In the attempt to have some 'Us' time, I searched for a good movie to watch, and go for a 'date' with Matt.

Luckily, AVATAR was just showing in cinemas so off we went.
I bought the tickets before hand to avoid disappointments knowing how a highly hyped block buster Hollywood Sci-Fi movies can get in Singapore, and so I was able to get the last top row seats of the largest screen cinema in Asia.
Sure enough, on the first day was a Friday night and there were many audience, including a row of Gay Geeks.

The effects of the movie was very very good. They made the aliens look so real.
But what was very obvious to me was that the objects they used in the story and the elements were very much taken from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika) and Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫, Mononoke-hime) both directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

While I give credit for AVATAR's creativity in making the effects so real and the degree of imagination, the story line is pretty straight forward - human vs aliens, resembling the war we have today, like the greedy government vs the tree huggers.
It is still far from the depth and twist of the script of Hayao Miyazaki's films. He is the original and his stuff is nothing anyone saw before or after!
There are few good animated film directors in Japan though.
Recently there was a movie that won an international film prize. I really wanna watch it.

Gosh, I'm such an Otaku!