Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> But the story was so cliched

  Avatar has been compared to Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, Ferngully,
The Last Samurai and even Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but In Space. So yeah,
it's not like it's the most original and innovative story in existence.

  One would think that a director as talented as James Cameron would read
his own script and say "hmm, this needs a bit more of originality rather
than reusing the same ideas as already used in countless other flicks".
Just because you move the plot to Space doesn't make it original.

  (Of course there's nothing wrong in rehashing old ideas. It's not like
eg. Terminator 2 would be the most original movie ever created (being a
sequel and all), but its execution was so stunningly superb, that it doesn't
matter. Avatar was visually stunning but had little else going.)

  I have seen much worse movies in terms of scripting, though. Much, much
worse.

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