Went to the midnight showing with a group of friends and we were ALL just amazed. It really is a revolutionary film, at least from a technical standpoint. I think it marks the next great leap forward in filmmaking. You HAVE to watch it in 3D and in fact it made me feel like buying a 3D TV at some point once they become available (and affordable). And I'd never really been that sold on 3D in the living room but after watching Avatar, I thought, how can I go back to watching a normal Blu-Ray of this?
There wasn't a moment in the film where I felt the Na'Vi weren't real, living, breathing characters. The facial expressions and animations are just incredible.
For geeks like us I think it's a great time to be alive!