"Jim doesn't set out to make easy movies ever."
"Almost all of director James Cameron's noteworthy films, of course, were known for being massive contradictions in some way: macho, gun-worshipping shoot-em-ups that were actually all about mommy issues, a Schwarzenegger explosion-fest that was actually a romantic comedy, a Cold War underwater thriller that was ultimately all about giving peace a chance, the fact that he had his biggest success with what was easily his weakest film, and the odd happenstance that just as all of Hollywood was finally being completely taken over by the kind of sci-fi fantasy comic genre blockbusters he'd always championed for years, he...took the decade off to go and do Steve Zissou's job. Now he's back with Avatar, which tells the story of a war between a race of organically inclined nature-lovers and a mechanized army of profit-hungry exploiters—wherein the mech-happy baddies are played by the actual living people, while the eco-friendly good guys are largely created by 300 million dollars worth of computer-powered motion capture technology. Huh..."
