The first movie was awful, Dances With Wolves with aliens, but even worse than that sounds. Cameron wanted to shoe-horn Sigourney Weaver (and JP from grandma’s boy for some reason) into the movie needlessly, so he ruined what should’ve been the premise of Sam Worthington/ Jake being the prototype avatar. Instead, Cameron made Sigourney and JP into avatars also, which required a convoluted, mystical explanation for why Jake’s avatar was uniquely accepted into the blue Indian tribe. That’s just part of the problems.

Dune author Frank Herbert released a book in 1979 called The Jesus Incident . Here’s an excerpt of Wikipedia’s plot section: “The surface of the planet Pandora is 80% seas, and the sea is dominated by a type of kelp which appears to be sentient.” Cameron stole from Herbert the planet’s name, and worse he stole the concept of sentient plants incorporated into a planetary communications network. (edit: here’s another quote from the wiki plot: “As the book progresses, the reader discovers that the kelp, the hylighters, and other creatures of the planet appear to be linked into a large entity with a shared consciousness, Avata.”)

Cameron preaches that humans are bad and he doesn’t explain why they value “unobtainium” over some of the nodes of the sentient plant network. Btw, “unobtainium” was a joke cliche among the engineers and material scientists at a company where I once worked, long before Avatar came out. Anyway, in the Avatar universe, if unobtainium is what facilitates all the interstellar travel that is depicted, then it’s worth cutting down some telecom trees to obtain it.

Avatar 1 was unoriginal, preachy, and stupid. I don’t know about #2 but clearly I’m skeptical.

The first movie was awful, Dances With Wolves with aliens, but even worse than that sounds. Cameron wanted to shoe-horn Sigourney Weaver (and JP from grandma’s boy for some reason) into the movie needlessly, so he ruined what should’ve been the premise of Sam Worthington/ Jake being the prototype avatar. Instead, Cameron made Sigourney and JP into avatars also, which required a convoluted, mystical explanation for why Jake’s avatar was uniquely accepted into the blue Indian tribe. That’s just part of the problems.

Dune author Frank Herbert released a book in 1979 called The Jesus Incident . Here’s an excerpt of Wikipedia’s plot section: “The surface of the planet Pandora is 80% seas, and the sea is dominated by a type of kelp which appears to be sentient.” Cameron stole from Herbert the planet’s name, and worse he stole the concept of sentient plants incorporated into a planetary communications network.

Cameron preaches that humans are bad and he doesn’t explain why they value “unobtainium” over some of the nodes of the sentient plant network. Btw, “unobtainium” was a joke cliche among the engineers and material scientists at a company where I once worked, long before Avatar came out. Anyway, in the Avatar universe, if unobtainium is what facilitates all the interstellar travel that is depicted, then it’s worth cutting down some telecom trees to obtain it.

Avatar 1 was unoriginal, preachy, and stupid. I don’t know about #2 but clearly I’m skeptical.