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An Avatar in the Real World 152.0

Posted by m beduya on December 22, 2009 · 1 Comment

Cameron’s fantasy and Ben Okri’s reality James Cameron’s film treatment of Avatar is a visual delight! Yet the plot itself is as old as man – one nation uses superior technology to attempt economic expansion by conquest and the other is saved by a parachuting messiah – for this movie, a cryonics-delivered American, ex-marine. The [...]

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