New Avatar (James Cameron, not the Air Bender) Trailer

Because it is the Friday before you go out and trick or treat or watch a terrible movie in theatres, you'll most likely be met with the new Avatar trailer. I'll spoil it for you now if you don't want to have your soul taken from you (it makes things more convenient to do it from your comfortable chair/sofa/hot tub).

It has come to my attention that due to the crappy formatting of my blog, you may be missing out on the right quarter of the screen. You can watch it here if you choose to do so.

So ... yeah. It may look awesome... but the story and dialogue are full of shit.

• "You are not on Kansas anymore!"
• Big evil company wants expensive rock. Unfortunately, poor primitive, good natured tribe lives on top of the gold mine. OHHH NOOOEESS!
• "Those savages are threatening our whole operation!"
• The handicapped look for a way to prove themselves/look for a way to be normal again before the "accident"
• "You get me what I need, I'll see to it you get your legs back."
• "Just relax and let your mind go blank; shouldn't be too hard for you" OHHHHH social jab at the military for being dumb!

Anyways, I could go on, but I stopped about there with the trailer. What's sad, is I actually think that Transformers 2 had a more original plot and better graphics. And that's saying something right there.

Now, you can call me out for being a hater and all that, but I expected a lot more from James Cameron. He was, in my opinion, an envelope pusher when it came to visual effects and usually had a pretty decent story line to hold up when the effects couldn't. He clearly drops the ball in both categories.

Other cliche's that make me mad about this movie:

Some people are just evil for the sake of being evil - Really? Corporations aren't entirely bad. They do provide the computer you're using to read this, make the coffee you drink, make the clothes you wear. Unless you live in an amish-like community where literally everything is made by and for you, you have to rely on big corporations to compete and gain your consumerism. That's just how things are. Can they be evil? Sure, but NOT EVERY COMPANY. IN EVERY MOVIE. EVER. It's just very easy to portray something like that and it's completely overused. I'd like to see a movie where a corporation was the only thing separating people from the brink of apocalypse. If there are, then please feel free to send'em my way and I'll netflix them.

The military is full of gun-toting dumb jocks - I've had quite a few friends in the military and it always makes me mad when any branch is portrayed as this. Everyone I've met has been incredibly caring, compassionate, and reasonably intelligent. The people that are the dumb gun-toting jocks are people that are Wannabe military types that have no idea what it's really like or were discharged for being an impairment to the branch. Granted, there are films out there that don't portray the military as this, and for that, I'm glad that it's a stereotype that isn't so prevalent.

Blood for oil/money/precious metals - Precious Metals should be a female hard rock band. Just sayin. Anyways, this kind of runs along the point of evil corporations, but on a more politically charged level. It's an easy point to make that polarizes issues and I feel even the left is bored with the concept. I've never seen a so-called epic movie put it so bluntly as to have someone specifically state their direct objective. At least be more coy with the idea and have it secretly revealed as to what they were really after. Have it be about these "Avatars" secretly infiltrating them, becoming friends with them, only to be after their cool stones this entire time. Even have it only from the aliens point of view. Or reverse it and have the aliens invading us, hunting after our precious earth, after creating human like avatars. And have a bad ass guy with a mullet lead the charge against these invaders, but have no one believe him. I think I just wrote the script for They Live.

Guy alienated by home, feels more at home with aliens - Be they illegal or extraterrestrial, this was already done, to a much better extent with Gran Torino and to a much lower extent Area 51.

I guess the reason I give crappier movies a pass and not Avatar for portraying so called cliches is because Avatar does it, thinking that it's a new idea in the form of over priced computer puppets and not tongue in cheek campy fun (although, I don't condone the watching of Area 51).

Also, Avatar supports furries. If you like this movie, you like furries. Thus, concluding my argument and makes me right.