瑰麗的潘多拉星球，有趣的藍(lán)色外星人，侵略與反抗的高科技對戰(zhàn)，想要真正感受《阿凡達(dá)》帶來的震撼，還需去IMAX3D影院。

射在巨型銀幕上的令人驚嘆的、水晶般清晰的圖像，配上由最先進(jìn)的數(shù)字環(huán)繞音響系統(tǒng)帶來的震撼聲音，會令觀眾仿佛身臨其境一般。

James Cameron's last movie Titanic grossed a record $1,835,000,000 worldwide. So you can understand why they let him break the bank on giant 3D Smurfs in space. In our No.2 story, the critics have spoken Avatar is apparently not awful. But 12 years after Cameron's last hit, will the movie-going public still show up?

And the release of Avatar opens up Pandora's box of questions about how big this 300-billion-dollar movie will be at the box office, and how it would Influence movie making in general.

" I think this will be huge, maybe the highest grossing movie in the decade. "

Director James Cameron says he doesn't feel guilty about spending all that money making Avatar.

" You know, we went in knowing it was going to be an expensive film. That's what sort of Fox expects me to do. "

Reviewers have raved about the 3D special effects and the digital creatures, whose movements and facial expressions faithfully mirror those of the human actors playing them.

" I think it will have long-term affects on technologies and how film-makers will use them. "

Harry Knowles of wields a lot of influence with young males, the core audience for films like this.

" Personally, I feel Avatar is one of the most tremendous sign fiction films that I've seen. "

Some moviegoers say the 3D special effects are almost too good.

" I'd to leave the theater just once and I was pretty disoriented. "

James Cameron is the director who gave us that all-time blockbuster - Titanic. The secret to the success of that film, teenage girls, attracted by the love story, who kept going to see Titanic over and over. Teenage girls may not identify with the 10-foot tall, big-footed aliens in Avatar, but still those blue beings are expected to bring in a lot of box office green starting this weekend.