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Avatar (Fox) (2009)

The story’s hero is Jake Sully, an ex-Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he’s still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for and he ultimately finds it in the place he least expected- on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person’s consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora’s indigenous humanoid race, the Na’vi. This human-Na’vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na’vi but possesses the individual human’s thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an “avatar.” In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na’vi with the hope of enlisting their help – or at least their acquiescence -- in mining the ore. A beautiful Na’vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake’s life – reluctantly – because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na’vi’s unspoiled world. As Jake’s relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na’vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.

Avatar: Another History Maker?

MOVIES | Apr 24, 2007 | Comments () | Recommended ()

While it has been one of Hollywood's worst-kept secrets for years, the press has only recently gotten around to reporting and discussing James Cameron's attempts to convert theatres to 3-D – with aspirations of directing only 3-D…

Cameron's Avatar Poised to Revolutize Film ... or Not

MOVIES | Apr 08, 2007 | Comments () | Recommended ()

I wrote recently about how 300 has moved film into a new artistic realm, and now I'm hearing whispers around the Net about James Cameron's latest project, Avatar, which sounds like it'll make 300 look like a crayon sketch.

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Big Hitter: 2012, Avatar's Budget, Seann William Scott, and a Seattle New Moon Contest

MOVIES | Nov 09, 2009 | Comments () | Recommended ()

What I'm Seeing This Week
2012, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Youth in Revolt. I'm oddly excited for all three of these films, though for wildly divergent reasons. 2012 looks to be either a heap of fun or an absolute disaster (which…

About That New Avatar Footage ...

MOVIES | Oct 25, 2009 | Comments () | Recommended ()

After a disastrous teaser release and a poorly received preview day at select IMAX theaters earlier this year, the excited buzz on James Cameron's Avatar dimmed significantly. Early reports from filmmakers and insiders who had…

Blu-ray Review: Avatar

MOVIES | Apr 30, 2010 | Comments () | Recommended ()

James Cameron doesn't make bad movies, but rather makes entertaining movies, producing some of the most entertaining movies ever made. Beneath all the action and the special effects that have dominated his films, from The…

Is James Cameron's Avatar the Next Frontier in Filmmaking?

MOVIES | Dec 03, 2008 | Comments () | Recommended ()

James Cameron has spent the last few years working on underwater documentaries, but his last feature broke records that still stand, the blockbuster to end blockbusters: Titanic.

Now, Cameron is heading back to the multiplex…

Avatar Is the All-Time Box-Office Champ. What Now?

MOVIES | Feb 10, 2010 | Comments () | Recommended ()

In August 2008, when The Dark Knight was shattering one box-office record after another, I wrote a piece for this website entitled: "Can Dark Knight Overtake Titanic? Short Answer: No." I was right about that, but I was wrong…

Why the Academy Shouldn't Waste a Best Picture Nomination on Avatar

MOVIES | Jan 07, 2010 | Comments () | Recommended ()

It's that time of year again where everyone is excited to start talking about the Oscar race. Top 10 lists have been compiled, critics' awards have been handed out, and prominent entertainment writers have begun to make fearless…

Avatar: Laremy vs. Dre

MOVIES | Jan 05, 2010 | Comments () | Recommended ()

Two of our writers recently took in a very buzzy film, Avatar. As usual both Dre and Laremy were placed in soundproof chambers (so they didn't fight) and asked to take their best shot at the following ten questions.

Did you love Av…

Life Lessons from Avatar

MOVIES | Dec 30, 2009 | Comments () | Recommended ()

Editor's Note: If you haven't seen Avatar, please note, spoiler alert!

Arguably every movie has a message, a message that includes invaluable life lessons if we only look and listen close enough. Here are a few of Avatar's:

It's…