In Avatar, the medium eclipses the message

Avatar is a runaway success apparently because of its cutting-edge technology, but it's not immediately clear whether that spells a boon or a bane for the future of film | IslamOnline.net

Like other films by James Cameron (of Titanic and Terminator), Avatar strives to please most everyone in the movie-going crowd: a tale of an epic struggle of "noble savages" against the much more technologically advanced, but arrogant and short-sighted, invaders from Earth, with a plot sprinkled with a love story, a journey of self-discovery, a greedy corporation, and plenty of not-so-subtle pro-environment and anti-Iraq war references.