Avatar - a movie that cross overs it's genre - Science Fiction

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2010)

Avatar is a very rare movie, in that it sets the bar very high for future productions of this kind - using new technologies to bring alive a world that would only lie in the imagination. Enough praise cannot be given to James Cameron, in not only having an interesting storyline, but also to foresee what is required in the technology to make it truly come alive, so that a cinematic audience to take part in this very unusual and far flung fantasy world.
I have only seen the 2D movie - and have not experienced the full 3D version - which I probably never will, until 3D home television reaches the masses in an affordable version, that almost anyone can buy into - which would be around 2013-2015? What the technology can do, since Avatar - is to bring the past, present or future fully alive in true 3D glory, if there is a mega budget to finance it. Consider say - a re-enactment of what happened during 9-11, whether you produce a movie that ties to the Bush administration scenario, or one that takes to heart the conspiracy that surrounds 9-11 (by the US government officials) - it may be possible to bring it fully alive to the movie theatre screen. Of course I don't expect such a production to be made - to a story that is far bigger than the Kennedy Assassination. But any recreation of any conspiracy story can be made, in intricate detail - past, present or future.
Anyway Avatar is an amazing movie on so many different levels. We have had movies before that deal with - What is consciousness, What is being human all about - such as in "Altered States", "Brainstorm" and "Strange Days - "Avatar" carries on with this theme in it's unique way.
The science fiction elements remain in the background - the backdrop - and perhaps it is as much "Fantasy" as "Science Fiction" - with a wonderful heart, that deals/connects with our hearts and emotions as well. It of course deals with a native race, and a virgin world - in which humans invade and wish to take over, and so it is a Cowboys versus the Indians kind of movie, giving it a familiar feel - that the old is new again, dressed up in new clothes, with the same old themes present.