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I didn't want to rent Avatar. I was concerned since everyone said it was such a great movie, in the theatre. I was afraid that at home wouldn't have the same effect and we never made it to the theatre to see it.
Since we have netflix, I added it to our Que and it came yesterday.

What an absolutely beautiful movie. It was nothing like what I thought. There were real people acting, it wasn't just a "cartoon"
The movie stars Sam Worthington (super cute) as a soldier named Jake who is paralyzed from the waist down. His brother was a scientist who went to Pandora (another planet) to help with the Avatar program. The Avatar program uses human DNA and Na'Vi DNA (the local blue people) to create Avatars. The scientists kind of Matrix themselves into the Avatars bodies and use them to try to befriend the Na'Vi.

The whole premiss is that the Avatar's home is a huge tree which grows atop a part of land that grows Unubtanium, a new gemstone worth tons of money. The military and the scientists are on a quest to get the Na'Vi to move so that the skypeople, Americans, can get to the gemstone. The military want to do it violently and use Jake to scope everything out.
However, things get tricky when Neytiri, Zoe Salanda, basically the princess of the Na'Vi discovers Jake and well things get really good.
If you haven't seen this yet, you must!