AVATAR, one of the biggest films in the history of cinema, begins a run at Living Room Theaters this Friday, February 12! AVATAR screens in 3D using a technology called XpanD that is superior to
Real 3D. Living Room Theaters is the only venue in Portland that uses this technology. You can read an article about XpanD in the Oregonian HERE.
AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. James Cameron, the Oscar- winning director of Titanic, first conceived the film 15 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of production, AVATAR, a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film, disappears into the emotion of the character and the sweep of the story.
We enter the alien world through the eyes of Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, lake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where corporations are mining a rare mineral that is the Key to solving Earth’s energy crisis. Because the atmosphere of Pandora is toxic, they have created the Avatar Program, in which human “derives” have their consciousness linked to an avatar, a remotely- controlled biological body that can survive in the lethal air. These avatar are genetically engineered hybrids of human DNA mixed with DNA from the native of Pandora…the Navi.
Reborn in his avatar form, Jake can walk again. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Navi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Navi female, Neytiri, saves Jake’s life, and this change everything. Jake is taken in by her clan, and learns to become one of them, which involves many test and adventure . As Jake’s relationship with his reluctant teacher Neytiri deepens, he learns to respect the Navi way and Finally takes his place a, among them. Soon he will face the ultimate test as he leads them in an epic battle that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.