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I'll try to keep it as spoiler free as I can. Not that you won't be able to figure this movie out before all the characters are even introduced. James Cameron takes all the creativity that could have gone into developing a unique story in a fantastic setting and dumped it all into art direction and presentation. 15 minutes into it (and I'm being generous here), the whole movie could have been figured out by anyone with an IQ slightly higher than a fork's. There are no surprises. Some scenes can be called foreshadowing but they're really not. They're just cliches. Cameron doesn't even try to disguise it.Even in a children's film like Wall-E, Pixar gave kids enough credit by making the obvious villain something only most adults would be able to figure out right away had they seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. Did any one of you see the big red sensor in the captain's wheel and NOT think "oh shit, it's HAL" as soon as it started speaking? Didn't think so. BTW: if you really really like a girl that you've only just met for the first time, it's PERFECTLY okay to drag her unconscious body around, feel her up w/out permission and stow away in the trunk when her family takes her home. Cuz DATE RAPE AND STALKING IS CUTE! Fucking hate that movie... anyway, where was I? Oh, right.. Avatar.The Navis (big blue dudes/Native Americans/Iraqis.. take your pick) come with built in USB devices in their hair that they use to jack into creatures to ride them or into plants to communicate with them. Thank you James Cameron, for clarifying that they have a close bond with nature. If they can jack into the forest and talk to it, how the hell is it such a surprise when the bad guys show up to a place it took them THREE MONTHS OF BULLDOZING ACROSS THE FOREST to reach?There isn't a single creature in the movie that's not a derivative of something we already know. Wolves, horses, rhinos, dragons, etc. My favorites were a take on the shy plants, big red swirly red plants that shrink and shoot into the ground if touched and creatures that seemed like dragonflies that flew with glowing wings shaped like DaVinci's helicopter.