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no on cares about the plot of avatar, and we're still surprised people bother seeing it.
People watch Avatar because of the bleeding edge CG. It's not a unique story. It never has been. It's Pocahontas. It's Dances with Wolves. It's Fern Gully. It's A Man Called Horse.
Theyre all similar stories. Foreign heroes saving the "savage" local population that can't defend themselves from the technology, while learning about them along the way.
The story isn't why people go to watch Avatar.
honestly idk why Cameron even bothers with a plot. he could just make a faux nature documentary. that seems to be the part he's interested in, and the best-executed and most interesting parts of the movies, but he seems to think nobody will watch it unless he shoves that all into the background and slaps a dumb action flick you've already seen a hundred times on top of it. and maybe he's right, idk