Fascinating use of 3-d film technology, glasses and all. You feel like the bugs are around you, you’re in this James Cameron film that is up for loads of Oscars tonight. The plot ranges from cartoon-like presentation of the evil colonel in the service of the rapacious corporation and its amoral managers in space to the all-too predictable visions of the indigenous species occupying the planet in a perfectly balanced connection to nature. This Gaiea vision and religious stupidity (God is nature is the planet) is a tad silly, but the environmentalism and anti-corporate sentiment work for me, and I’d watch Sigourney Weaver boil water. Borrows from everything from “Dances With Wolves” to “Pocahontas” to “Lord of the Rings” and even this old movie about Israel’s war of independence. The indigenous people even sound like the Sioux as they ride up on, well, whatever they’re riding. And yes, the avatar of the American soldier is, of course, as in “Dances With Wolves” both accepted and able to lead to the better future, but for all those flaws (and blah, blah, blah) well, we both enjoyed the movie a lot. . I think we also enjoyed the whole 3-d and IMAX experience just as much. Our first feature in that environment and my first 3-d feature since House on Haunted Hill back in about 1957.