to persuade them to move away from the site which was rich in the minerals that they were trying to harvest. As they spent more time with the tribe, they began to take the sides of the tribe. A war started between the indisgenous tribe and men.

The movie's theme might not be new-new. After all, it was the perpetual fight of good versus evil. It was also about mankind destroying the environment for commercial use. Just like other Hollywood movies, the good triumphed over the evil. The environment was preserved. Love blossomed between the marine man and the indigenous tribal princess.

I have watched the 2D version but I heard from colleagues who subsequently caught the 3D version that the 3D version was better.