While everyone hits their butts off watching A Christmas Carol or a rerun of Home Alone, my friends and I (and possibly thousands of others worldwide) chose to watch the critically-acclaimed sci-fi movie we call Avatar. Months ago I mistook Avatar for The Last Airbender. Now there’s one huge difference.
Avatar is a film written and directed by Titanic’s James Cameron and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaņa, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.
Worthington plays the crippled marine, named Jake, who took his brother’s place in the Avatar project and Saldaņa plays the na’vi princess Neytiri. I won’t talk about the plot too much. Avatar is all about humans trying to “steal” away the ecosystem of the na’vi’s because of some precious mineral underneath their terrain. In an effort to reach their goal (more like Machiavellian strategy?) they ended up destroying forcefully the na’vi’s environment. The film ended with Jake siding with the na’vi’s and forcing the humans to return to Earth. (If you don’t understand the terms and want to get some spoiler, head here). Continue reading
