BMX’s Avatar Preview

Being the IAA that I am (Innovative African American), good ol’ BMX has decided to write a anticipated film review of Avatar the movie airing this Friday Dec 18th starring Jake Sully. This is James Cameron’s return to Film, which is highly anticipated because of his legacy of Aliens and Terminator to boot. BMX is extremely solid on this new addition to the world of Sci-Fi. Cameron’s Request for Sci-Fi fans and all audiences alike to suspend all belief is obvious in the trailers and snippets seen to date, so with that in mind lets run this flick through the BMX critique pre opening and see if this brotha’s prophecies are accurate.

Lets start with the story some humans, mostly white land on a planet they call Pandora looking for a precious material that resides in and around where the natives known as Na’vi call home. In the classic Cameron Style the humans are driven in a corporate like mindset bent on acquisition of profit “ by any means necessary “(a gross misinterpretation of black leader) and plan to infiltrate the aliens tribe by disguising themselves as 12 foot tall cat people that live in trees. Ok here’s Bradley’s take on this. Cameron encompassed a classic tale of colonialzation and the native, hate to say it but the undertones are high like in a similar movie of this year, District 9 (which is bomb ass awesome). The alien or visibly different creature is the focus of oppression, domination and control. I’ve noticed this happening more often in recent sci-fi. The racial undertones (oh I hit the nerve now!) are centered around uncanny cat people, chucking spears from the planet which name means chaos, sounds like a reinterpretation of my neighborhood, or a specific continent my people hail from. Secondly this precious mineral why its always something so precious? In fact and fiction through the ages its always been that; Spanish –gold, English –diamonds, French –Opium, this recurring plot was seen in D9 with alien technology. Funny whites in sci-fi movies always do one thing, take or be taken. If we reverse this plot it would be boring ass cat people abducting humans.

Now the way Cameron spices things up is in the fact humans can not breathe on the planet. A vital part of life so they decide to infiltrate by using an “avatar “, where the movie gets its name that’s short for a movable icon representing a person or in this case a big ass cat person. I like the idea, it’s definitely fantasy and I would like to see how Cameron deals with the science behind this. Thanks to Weta for the visuals on the whole process I feel that this may be the key component to this film.  The idea that the human in an avatar body is sent to infiltrate and move out the Na’vi smells a little like Dances with Wolves and we all know that Waterworld and the Postman sucked (sorry Mr. Costner) and Bradley isn’t saying this cause brothers have large water issues or only like the Postman once a month. So far I think this movie is going to be a breath taking spectacle of CGI atop a senseless slow titanic like creep toward and inevitable battle, mixed in with a love story which in my opinion is going to suck. The main female Na’vi opposite Jake is played by Zoe Saldana, that’s right she played Uhura 2009 remake of Star Trek and is so fine, but all her sexy is covered by a CGI cat body, I’m sorry James, Mr. Cameron, JJ you could have just put her on screen bare booty naked with a spear and necklace had her run through the forest for two hours to some cool ambient music and created the greatest movie ever. But instead you took the hard workin sister and turned her into a digitally painted blue cat lady.

That’s all I can get from the trailers and snippets so far, lets hope the whole film will be more than a spectacle, an event worthy of the being held in the Cameron legacy of SCIFI. This is Bradley Malcolm Xavier X to the Xtreme giving you his personal preview of Avatar by James Cameron.