If you haven't checked out the trailer to writer-director James Cameron's ("Aliens," "Terminator") space epic "Avatar," view it here via IGN.
The film stars Sigourney Weaver (you better know who she is), Zoe Saldana ("Star Trek") and Sam Worthington ("Terminator Salvation," the upcoming "Clash of the Titans")
This innovative 'motion-capture' and live-action project was more than 10 years in the making and opens in December.
You've heard the buzz about this movie -- what do you think?
Okay, this is what I'm getting from Mr. Cameron's latest. Disabled main character is part of a group of Phased Plasma Rifle-toting Starship Troopers who kidnap an extraterrestrial and basically colonize his body so that said main character can walk. Then while in the stolen body, he lives among these in-tune-with-nature "primitives", realizes that they're all right for a bunch of guys with blue skin, snatches up one of their exotic honeys, and becomes "one of them."
This smacks of the same old tired Tarzan/Last Samurai premise of the main character (guess what color he is) "going native" and being the savior of the poor dark-skinned folk and getting to bed their women as an added incentive. It's just this time instead of Africans or Native Americans or Australian Aborigines, et cetera, it's blue-skinned extraterrestrials. But, not to worry. We all know that there will be enough CGI and 3-D visual phantasmagoria in this film to keep movigoers good and distracted from the "Dances with Aliens" plot.
Am I reading too much into it? Lighten up, Lex. It's only a movie, right? Yeah, but so is T2 and in that movie Cameron made a Negro responsible for the end of the world.