Watched the eighth episode of 24 season 8 last night. And promptly fell asleep. I woke up after a little while, only to find Her, who absolutely LOVES 24, fast asleep.

First of all, I remember you getting stabbed last week, Jack. In the belly. With a knife. Before the Russians took you away.

Now they’re torturing you, suspended by your wrists from a ceiling pipe, feet half-a-metre from the floor. You’re taking electric shocks to your bleeding knife-wound in the belly, and still refusing to talk. Awesome!

Wait a minute, you’ve knocked this guy out with your legs? Holy crap, now you’ve jiggled up and down until the pipe has dislodged and you free yourself? Oh wait, he’s getting up, you rush into action and break his kneck? Goddamn, Jack.

Now you’re up, gun in hand, ducking and diving through a firefight that you INEVITABLY win?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

We’re not ten years old, Jack. This stupid shit just doesn’t cut it anymore. Show us a little respect, goddamnit.

I’m so bored. Please stop it, stop it now. Put him out of his misery.

24 is boring.

The Book of Eli. Starring Denzel Washington as a pilgrim walking across a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland of thirst and despair.

In his possession a precious book, the last of its kind, a book sought far and wide by murderous bandits, a book coveted by a power-hungry madman.

The book? A bible! The “walker”? Booooooring. The action sequences? Stilted. The storyline? Formulaic.

And then we find … the book is in braille. All along, Denzel was blind. Blind I say!

It’s I Am Legend without the dog.

If a movie features blue people, is it called a blue movie? I’ll explain.

We started watching James Cameron’s Avatar after midnight, and I thought Minnie would (as usual) sleep after a few minutes.

Not. A. Chance.

Instead of the normal yawn-rollover-yawn-sleep routine, she was all over the place, covering her eyes, cheering, screaming, laughing, ooohing and aaahing for two and a half hours – with good reason.

I’ve watched many of this year’s films, and I have to say  Avatar comes pretty high in the ranking. It’s exciting, it’s gutting, it’s sad, happy, revolutionary … awesome.

It’s quite hard-hitting historically, with some overt nationalism, and a not-at-all-subtle excoriation of white settler behaviour in America. In fact, it could be used as a critique of Imperialism in general, but the fate of native Americans in particular is front and center.

But it isn’t the politics of the film that got me, it’s the sheer scale of it. Cameron has form in making big films with loads of CGI, having done the amazing Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I can tell you he’s having a great innings.

This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, and for this year’s films, maybe only The Hurt Locker was better, with Inglorious Basterds and The Blind Side coming in a close third and fourth respectively.

Go see Avatar – you won’t regret it.