Thanks to BSC Review for pointing out this ten minute Avatar featurette.
Here is why I’m showing up for Avatar. It is because, most of the time, Jim Cameron delivers. He delivers on action for a certainty. But he also delivers on story, whether it has its moments of cornball dialogue or not (you can count on it). Avatar will have to be a good story to work. The dazzling effects on their own will not cut it with audiences. If anyone knows this, Cameron does. I belong to the group of people who prefer the action scenes in Titanic to the story. Once the ship hits the iceberg the movie starts for me. In Aliens, once the team finds themselves having to defend against the aliens with Sigourney Weaver driving the truck – that’s when the movie starts. In T2, once they rescue Linda Hamilton from the asylum, the movie starts.