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Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver

This is the most visually amazing movie I have ever seen. You need to see the movie in theaters because I can't see it looking this good even on Blue-ray.

It's a great movie and you should go see it but I have issues with the plot. If you don't care about my rambling incomplete thoughts please read no further.

First, is Sam Worthington cornering the market on roles that involve human beings transformed into something else. In just one year he played a man that is transformed into a machine, in the really really bad Terminator and now he play a man who mind melds with an Avatar and becomes jakesully Na'Vi king. My comments really have nothing to do with the movie but it is weird to me that one guy is in two huge movies in the same year with a similar character and a similar plot. A society is under attack by technology and a person who bridges the gap between the worlds must save the society that is being attacked. Also is both movies the leader is martyred, in Terminator it is the annoying Christian Bale and in Avatar its Sigourney Weaver. She of Alien fame, is much better suited for the role. Did James Cameron suggest Sam to the Terminator people? Did he turn down Directing it but say since I directed the first Terminator we can use similar plots and save money on the writing? Its smart, people are going to both movies largely for the visual effects and not the plot.

Second, I have a problem with James Cameron putting the armed forces in the role of the bad guy in destroying Pandora. I have no problem with the thought that man destroys destroys things for its own financial gain. I live in New Jersey and look at refineries lining our rivers and shorelines. I'm sure these were beautiful areas two hundred years ago before oil companies moved in. But to suggest that the armed forces would assist big business and massacre a race of people for an undefined expensive metal is a bit much to me. I guess he's combining what happened to the Native Americans and the oil in the Middle East, but to me it left a bit of a sour taste.

These are my issues and I have many. See the movie you will enjoy it.