Smoking 150 years from now? I don't think so!

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2009)

Lead Ph.D. scientists will be smoking 150 years from now? No way, Jose! How much was Cameron pad to include smoking in his "epic" film? The references to "jarheads" were also insulting to the audience. Needless to say, I was turned off by the film after just the first few minutes. After about 45 minutes I finally felt wooed back, but by about the halfway to two-thirds mark, I was already wondering when the movie would end. I couldn't wait for someone (or some avatar) to toss rocks into those honking big propellers on the copters. Did Grace die because she was too weakened from smoking? If navigation gear can't function near Hometree, why does anything electronic function there? Why the reliance on New Zealand for the production... isn't CGI advanced enough now to create completely realistic foliage, 11 years after A Bugs Life did such a great job?