Reality Check
Sue Brooks December 29th, 2009
Last night we travelled into town and had a wonderful dinner before queuing up, paying our money and receiving a black pair of spectacles each. Yes we decided to go and see Avatar. The movie started at 8.40pm and I was surprised to find a long line of people ready to experience a night at the movies. It is a long time since we have shared a theatre so full.
But from the moment we were asked to put on our spectacles until the credits rolled there was not a cough, a comment or a distracting noise for the entire 180 mins. This movie is a masterpiece and I highly recommend it. Without spoiling it for you the plot is not a complex one and involves a common theme revolving around a fight to preserve ‘home’. Avatar is gripping because the special effects are so special that we are literally transported to an alien world. A world so beautiful that I wish it was real! I won’t say more but I am sure you will be impressed if you go to see it. Do experience it in 3d as I can’t imagine it being as impressive in ordinary 2d.
One of my presents for Xmas was the latest Dean Koontz release called ‘Breathless’. I always enjoy the latest Koontz but this story grabbed me from the start and is one of those easily read impossible to put down stories. I enjoy authors who successfully combine science or history etc with their fiction writing and Koontz does so smoothly and quietly as the end of his story nears. Koontz actually questions Darwin’s theory of evolution in such a way that I will now have to go and do some research about earth history.
As always a beautifully written story that left me uplifted and feeling very glad that I share this planet with gifted talented people who can both entertain me but educate me and give me cause to think!
I hope that you are enjoying the rain and that you are getting a chance to recharge those batteries. I also hope the retailers who work very hard at this time of year are doing well.
- Just musing
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