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Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wilburies-playing-end-of-the-line dept.

brumgrunt writes "Den Of Geek wonders if James Cameron's Avatar is heading for a fall, and if it will even be a science fiction film, off the back of the previews shown last week. It writes: 'It seems in Avatar that all this gee-whiz science is merely there to draw the "old crowd" in and provide some kind of rationale for a brightly-coloured fantasy-world which reflects the most emetic of the artwork plastered over teenage girls' MySpace pages.'"

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  1. Re:Only On Slashdot by jgtg32a · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only reason they're young women and not little girls is because he would be burned at the stake, if he tried it