In the 1980′s a young James Cameron was fairly unknown and came up with the idea of a movie that would make his name, even though his agent at the time said the idea for “The Terminator” was a bad idea.

James Cameron fired his agent and got to writing a film which nearly everyone has heard of or at least seen since it was first released back in 1984.

For me The Terminator was one of those movies that I can enjoy over and over again, although can make you severely cross-eyed if you think too much about the time travel aspect of the film,  I can’t really put my finger on what the appeal is, maybe it the time travel side of the story, being a fan of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells stories with time travel in them do have me intrigued.

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Yes it’s true, the James Cameron’s masterpiece that is Avatar is hitting our cinema screens yet again!

This time Avatar has been released as a Special Edition with eight minutes of extra footage and also some new creatures have been introduced to the movie and hits the big 3D screens on August 27th.

James Cameron is no stranger to the Special Edition genre, remember Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2. But those films were released with their Special Editions on DVD, this time we get the Special Edition in the cinema and yes, still in its 3D glory, actually it’s exclusively in 3D sorry 2D only cinemas, looks like you’ll have to miss out on this one.

The question on everyone’s lips though, is even if the film does have that extra 8 minutes of footage and we do get to see that little bit more of Pandora, is it worth the money to spend 170 minutes on some cinema seats to see the majority of a film that you have already seen?

For those that haven’t seen the original cut of the film yet in 3D the answer is probably, yes. To those that have already seen the film, maybe no, but to the fans of the movie, such as myself the answer is a 100%, yes!

I do like Avatar, my God, I’ve seen it that many times and all in 3D and the chance to see a little more of Pandora and perhaps the hope of opening up the characters a tad more with 8 minutes of extra footage, does intrigue me, plus the fact that my local cinema @ScalaPrestatyn will be showing the Special Edition just entices me more to see it again.

So if you have seen Avatar 3D already, will you go and see Avatar: Special Edition?

And just to whet your appetite a bit more I’m leaving you with the trailer for the Special Edition, it’s short, but enjoy