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This is my least favorite Chan-wook Park film. That said, all his films are a level above most so I can’t say it’s a bad film. It just felt like it wanted more impact than it delivered. Unlike his other films though, I didn’t get the emotional attachment with the main character I felt with Park’s other films.

I can’t say part of my reaction was not influenced by the two guys sitting next to me who were receiving and sending text messages throughout the entire film and the lady next to us who broke out her store-bought build-your-own-salad she munchily ate during the first 1/2 hour of the film.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance remains my favorite Chan-wook Park film. Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance were both really good, but I just had more of an emotional, involved response to Mr. Vengeance.

This film had me on the edge of my seat a few times. Very good. And the Oscar buzz around Jeremy Renner’s performance seems justified.

I think I had the same reaction that Harry over at Aint It Cool News had. It was a good movie, but not THE war movie I really wanted from Tarantino. As for WWII flicks, Where Eagle’s Dare remains my all-time fave.

I enjoyed this, but with Meryl Streep I expected to. Does make you want to cook a few things afterwards.

As with most people, my first experience with the film is the trailer for the film which I thought was really good. A lot of feedback mentions that it reminds people of a video game and having seen the trailer a few times I get that.

But I trust Cameron. And with this free 15-minute preview, it seemed like his way of telling us while he needs to release a trailer, he nows the standard trailer isn’t the best conditions for experiencing this film. I had to experience it for myself.

The IMAX 3D scenes were from the first half of the movie. I will be seeing Avatar in this format upon it’s release. It’s just SO much better.

And I can’t wait.

The 3D makes the characters pop and seem much more real than the trailer was able to get across. In the scenes shown in the 15-minute preview, while I did find myself marveling at the world of Pandora created for the film, I was also getting into the characters and story itself. I wanted more.

December 16th seems too far away right now.

Could be the best movie I’ve seen all year. One that definitely makes you think afterwards.

It isn’t too bad a time. I frequently thought, while watching the movie, that Hasbro must have wanted them to place about 100 or more toy ideas in there. You’ve got outfits, vehicles and weapons for air, land, sea, desert and frozen environments.

When it was over I felt that may have been the first movie that actually felt like a Saturday morning cartoon.