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Okay, so I contributed to the James Cameron Self Love Fund and saw AVATAR. Yesterday we went to the 3-D showing (no way I would spend money on the normal view, I can wait for the DVD the way I do with 99% of the movies I see anymore).  I've had a day to think about it now and I've come to some conclusions, which are hardly profound, but I think worth saying.

Let me say up front that I wasn't bored.  Visually, this is a stunning achievement.  But that's what everyone is saying.  It is, in...