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

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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main character paralyzed

[hansoloaf]

one thing that I get from the synopsis and trailer is that there's this main character that is paralyzed and is linked to a new hybrid alien life form through the mind (telepathy I guess).

If they have this type of technology - why not just cure the paralysis. So it smells like a plot hole that the director is ignoring in the pursuit of a cinematic vision.

I'll still watch it just out of curiosity.

Re:Heaven's Gate?

[Facegarden]

Yeah, people seriously need to think when they make references to an almost 30 year old movie that no one liked (and therefore fewer remember) that has the same name as a 12 year old mass suicide, which many more people remember.

Nerds need to get out sometimes, they forget that there is a real world, and that's what most people are familiar with.
-Taylor