QUOTE(theunholyone @ Oct 28 2009, 11:15 PM)
Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine (Sam Worthington) who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. This is from a scene early on where Worthington enters a lab and meets his Avatar for the first time and goes through the procedure to integrate his mind into it. The only hint I’ll give you about the rest of the movie is that most of it follows Jake Sully (seen above) as this other creature on the planet of Pandora.
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/avata...ational-trailerMinding my own business last night watching "House", highly popular show with expensive ad time. An entire commercial break was filled with the longest ad for a movie I have ever witnessed. Just visited the official web site and found the Avatar folks have spared no expense to enlighten me that Playstation, Xbox, Wii, DS, iphone, Twitter, official toys, etc. are all set to go. Must give the marketing effort an A+. My fear is that the producers may have forgotten that great science fiction movies need the same thing that great comedies, great dramas, i.e., great movies in general need: a great story. Attacking natives to get at valuable minerals sounds like Al Gore watching "Congo" on LSD and being named executive producer of "Avatar" and Jane Goodall being hired to ensure that no Avatars were harmed during the filming of the movie. Maybe Kurt Russell will make a cameo appearance allowing Todd3465 to wipe out just a few more mercenaries before returning to his home planet. Hope I am wrong and I will watch the film. But my fear is that once again, film makers have fallen in love with computer graphics and forgotten about the movie.
