There's a glow-in-the-dark forest in James Cameron's 'Avatar'
We might as well say it now: the only reason this film got made was probably because of the Hollywood clout of its director James Cameron. As I started to fall asleep next to my sister at the Globe cinema in downtown Port of Spain (not the ideal spot to slumber, many will vouch) I started to think of why anyone would want to make this film, besides for the obvious money-making potential. Avatar follows the coming of age of its protagonist Jake Sully (played by Sam Worthington). It's sometime in the future and Jake's twin brother Tom has just died. Because Jake has the same genome as his dead brother, he can step into Tom's shoes in an ongoing project on a planet called Pandora. Sigh. Apparently, on Pandora, humans are infiltrating an native race called the Na'avi by--get this--plugging themselves (apparently via broadband) into alien-looking flesh suits called avatars. What then follows is one of the most droll science-fiction films of all time, complete with all the ...