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The rip-offs go further than just Dances with Wolves. James Cameron has admitted that he was inspired by the John Carter of Mars series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Just a cartoon? JUST A CARTOON!?!?

What, pray tell, do you have against the fine art of animation, my good sir?

One rock and another rock, to smash up.

Actually, it will be films like Avatar that truly blur the line between what could be considered cartoon, and what can be considered real.

Of course, James Cameron is merely further developing what George Lucas has been using the Star Wars prequels to develop. I dunno whether George Lucas was the first to use virtual sets so extensively, but he did so quite well at times. Many times, I had trouble spotting the join. And doing a lot of work on virtual sets is nothing new. A 1970's Doctor Who story, Underworld, had to have many sequences done with CSO/chroma key/blue-screen/green-screen, albeit with varying results. But they didn't have enough budget to do full sets.

I don't think it's that simple, to be honest. I mean, Plan 9 From Outer Space is officially the Worst Movie Ever Made, but it's tremendously entertaining in its awfulness. Sometimes bad can be good precisely because it's bad, if that makes any sense

In a Cameron-related example, I can say without shame that I enjoy Aliens far more than I do Alien, even though I know that in terms of film-making technique, innovation and style, the latter is by far the better movie, in pretty much every respect.

For the Avatar fanatics, James Cameron is writing a prequel novel to Avatar.

I like the look of that!!
I enjoyed the film.

I'll wait for it to come out on DVD, then I might consider seeing it. I'm not all that excited to see it that much.