He might want to make sure that Avatar isn't a half-billion dollar stinkbomb before he proceeds with the sequels.

subby: Subby's all for highlighting the musical genius that is Coolio, but he doesn't know how that song is going to be made into a movie

Pulls out some old Lakeside vinyl, drops the needle and asks whelpmitter to get off his lawn.

MIguy: Saw Avatar the other night and it's just plain jaw dropping. The dialogue is cheesy at times and the story is nothing new but the visuals and 3D are like nothing ever put on screen before.

How do you see it in 3D? Does it have to be at a theatre set up for it, or do you get glasses?

You know Who else had a take on Fantastic Voyage?

You know Stew else...

d000fus: vabeard: Unless Rachel Welch is available for the remake of "Fantastic Voyage", there is no need to go any further.

Ooooh! So close yet so far.

It's Raquel Welch, not Rachel

Donnie Brasco: Forget about it is like if you agree with someone, you know, like Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it.

Well, apparently Ebert loved it. (new window) Yet, his review makes it obvious how much the movie is full of overwrought environmentalist and anti-colonialist cliches: "The Na'vi survive on this planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans." Yeah, like we haven't seen this trope repeated a million times in a million different movies. Honestly, what the hell is wrong with him?

SnakeMan: Well, apparently Ebert loved it. (new window) Yet, his review makes it obvious how much the movie is full of overwrought environmentalist and anti-colonialist cliches: "The Na'vi survive on this planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans." Yeah, like we haven't seen this trope repeated a million times in a million different movies. Honestly, what the hell is wrong with him?

There's repeating a theme, and then there's REPEATING A THEME IN HUGE NEON LETTERS AND SLAMMING IT INTO YOUR AUDIENCES FACE WITH THE SUBTLETY OF A 10-MEGATON NUCLEAR BLAST, if you get what I mean.

Based only on trailers and commercials, as far as I can see, Cameron has taken every tired old dead cliche available and beaten it into hamburger. The most recent, with the crusty old war sergeant telling his space marines "My job is to keep you alive...I will not succeed with all of you," is so WWII-battle tested I had to check it was "Avatar" and not "Patton."

Between the Good Natives using arrows and spears and riding beautiful flying horse dragons, and the Bad (or at least Equivocal) Marines using power armor and VTOLs and supporting the Evil Industrial Empire, if it was any more black and white, it would be, well, black and white.

It's good to see that the color blue isn't absent. It wouldn't be a Cameron film without it.

Avatar's trailers really do look horrible, but so did The Hangover's trailers, and that movie was one of the best I've seen all year. So, I'll wait until a few friends have seen it and go from there.

Honestly though, it looks similar to Princess Mononoke', and that's not a bad thing...but I don't just want to see an imitation of a good movie, I want to see a good movie.

Klippoklondike: Avatar's trailers really do look horrible, but so did The Hangover's trailers, and that movie was one of the best I've seen all year. So, I'll wait until a few friends have seen it and go from there.

Honestly though, it looks similar to Princess Mononoke', and that's not a bad thing...but I don't just want to see an imitation of a good movie, I want to see a good movie.

Don't wait, if you think you might see it, see it now. If it sucks, you'll know it because you saw it, not because some critic convinced you. If the critics start gushing over how great it is, you won't go into it with high expectations that will be next to impossible to meet. If it's just an ok movie, not bad, but nothing spectacular, you'll still might enjoy it because you had no real expectations going in.

/Probably won't follow my own advice.