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The red dents on the bridge of my nose from watching Avatar are going away now, which is nice.

It looks great. Apart from, rather importantly, the giant blue kitty people with huge cartoon eyes. Shouldn't the effects which are key to the film be better than Gollum after another eight years of development? I suspect this is more a design issue though, since they just look daft. Especially the avatars, who are caricatures of the main human actors on top of everything.

On which note, Sam Worthington grows his hair out and starts to look oddly like Jamie Bamber.

The ecosystem is clearly the work of someone most interested in marine life. Check out the seeds played by jellyfish, and the way everything's bioluminescent even though there's a perfectly good day and night cycle.

And the natural interface plugs are a bit eww.

The 3D is lovely when swooping around stuff, but the rest of the time, ow, my nose.

The voiceover makes it clear that our hero will be fine.

I was checking my watch during the final battle.

There are four sudden zooms in CG shots in the three hour runtime, which are jarring and Fireflyish.

And that was all that surprised me in any way.

At least last time James Cameron made the biggest movie ever it had Kate Winslet.

Trailers: Percy Jackson And The McGuffin Of Strange Familiarity, Britain's first 3D revival movie... which is a documentary about street dance... and the kids' version of the film directly following it.

The Danny Glover Orange ad was quite amusing, though.