The big three and a half minute trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar is up over at Yahoo. It’s definitely more exciting than the teaser trailer, but I remain incredibly ambivalent about the cliched story tropes that have been told, on film no less, countless times. It’s Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai and so many others, but in space. It appears to be a very standard story of a select few characters changing sides when they realize their own is completely in the wrong. Hopefully Cameron has some surprises up his sleeve for the story.
James Cameron wrote and directed the film, his first narrative work since Titanic. It stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder and Dileep Rao.
Avatar will be released on December 18th.
