The Mounting Evidence That Avatar Will Suck, Part 1S  For over a
decade, the world has waited for James Cameron's follow up to
Titanic. But now that Avatar has at last arrived how are we to
prepare ourselves for the fact that it might be godawful?  There
is little more dangerous than a director pursuing his dream
project. One thinks of such classic catastrophes as Coppola's
One From the Heart, Scorsese's New York, New York or Spielberg's
1941. A director with too much freedom and a dream can lead to
Citizen Kane or it can lead to The Phantom Menace. And thus far,
all available signs point down the Phantom Menace path.  For
starters, as has been widely commented upon, there are the
distressingly Jar Jar Binks-like aliens which populate the
planet where the film is set. There is the obsession with
technology and its, um, various uses.  And then in the little
glimpses we've seen such as the clip below, there are those
nagging hints of all those things that made Titatnic so
cringeworthy when it wasn't busy drowni