masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2009)

This is an ultimate movie viewing experience. Cameron takes classic sci-fi literary tropes----A story from Cliffor Simak's story on using a native body/being to explore a hostile alien world (jupiter)--and Ursula leguin's smaller novels--the Word for World is Forest for example and such movies as the Last Samurai, Costner's Wolves epic-- as well as his own Aliens (the hovercraft gun ships--and the Rippley surrogate mother figure,the powerful and noble Latino woman) plus new and incredible computer technolgy to create his own living breathing world.
Only after seeing it and then thinking about it do all the pieces and influences become clear. While you are there you almost breathe it all in. You love the characters good and bad and you let it all come together. Suspend disbelief and let the nitpickers have their small minded fun as some already have. This works as did the cinema expansion of Where the Wild Things Are, and for this movie buff, that is what matters. But then again, Im a Terminator junkie (even loved the TV series) so here my biases in favor of the director-creator run deep....now for Avatar II.........