How this will play in the States, which is engaged in two foreign disputes вЂ“ or colonial adventures if you like, depending on your politics вЂ“ right now is a mystery. There is a definite Vietnam analogy as a technologically superior military force gets their butts kicked by an inferior opponent. Jake Sully (played by Sam Worthington, whom audiences saw earlier this year in Terminator Salvation and will get to see again in next yearвЂ™s Clash of the Titans remake) is a human from Earth who goes native and helps the blue-skinned aliens defend their world against his own people. As any historian well you: the Maxim machinegun was more than an equalizer when it came the various sad colonial spats throughout our civilizationвЂ™s history. After all, the technologically inferior NaвЂ™vi with their bows and arrows may be superior in numbers, but the humans with their high-tech gunships, exoskeletal robots, machineguns and the like, seriously outgun them. This means that a showdown is looming: if the NaвЂ™vi canвЂ™t be convinced to move, then they will be forced to relocate.

вЂњWe have nothing they want,вЂќ as one human character laments. Yup, Pandora may be an extremely hostile planet populated by all kinds of nasty, vicious beasties, but the NaвЂ™vi has involved into a bunch of tree-hugging, New Age-y hippy types who arenвЂ™t about to sell their prime real estate for a string of beads or even blue jeans and Coca Cola. The only problem is that a tribe of primitive aliens known as the NaвЂ™vi are living right on top of the richest deposit of the mineral вЂ“ and they wonвЂ™t budge! In the distant future an alien world called Pandora is the only source for an extremely rare mineral known as unobtainium (whoever gave it that name must have seen 2003вЂ™s kooky science fiction disaster movie, The Core). Bone Burnett called us in his song, are the alien invaders. It is a movie in which we, the humans from Earth as T. but with tall blue aliens instead of Native Americans. Cameron canвЂ™t even resist brining in a smarmy corporate yuppie that is a dead ringer for Burke, the smarmy corporate yuppie from Aliens.

Then there are the moments of self-plagiarism: the military hardware will be familiar to anyone who has seen Terminator (those heli-flyers) and Aliens (the colonial marines and exoskeletal suits). Even those mountains hanging in mid-air are a clichГ©d anime staple. The lizard-flying thing started with Anne McCaffreyвЂ™s Dragonriders of Pern decades ago. Those blue-skinned aliens (already disparagingly referred to as Smurfs by some SF fans) are a staple of clichГ©d fantasy art. Much in Avatar is familiar, which is why the movieвЂ™s first trailer was met with such disappointment in some quarters earlier this year. In contrast Avatar is more like Star Wars, which cleverly mixed existing visual ideas such as the spaceships from 2001 with anything from MarvelвЂ™s Doctor Doom to DisneyвЂ™s Snow White. That said audiences who found 2001вЂ™s art movie aesthetics off-putting will enjoy Avatar much, much more. There is nothing in Avatar that is astoundingly original and fresh in the same way that 2001 was back in 1968 (a year before the moon landing). The movieвЂ™s movies influence can still be felt decades later in efforts such as Wall-E and, yes, even Avatar.

2001: A Space Odyssey practically reinvented the visual tropes of the science fiction genre вЂ“ it was a wholly original work that gave us workable spaceships and enigmatic alien presences instead of the flying hubcaps and green-skinned aliens that came before it. James Cameron promised audiences a 2001: A Space Odyssey for this generation, but Avatar is closer to Star Wars than 2001.

After all, Avatar, as you probably know by now, is the directorвЂ™s first movie in almost 12 years вЂ“ the directorвЂ™s first since a little movie you might have heard of called Titanic. However, like Phantom Menace and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull it cannot realistically live up to fan expectations as well as its own hype. Like The Abyss, Avatar is also a one of a kind experience. Films such as the first two Terminator movies, Aliens and, yes, even the flawed original theatrical cut of The Abyss, which was a one-of-a-kind experience. ДЄfter all, here is a truly visionary film-maker who has been behind some of science fiction cinemaвЂ™s most bona fide classics. It is no coincidence that director James Cameron shares the same initials with the other JC. STARRING: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, Matt GeraldДў009, 161 Minutes, Directed by: James Cameron

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