It’s not like us to get way overexcited about a film, spoon-feed ourselves outrageous hype, only to madly dissappointed when the final release doesn’t meet our ridiculous expectations.

Having said that, the tidbits coming out about Avatar make it sound like December 19, 2009 could be the first day of the rest of my life.

“I couldn’t tell what was real and what was animated–even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn’t possibly be real,” Quittner said about the footage from Avatar that he saw. “The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.”

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