Yesterday, I watched Avatar again. The first time is 3D film in the theater, and this time I see it HD movies on my iPad 2. With the 1024*768 high resolution and the 9.7 inch IPS display, I am impressive iPad is not weaker than 3D. Now, let’s talk about the film.

If you know a little about American history, you may find Avatar to be a cinematized retelling of the plight of native Indian people driven away from their ancestral lands 400 years ago.

In the movie the story occurs in the year 2154. A marine named Jake is dispatched to a faraway planet called Pandora where lives blue-skinned Na'vi people and hosts a precious matter, which a greedy company head covets. In order to win Na'vi people's trust and then convince them to decamp, Jake transfers his spirit into a remotely controlled Na'vi body, called an avatar.

But as Jake mingles with the Na'vi People, he gradually develops a close bond with the locals and falls love into a Na'vi girl. He begins to realize the thought of human is very greedy and will destroy Pandora planet. He trys to persuade the leader to give up the aggression but failed. Finally he decides to stand on their side against the human threat.

I believe that everyone who see the film is like me, were thrilled and amazed at the jaw-dropping visual feast it offered. The most impressive sense is the love story between him and the Na'vi girl and the spectacular war.

Despite switching frequently between CGI and a real life cast, the movie doesn't discomfort its audience at all, thanks to a series of technological breakthroughs, a well-known trademark of James Cameron, the film's director.

However, at three hours running time, the plot heavy movie can prove difficult to sit through without yawning. Having said that, I don't think the story of Avatar is any worse than other Hollywood sci-fi epics. A huge leap in techniques with Avatar fails to drag the storytelling to a higher level. This may suggest that a fundamental change in storytelling is far more arduous than creating cutting-edge material, and at the same time it may also prove that a refreshing story is more important.

Even James Cameron himself has said in an interview with Newsweek that movies are about storytelling, and humans playing humans.

If Avatar impacts you more on the physical side, we have to expect Cameron's future movies will both feast our eyes and touch our hearts. In addition, if you get an iPad/iPad 2, you are no need to spend your hard-earned money to go to theater for your favorite movies, just see free movies online for iPad. You can go to see free ipad movies on Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, etc.