Hows Avatar doing? eh the usual, just smashing records

So Avatar is back in the spotlight this week. It was just released on DVD and Blu-Ray this Thursday and it picked up right where it left off, smashing records. Avatar became the best selling home video release of all time on the first day. It is estimated that over 4 million units were sold to consumers in just one day. Now I have to say that I did enjoy Avatar very much, but that is a lot of DVDs to sell in just one day. I will probably end up buying the movie and helping contribute to its record breaking cache.

One of the reasons that I am not completely enamored by the film anymore is because I recently saw Hurt Locker. This film gave Avatar a run for its money at the Academy Awards and for good reason. While I think Avatar was amazing, I feel Hurt Locker is the better of the two movies. It is more raw, using real actors and not computerized images with human voices. The only thing that Avatar lacked enough to lose out to Hurt Locker is the fact that the actors could almost hide behind their, well avatar.