Is there a non-Pixar year? Don't they have a release every year now?

Now, I think so. There used to be non-Pixar years. Point is, it's a great animated flick, and there rarely seem to be any truly strong contenders besides the Pixar movies.

My main issue with the movie was that there was really no mystery for Holmes to solve

Right. And there's a villain running about, but given that all he's doing is killing other bad guys and we don't know what his endgame is anyway until the end, why should we care if he's caught?

Because he wasn't killing just bad guys before, and there's nothing to say he won't go back to innocent girls.

Re Jessica's complaint:

I don't think she was a moron or being a bitch. I think she had a strong image in her mind of someone with zero chance of attachment, and could not read the signals however strong they were because they were drowned out by her image of him. You don't have to be stupid to make that sort of mistake even though it leads to deeply stupid behavior. And he was just as delusional in his own way.

Holmes: I think the reason we should care if he's caught is that he's working against Holmes. I think the movie had pretty much gained that--however, there was no investigation of him outright, just tangentially. The movie meandered a bit towards the latter half, where I think we knew why we were there, but the characters didn't, but I didn't mind.

Saw Avatar with the fam today, we all loved it. I thought the villain(s) of the piece was(were) a little cartoonish in his(their) villainy, and one bit of dialogue/line delivery fell flat and cheesy, and I'd really like to see it without the 3-D, but I enjoyed the hell out of it.

James Horner's score remained in a supporting role for the most part, which is a feat for him (although I usually enjoy the hell out if his overblownness), but as much as I love his other scores, I don't actually want to want to be picturing Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th and Enemy at the Gates when I'm on Pandora.

one bit of dialogue/line delivery fell flat and cheesy

Hee - just one?

(I loved the movie too, but it needed a script doctor BADLY.)

I'd really like to see it without the 3-D

We're planning on seeing it tomorrow, and we've heard from quite a few people that 3-D is better.

Any other Buffista opinions? Juliebird, why do you want to see it without the 3-D?

why do you want to see it without the 3-D?

I felt blind watching it. It's been decades since I've seen a 3-D flick, and I don't think my eyes like it. For all the coolness and the weird moments where I wanted to lean forward to get a better view out the cockpit window only to remember that I wasn't actually in the cockpit, it was as equally distracting to me. So I want to view the movie without that distraction and see if it the loss of the distraction plus the loss of the extra coolness will even out.

I'm thrilled that Avatar is available in non-3D. I have monocular vision and the 3D technology just gives me a screaming headache.