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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turtlejay" data-source="post: 5059550" data-attributes="member: 70267">I tease the film about being derivative, but don't we tell the same seven stories over and over again?  Romeo and Juliet was just another romantic tragedy when it was new, but we still love West Side Story because it was told *well*.Avatar was told well, in that the universe it created is immersive and beautiful.  The characters may be a bit shallow.  The plot may be thin.  As whole it *succeeds* because of or in spite of it's parts.I liked the world created, and would have given the movie a 9 or 10 if I felt it was a little more internally consistent.  I bow to the need to make the Na'vi more humanlike as a storytelling tool.  If they had six legs and breathed through their necks like the *rest* of the fauna in the world, I doubt the movie would be grossing over a billion dollars right now.The tiny amount of digging I've done online seems to indicate that earlier drafts of the movie were more technical (hard sci fi!).  While I think a movie like that is right up my alley, James Cameron obviously knows the world's moviegoer, because this 'sci fi' movie is as soft as they come, from Unobtanium to entirely glossed over technologies (how did they get to Alpha Centauri in such a short time?  Cryosleep, growing an alien hybrid clone?).  I see rumors of a sequel, here's hoping they up the sci fi a bit.  For me?  Please?Jay</blockquote>